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beccaelizabeth8, Charley and C'rizz. And amnesia. Again. The Doctor is out of character on account of amnesia. Again.
... who sat down and decided this was his defining quality? I know we only have the one piece of TV canon and he was borked in the brain parts then, but really, did not one put the stories all side by side and think 'hmm, maybe our main character should in fact be our main character on a regular basis'?
Aside from that it's a pretty much Doctor Who shaped story, with some torture, and the 'noble sacrifice' kind of suicide (ugh). People turned into weapons for a war, unwelcome after the war, all locked in a prison and left there with a Bad Thing. Being hunted down and running around trying to figure it out, with a rousing round of We're Not Who We Are once they figure out the nature of the brain worm.
To start with I thought that dropping a bunch of psychics inside metal that blocks their power would make the power bounce around and turn into a Scary Thing that tears bits of memories off and mostly reflects people, so if they're scared and angry then they get that amplified and it all goes wrong.
Also a good plot.
But instead it was made the same way everyone else's powers were, with a machine doing brain surgery, but from trying to take the powers away. So trying to make people powerless turns them into monsters? er...
It's a bit fuzzy in the message department because society hates and fears people that turn out to be quite actually scary. I mean, if the idea is to say that locking people up when you don't use them any more is kind of a suck thing, that's a moral. As it is it's more about how you probably shouldn't mess with people's brains because it makes them monsters. Which is less generally applicable. But very genre typical.
The background music is driving me nuts. Something about the balance is off. The Doctor is the quietest noise and the background doot doot doot is loud.
Nothing terrible or sexualised happened to Charley, she just ran around screaming a lot.
C'rizz wasn't notably evil in this one neither, with just a brief but interesting reference to picking up skills from someone he... probably 'saved'.
And the Doctor turned back into himself eventually, with bonus football references and a bit of 'never ever ever give up'.
So I don't hate this one or anything, it's just not very interesting neither.
... who sat down and decided this was his defining quality? I know we only have the one piece of TV canon and he was borked in the brain parts then, but really, did not one put the stories all side by side and think 'hmm, maybe our main character should in fact be our main character on a regular basis'?
Aside from that it's a pretty much Doctor Who shaped story, with some torture, and the 'noble sacrifice' kind of suicide (ugh). People turned into weapons for a war, unwelcome after the war, all locked in a prison and left there with a Bad Thing. Being hunted down and running around trying to figure it out, with a rousing round of We're Not Who We Are once they figure out the nature of the brain worm.
To start with I thought that dropping a bunch of psychics inside metal that blocks their power would make the power bounce around and turn into a Scary Thing that tears bits of memories off and mostly reflects people, so if they're scared and angry then they get that amplified and it all goes wrong.
Also a good plot.
But instead it was made the same way everyone else's powers were, with a machine doing brain surgery, but from trying to take the powers away. So trying to make people powerless turns them into monsters? er...
It's a bit fuzzy in the message department because society hates and fears people that turn out to be quite actually scary. I mean, if the idea is to say that locking people up when you don't use them any more is kind of a suck thing, that's a moral. As it is it's more about how you probably shouldn't mess with people's brains because it makes them monsters. Which is less generally applicable. But very genre typical.
The background music is driving me nuts. Something about the balance is off. The Doctor is the quietest noise and the background doot doot doot is loud.
Nothing terrible or sexualised happened to Charley, she just ran around screaming a lot.
C'rizz wasn't notably evil in this one neither, with just a brief but interesting reference to picking up skills from someone he... probably 'saved'.
And the Doctor turned back into himself eventually, with bonus football references and a bit of 'never ever ever give up'.
So I don't hate this one or anything, it's just not very interesting neither.
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Date: 2015-01-31 08:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-01-31 09:09 pm (UTC)In the audios I'm vaguely impressed by how many different ways and means and reasons they used to get rid of his memories. I mean, if he lost them once and went looking, that's one story arc, but he always gets them back before the end of the story and they have to do it to him again. Thinking up all those very slightly different things must have taken a while.