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beccaelizabethMemory again. Again again again. The Doctor and Charley both spend time with amnesia. Charley gets reverted to childhood again.
The idea of a species that doesn't have long term memory so they don't understand the difference between memory and fantasy and trap people in memory instead of giving them a happy daydream world... that's pretty cool actually, that's even neat. A prison made out of memory loops is a good one too.
The characters are interesting and well sketched in.
And if this had happened to anyone other than 8 and Charley and C'rizz it might have been remotely surprising. But as it is, you expect them to lose their memories at some point, and there's memory in the title, so the characters spend a long time running around noticing what you probably know.
Not that I minded.
This was quite a good one.
Also, C'rizz did something interesting and unique and not directly murder-y. He's got all the 'voices' in his head, all the memories he's carrying around that aren't originally his, and it's key to the resolution of the story. Neat trick with a neat racial feature. Also I like how he got more and more annoyed at a woman he dislikes because his species do the emotional camouflage thing so the longer he's with her the more he's *like* her and he doesn't want to be. That's some neat character mileage. ... it took like the last couple of minutes, but still, neat.
I actually like this one. Plural female characters who talk to each other even.
I just think they've worn out these characters kind of thoroughly.
But I'm up to their last couple of adventures now, so that'll work out.
Also, having listened to all these in a row, I forgive Charley all her more idiot decisions (but not the writers for making her that way). Anyone who has been through all this and had her brain messed with as often as she has can't rightly be blamed for going a bit wrong in the head. Half the people she meets are illusions, events end up on a loop, and the laws of time have special exemptions built in just for her. However she reacts in response to all that seems reasonable.
The idea of a species that doesn't have long term memory so they don't understand the difference between memory and fantasy and trap people in memory instead of giving them a happy daydream world... that's pretty cool actually, that's even neat. A prison made out of memory loops is a good one too.
The characters are interesting and well sketched in.
And if this had happened to anyone other than 8 and Charley and C'rizz it might have been remotely surprising. But as it is, you expect them to lose their memories at some point, and there's memory in the title, so the characters spend a long time running around noticing what you probably know.
Not that I minded.
This was quite a good one.
Also, C'rizz did something interesting and unique and not directly murder-y. He's got all the 'voices' in his head, all the memories he's carrying around that aren't originally his, and it's key to the resolution of the story. Neat trick with a neat racial feature. Also I like how he got more and more annoyed at a woman he dislikes because his species do the emotional camouflage thing so the longer he's with her the more he's *like* her and he doesn't want to be. That's some neat character mileage. ... it took like the last couple of minutes, but still, neat.
I actually like this one. Plural female characters who talk to each other even.
I just think they've worn out these characters kind of thoroughly.
But I'm up to their last couple of adventures now, so that'll work out.
Also, having listened to all these in a row, I forgive Charley all her more idiot decisions (but not the writers for making her that way). Anyone who has been through all this and had her brain messed with as often as she has can't rightly be blamed for going a bit wrong in the head. Half the people she meets are illusions, events end up on a loop, and the laws of time have special exemptions built in just for her. However she reacts in response to all that seems reasonable.