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beccaelizabethI have half a shelf of unlistened doctor who audios to get through and decided to do so while sorting stuff in the living room.
I tried to put a USB thingy into my tv to listen my musics, but nothing happened. And I don't know how to troubleshoot when the starting point is nothing happened. So I don't think that plan works.
But I can still play CDs.
... I didn't feel very involved in this one. I kept dissecting the plot structure as it went along. It's all very well having a main character who hates guns, abhors violence, and will always try to find another way, but when you consistently wrap him in people who like blowing things up and never let the other ways work, the end message is pretty much as violent as ever, just you get to feel self righteous about it.
On the other hand, killing aliens by using viking bones to summon their twenty foot tall ghosts to turn said aliens to bone and smash them is pretty damn cool, as images go.
Also the whole thing where the storm itself was the enemy and all that ice and wind stripped flesh from bone was proper horror movie stuff, but calibrated to Doctor Who levels correctly, because audio and pretty clean aside from the screaming.
I like 6 on audios. I like that the Doctor will always offer to give the invaders a lift home and help them find a mor suitable candidate for terraforming.
I'm not sure about his companion here. Her voice is so busy being posh I'm not sure it expresses other things. Stiff upper lip is all very well but I'm not feeling much.
But I do like her general air of competence and appreciation for other women's work.
Also women got to talk to each other about blowing up aliens, with a dash of war is awful and oh no we're having happy feelings about killing now. Bechdel passing with actual meat in it, not to be taken for granted.
Adventure had good features.
I think it's just my mood putting me off.
I tried to put a USB thingy into my tv to listen my musics, but nothing happened. And I don't know how to troubleshoot when the starting point is nothing happened. So I don't think that plan works.
But I can still play CDs.
... I didn't feel very involved in this one. I kept dissecting the plot structure as it went along. It's all very well having a main character who hates guns, abhors violence, and will always try to find another way, but when you consistently wrap him in people who like blowing things up and never let the other ways work, the end message is pretty much as violent as ever, just you get to feel self righteous about it.
On the other hand, killing aliens by using viking bones to summon their twenty foot tall ghosts to turn said aliens to bone and smash them is pretty damn cool, as images go.
Also the whole thing where the storm itself was the enemy and all that ice and wind stripped flesh from bone was proper horror movie stuff, but calibrated to Doctor Who levels correctly, because audio and pretty clean aside from the screaming.
I like 6 on audios. I like that the Doctor will always offer to give the invaders a lift home and help them find a mor suitable candidate for terraforming.
I'm not sure about his companion here. Her voice is so busy being posh I'm not sure it expresses other things. Stiff upper lip is all very well but I'm not feeling much.
But I do like her general air of competence and appreciation for other women's work.
Also women got to talk to each other about blowing up aliens, with a dash of war is awful and oh no we're having happy feelings about killing now. Bechdel passing with actual meat in it, not to be taken for granted.
Adventure had good features.
I think it's just my mood putting me off.
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Date: 2017-09-25 09:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-25 10:03 pm (UTC)just not the recorder box or tv.