Big Finish Audio Doctor Who 221 222 223
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beccaelizabethThe Star Men, The Contingency Club, Zaltys
A trilogy of Adric stories.
... unfortunately that's most of my thoughts on them. Adric. Is not very interesting.
Splitting up the companions gives a tour of different parts of the world but only actually does anything significant to the plot in 221.Adric does maths like it's a superpower. But everybody else just... runs around. I mean the Zaltys one just had Tegan running around being chased and then... well, she does rescue one person, but not for very long. So it didnt feel like it did anything much.
... in the extras the director says Tegan has no special skills. *sigh* social skills are not special...
Each story had an interesting bit of plot, coherent bad guys, and some nice visuals (yes I know they're audios, they still tell you visuals.) Clone servants where the powerful dont even notice they're matching is a fun idea, but nothing happens with it, and they're treated as one character even by the story, so it doesnt do the class thing it could. But row after row of steampunk clones getting born is a good image. Same with vampires in spacesuits. And the star men would look awesome in several forms.
But I feel like something is missing on a character and theme level, and then the story is hollow and doesn't reward relistens.
Plus the vampire one is about the dangers of inviting people in, so the whole thing where isolationists are Wrong crunches into the thing where they'd actually kind of got a point. The theme crunches into itself and isnt telling what it thinks it is. Except for who ends up saving them in the end, aliens all. And I keep on trying to shake that story to see if Tegan's unhappiness at being on that TARDIS with three aliens connects up, but I dont think it does quite.
So there's interesting plots with interesting bad guys, but I'm not sure Team TARDIS is being used fully and distinctively, and I'm unconvined they get a moment of awesome each, and it just seems... unsatisfying.
But I'm grumpy and easily bored right now so I'm not sure I trust my judgement on these anyway.
A trilogy of Adric stories.
... unfortunately that's most of my thoughts on them. Adric. Is not very interesting.
Splitting up the companions gives a tour of different parts of the world but only actually does anything significant to the plot in 221.
... in the extras the director says Tegan has no special skills. *sigh* social skills are not special...
Each story had an interesting bit of plot, coherent bad guys, and some nice visuals (yes I know they're audios, they still tell you visuals.) Clone servants where the powerful dont even notice they're matching is a fun idea, but nothing happens with it, and they're treated as one character even by the story, so it doesnt do the class thing it could. But row after row of steampunk clones getting born is a good image. Same with vampires in spacesuits. And the star men would look awesome in several forms.
But I feel like something is missing on a character and theme level, and then the story is hollow and doesn't reward relistens.
Plus the vampire one is about the dangers of inviting people in, so the whole thing where isolationists are Wrong crunches into the thing where they'd actually kind of got a point. The theme crunches into itself and isnt telling what it thinks it is. Except for who ends up saving them in the end, aliens all. And I keep on trying to shake that story to see if Tegan's unhappiness at being on that TARDIS with three aliens connects up, but I dont think it does quite.
So there's interesting plots with interesting bad guys, but I'm not sure Team TARDIS is being used fully and distinctively, and I'm unconvined they get a moment of awesome each, and it just seems... unsatisfying.
But I'm grumpy and easily bored right now so I'm not sure I trust my judgement on these anyway.
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Date: 2017-12-22 10:56 pm (UTC)and a gay werewolf who wins in the end through a noble sacrifice that works because their vampire enemies ate his husband.
... this genre ...