River Song season 5
Feb. 19th, 2019 11:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI listened to all four adventures with The Master.
The recurring theme seems to be not figuring out that they're The Master.
And since we the audience know this, I do not see how this is interesting?
I mean, it's not exactly tense to wonder if River will figure it out in time, on account of we know she always survives, so then it's just... waiting for her to catch up.
Also in one of them the Master is pretending not to be the Master, which I know he does a lot but it is, on this occasion, kind of boring. Makes him the least interesting character in the story.
I did like the first story, the one with Missy. That was twisty and adventure and good to listen to.
It was fun hearing Missy say she did try to meet the Doctor in the correct order, like that's just politeness for Time Lords, but River is a complex space time event. Like that's bad manners.
And I did like River gloating that she married the Doctor and saying the Master was jealous.
I don't know though, I'm having to think about it to find the bits I like, they were not mostly the bits I like.
Except for Missy in the first story. That was good.
I like listening to River be clever and figure things out and ideally run around saving the Doctor while falling in love again again again. This set only did some of that.
But if you want to listen to the Master maybe it is more interesting? Like if it was a box set called The Master I'd listen to it a different way. Don't know though, don't know what I'd want out of that.
The Bekdel Test was good, Animal Instinct had a bunch of interesting, The Lifeboat and the Deathboat was interesting but not in how it used the Master unless you really want to hear how the TV movie connects up to anything after, and Concealed Weapon I liked by far the least, but since it was the last in the set that has made me more frowning about all of them. Oh well.
Shall definitely relisten to Missy again some time.
Don't know about the rest.
The recurring theme seems to be not figuring out that they're The Master.
And since we the audience know this, I do not see how this is interesting?
I mean, it's not exactly tense to wonder if River will figure it out in time, on account of we know she always survives, so then it's just... waiting for her to catch up.
Also in one of them the Master is pretending not to be the Master, which I know he does a lot but it is, on this occasion, kind of boring. Makes him the least interesting character in the story.
I did like the first story, the one with Missy. That was twisty and adventure and good to listen to.
It was fun hearing Missy say she did try to meet the Doctor in the correct order, like that's just politeness for Time Lords, but River is a complex space time event. Like that's bad manners.
And I did like River gloating that she married the Doctor and saying the Master was jealous.
I don't know though, I'm having to think about it to find the bits I like, they were not mostly the bits I like.
Except for Missy in the first story. That was good.
I like listening to River be clever and figure things out and ideally run around saving the Doctor while falling in love again again again. This set only did some of that.
But if you want to listen to the Master maybe it is more interesting? Like if it was a box set called The Master I'd listen to it a different way. Don't know though, don't know what I'd want out of that.
The Bekdel Test was good, Animal Instinct had a bunch of interesting, The Lifeboat and the Deathboat was interesting but not in how it used the Master unless you really want to hear how the TV movie connects up to anything after, and Concealed Weapon I liked by far the least, but since it was the last in the set that has made me more frowning about all of them. Oh well.
Shall definitely relisten to Missy again some time.
Don't know about the rest.