Doctor Who Doom Coalition 2
Apr. 19th, 2019 07:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethToday I listened to all four parts of Doom Coalition 2.
My attention span only really lasted for three of them, but the fourth had River Song so I tried listening regardless. I think it was a pretty good one but I'd gone all distracted and fiddly so I should probably have saved it for another day and may relisten to it later.
Things I like about these sets: The Doctor is positively surrounded by women, and they talk to each other a lot, about adventures and saving the day and such.
Things I do not like: The bad guys have mental health problems, and this is what makes them bad. Like, the Eleven has all his regenerations personalities still offering opinions in his head, which ought to be interesting but thus far is not very connected up to the Doctor so it kind of isn't. And now there's a lady who got operated on by psychosurgeons because her telepathy was too strong. Plus a bonus section where a TARDIS has stayed in the vortex too long and everyone has lost their minds. By the time the last story had a straightforward greedy miner I was rather relieved.
But one of the discs was about an actor putting on a production of King Lear and getting all tangled up with alien stuff, and the Doctor went even more odd than usual, and wandered off to be fools together with another crazy man, who cleared his head by cutting his hair. So it's not like the mental health problems are all on one side. They're just... a thing.
I liked that the stories get into the motivations of the new companion and have her empathise with people and so forth. Also that when this goes horribly wrong the Doctor is very insistent she did the right thing anyway, because compassion, always a good thing.
... there are so many stories that do not insist that.
The River Song story had her stay away from the Doctor because he's 8, which, I understand the continuity reasons, but then there's a big bit of the fun missing. But she's still River Song and she does a lot of saving the day, so yaay.
Liv also got to have a fight in a great big robot suit, which is obviously just clanging noises on audio, but you can imagine it and it's great.
So I liked the stories plenty, but I should take a break between discs and not plan a four hour listen in future.
On the plus side I got many dragon things done in Flight Rising, so that was nice.
... I'm kind of bored of Flight Rising too, the Coliseum gets boring when you've got optimised dragons to play with, but I did win a really expensive battle stone today, so that was good. And my Toni dragon is level 19 now. ... though I'm feeling like teh build is out of character because I just have been using the optimised numbers Mark III and Mark V have, and really a Tony Stark type should be an Intelligence build, even if those don't seem to work as well because Eliminate is so decisive. Oh well.
Doctor Who and dragons: A good day.
My attention span only really lasted for three of them, but the fourth had River Song so I tried listening regardless. I think it was a pretty good one but I'd gone all distracted and fiddly so I should probably have saved it for another day and may relisten to it later.
Things I like about these sets: The Doctor is positively surrounded by women, and they talk to each other a lot, about adventures and saving the day and such.
Things I do not like: The bad guys have mental health problems, and this is what makes them bad. Like, the Eleven has all his regenerations personalities still offering opinions in his head, which ought to be interesting but thus far is not very connected up to the Doctor so it kind of isn't. And now there's a lady who got operated on by psychosurgeons because her telepathy was too strong. Plus a bonus section where a TARDIS has stayed in the vortex too long and everyone has lost their minds. By the time the last story had a straightforward greedy miner I was rather relieved.
But one of the discs was about an actor putting on a production of King Lear and getting all tangled up with alien stuff, and the Doctor went even more odd than usual, and wandered off to be fools together with another crazy man, who cleared his head by cutting his hair. So it's not like the mental health problems are all on one side. They're just... a thing.
I liked that the stories get into the motivations of the new companion and have her empathise with people and so forth. Also that when this goes horribly wrong the Doctor is very insistent she did the right thing anyway, because compassion, always a good thing.
... there are so many stories that do not insist that.
The River Song story had her stay away from the Doctor because he's 8, which, I understand the continuity reasons, but then there's a big bit of the fun missing. But she's still River Song and she does a lot of saving the day, so yaay.
Liv also got to have a fight in a great big robot suit, which is obviously just clanging noises on audio, but you can imagine it and it's great.
So I liked the stories plenty, but I should take a break between discs and not plan a four hour listen in future.
On the plus side I got many dragon things done in Flight Rising, so that was nice.
... I'm kind of bored of Flight Rising too, the Coliseum gets boring when you've got optimised dragons to play with, but I did win a really expensive battle stone today, so that was good. And my Toni dragon is level 19 now. ... though I'm feeling like teh build is out of character because I just have been using the optimised numbers Mark III and Mark V have, and really a Tony Stark type should be an Intelligence build, even if those don't seem to work as well because Eliminate is so decisive. Oh well.
Doctor Who and dragons: A good day.