BBC Audio: Doctor Who: One Mile Down
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beccaelizabeth10 and Donna go to a beautiful underwater planet
currently pumped out for tourists to visit.
Also there are Judoon. Including a young one everyone keeps going aw cute about. But he is a trainee police, it seems unfair to be awww at him.
ANYway, I liked this one. The Doctor is complaining about how much more authentic it was when he visited, but then the locals are all yes, you saw it, and then a bazillion other people followed. And the Doctor is all Robots Rights, because 51st century, but then the robots have all the jobs and the locals aren't allowed to have financial dealings with outsiders. So the Doctor being very himself does rather resemble the clueless tourists he's so disdainful of.
Donna is having fun and meeting people, including someone who is planning to marry a local, and someone else who is just blatantly racist about it. But the more they talk the more the 'romance' seems all about how quaint and picturesque their way of life is.
And she's entirely fine with her fiance having to wear a helmet in his own home, but complains when it's her turn.
The locals are fish, except fish is the rude word for them. The politer word is Fins.
Their city got pumoed dry so airbreather tourists can walk around comfortably, and outsiders charged them to do it. And charge for repairs. And helmets. And to convert their homes into hotels. But not to worry, the tourist business is booming, they'll clear their debt any decade now!
It's just really well constructed, with everyone being terrible people, but on a slightly funny Doctor Who scale.
I liked the Judoon arresting people for touching priceless artefacts when things fell on them. Very literal, Judoon.
I also really liked the way the plot resolved. And how it doesn't immediately fix things. And people are still people.
I liked Donna and Ten in this, it was a nice vivid story, and I'm sure it's easier to do a soaring underwater city full of priceless art, wandering fin people, judoon guards, and tens of thousands of tourists, when you're doing an audio. Proper use of the form there, get ambitious, and then make it about half a dozen voices and some water noise.
Is fun.
currently pumped out for tourists to visit.
Also there are Judoon. Including a young one everyone keeps going aw cute about. But he is a trainee police, it seems unfair to be awww at him.
ANYway, I liked this one. The Doctor is complaining about how much more authentic it was when he visited, but then the locals are all yes, you saw it, and then a bazillion other people followed. And the Doctor is all Robots Rights, because 51st century, but then the robots have all the jobs and the locals aren't allowed to have financial dealings with outsiders. So the Doctor being very himself does rather resemble the clueless tourists he's so disdainful of.
Donna is having fun and meeting people, including someone who is planning to marry a local, and someone else who is just blatantly racist about it. But the more they talk the more the 'romance' seems all about how quaint and picturesque their way of life is.
And she's entirely fine with her fiance having to wear a helmet in his own home, but complains when it's her turn.
The locals are fish, except fish is the rude word for them. The politer word is Fins.
Their city got pumoed dry so airbreather tourists can walk around comfortably, and outsiders charged them to do it. And charge for repairs. And helmets. And to convert their homes into hotels. But not to worry, the tourist business is booming, they'll clear their debt any decade now!
It's just really well constructed, with everyone being terrible people, but on a slightly funny Doctor Who scale.
I liked the Judoon arresting people for touching priceless artefacts when things fell on them. Very literal, Judoon.
I also really liked the way the plot resolved. And how it doesn't immediately fix things. And people are still people.
I liked Donna and Ten in this, it was a nice vivid story, and I'm sure it's easier to do a soaring underwater city full of priceless art, wandering fin people, judoon guards, and tens of thousands of tourists, when you're doing an audio. Proper use of the form there, get ambitious, and then make it about half a dozen voices and some water noise.
Is fun.