Doom Coalition 3 & 4
Nov. 6th, 2019 11:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabeth8, Liv Chenka, Helen Sinclair, and significant of River Song.
I have one disc left of Doom Coalition 4
but I am pausing a moment
because now I put Sims 4 down for the day
I have realised
these deserved rather more of my attention than I have been giving them.
... I think I'm listening but then the Sims eats my brain and I'm having to go over the good bits in my head and re realise that was in fact exciting.
I feel I have noticed this before so now I feel foolish.
But these stories were full of adventure and excitement and time travel shenanigans
and River Song having to work around the fixed fact that her husband doesn't get to know her yet
which gives me ever more feelings the more true it gets.
Also River keeps saying complimentary things about the Doctor, and I rather agree with her about 8.
The plot shenanigans to make her unrecognised are pretty okay because they get tangled up with companions trusting the Doctor but keeping secrets from him, and then they're character shenanigans and much more interesting. And the tech that makes her look like someone else is broadly stuff we've seen on DW already, but specifically a nun's wimple which makes her look like Rita Hayworth, so that's kind of hilarious. She makes a surprising nun. The shooting goes oddly with the penguin suit.
Also it was funny when she's in Italy giving orders and companion is like ?? obeying you why? and River is like slightly psychic wimple. Plus, Italy, nun.
The actual doomy adventure plot did a great many things over 7 discs and I rather like it. The 11 got more interesting when he was least expected. Multiple personalities in fiction is usually a big fail, but the whole regeneration thing is being explored via 11's multiple voices and the Monk insisting on starting fresh and only being judged by his latest actions. Because the range of actions in a given time lord can be seen to be very wide even between sequential incarnations it seems kind of almost fair, but, he's the monk, so he's just using his get out of jail free clause and being smug about it. So it's interesting digging in to how a time lord is and isnt the same person, and of course River and her non sequential life has a unique view on that.
I also love how fractured River's identities are in the midst of all this, and how she can just shrug off the wimple and... well, spoilers, but that was a clever good bit.
... I could keep saying more about River, so I guess I'll just say that as a fan of the character I found the stories worthwhile.
The Doctor's companions got some good stuff too. Especially the first disc in both sets. DC3 starts with people getting phone calls from the dead, and that's serious character miles. But then it ends just when 8 picks up his call so you're left wondering. DC4 starts with them stranded in an escape pod, and everyone is needed to get out of that one. The Doctor was not having a good day. So they all get plenty things to do.
But I really should have just listened to them without playing, because I have all the Sims I was inventing and houses I was making all doodled in the margins of the story, which isn't terribly helpful.
I'm actually tempted to start listening them again from the beginning, except I'd be even worse at keeping my attention on a repeat.
So I'm typing this to try and focus better to listen to the last one.
Many gigantic plot things are going to get resolved, one hopes, somehow, and I expect it to be good
like they have been so far.
I have one disc left of Doom Coalition 4
but I am pausing a moment
because now I put Sims 4 down for the day
I have realised
these deserved rather more of my attention than I have been giving them.
... I think I'm listening but then the Sims eats my brain and I'm having to go over the good bits in my head and re realise that was in fact exciting.
I feel I have noticed this before so now I feel foolish.
But these stories were full of adventure and excitement and time travel shenanigans
and River Song having to work around the fixed fact that her husband doesn't get to know her yet
which gives me ever more feelings the more true it gets.
Also River keeps saying complimentary things about the Doctor, and I rather agree with her about 8.
The plot shenanigans to make her unrecognised are pretty okay because they get tangled up with companions trusting the Doctor but keeping secrets from him, and then they're character shenanigans and much more interesting. And the tech that makes her look like someone else is broadly stuff we've seen on DW already, but specifically a nun's wimple which makes her look like Rita Hayworth, so that's kind of hilarious. She makes a surprising nun. The shooting goes oddly with the penguin suit.
Also it was funny when she's in Italy giving orders and companion is like ?? obeying you why? and River is like slightly psychic wimple. Plus, Italy, nun.
The actual doomy adventure plot did a great many things over 7 discs and I rather like it. The 11 got more interesting when he was least expected. Multiple personalities in fiction is usually a big fail, but the whole regeneration thing is being explored via 11's multiple voices and the Monk insisting on starting fresh and only being judged by his latest actions. Because the range of actions in a given time lord can be seen to be very wide even between sequential incarnations it seems kind of almost fair, but, he's the monk, so he's just using his get out of jail free clause and being smug about it. So it's interesting digging in to how a time lord is and isnt the same person, and of course River and her non sequential life has a unique view on that.
I also love how fractured River's identities are in the midst of all this, and how she can just shrug off the wimple and... well, spoilers, but that was a clever good bit.
... I could keep saying more about River, so I guess I'll just say that as a fan of the character I found the stories worthwhile.
The Doctor's companions got some good stuff too. Especially the first disc in both sets. DC3 starts with people getting phone calls from the dead, and that's serious character miles. But then it ends just when 8 picks up his call so you're left wondering. DC4 starts with them stranded in an escape pod, and everyone is needed to get out of that one. The Doctor was not having a good day. So they all get plenty things to do.
But I really should have just listened to them without playing, because I have all the Sims I was inventing and houses I was making all doodled in the margins of the story, which isn't terribly helpful.
I'm actually tempted to start listening them again from the beginning, except I'd be even worse at keeping my attention on a repeat.
So I'm typing this to try and focus better to listen to the last one.
Many gigantic plot things are going to get resolved, one hopes, somehow, and I expect it to be good
like they have been so far.