Torchwood Big Finish Audio 35 & 36
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beccaelizabethI have listened to Fortitude and Dissected.
Fortitude features Queen Victoria and had a lot to say about Empire and stolen treasure and treating other cultures badly and the roots of Torchwood.
I didn't really connect to it emotionally though. It's all new characters, really, none of the team. So I cared but.
I think it was quite good. Interesting people doing interesting things and complaining about British colonialism.
Dissected was more my speed. Gwen and Martha, and a case obviously, but mostly Gwen and Martha realising they are not in fact friends right now. Martha gives a reason she doesn't work for Torchwood, it's just too sad right now. Because Tosh and Owen are dead. Torchwood are using - or misusing, Martha says - tech Tosh set up, and asking Martha for an autopsy because Owen is gone. And it's interesting because it's just such an ordinary way for a friendship to fall apart, work moving people around, being tired all the time, having personal life stuff come up at the wrong moments. It's just two people. I like it.
Of course it's two people in Torchwood, so eventually they're in lockdown with a corpse that gets more creepy by the minute, so that bit's interesting.
It's one of the ones where the attentive listener knows more than the characters from the get go, not least that they're in an audio and Torchwood is a horror story, but also there are Clues. Good use of the medium.
I loved the bit where they've got as far as being like 'maybe one of us is an alien go on prove you are who you say you are', and they, er, kind of can't, because they've forgotten things and not been around enough to know them. It's the most human resolution of that bit. They'd like to trust each other, they're trying to connect, and all that means is they suddenly notice the gaping great gap that opened between them.
Also I like how Gwen is there to see her friend, by bringing a corpse, and to Martha it's just one more job and one more time Torchwood only notice her when they need her.
The gaps and missed connections.
I am not at all sure about the ending though.
I mean overworked? Fake your death! Instead of taking a holiday or quitting just kite off into the night leaving a burning building behind you!
... actually put like that I imagine someone was having a wish fulfilment moment.
But for two characters who are just living their lives? That's... just throw away your career and any chance of security clearance? What?
If Gwen actually would come up with that advice I don't like her much.
I liked both stories but as you can see from the sheer verbiage I like the characters emotional connections and character arc, the way the stories fit in and elaborate on canon gaps, so I didn't really get much out of the one as wasn't about main cast.
Fun to listen though.
Fortitude features Queen Victoria and had a lot to say about Empire and stolen treasure and treating other cultures badly and the roots of Torchwood.
I didn't really connect to it emotionally though. It's all new characters, really, none of the team. So I cared but.
I think it was quite good. Interesting people doing interesting things and complaining about British colonialism.
Dissected was more my speed. Gwen and Martha, and a case obviously, but mostly Gwen and Martha realising they are not in fact friends right now. Martha gives a reason she doesn't work for Torchwood, it's just too sad right now. Because Tosh and Owen are dead. Torchwood are using - or misusing, Martha says - tech Tosh set up, and asking Martha for an autopsy because Owen is gone. And it's interesting because it's just such an ordinary way for a friendship to fall apart, work moving people around, being tired all the time, having personal life stuff come up at the wrong moments. It's just two people. I like it.
Of course it's two people in Torchwood, so eventually they're in lockdown with a corpse that gets more creepy by the minute, so that bit's interesting.
It's one of the ones where the attentive listener knows more than the characters from the get go, not least that they're in an audio and Torchwood is a horror story, but also there are Clues. Good use of the medium.
I loved the bit where they've got as far as being like 'maybe one of us is an alien go on prove you are who you say you are', and they, er, kind of can't, because they've forgotten things and not been around enough to know them. It's the most human resolution of that bit. They'd like to trust each other, they're trying to connect, and all that means is they suddenly notice the gaping great gap that opened between them.
Also I like how Gwen is there to see her friend, by bringing a corpse, and to Martha it's just one more job and one more time Torchwood only notice her when they need her.
The gaps and missed connections.
I am not at all sure about the ending though.
I mean overworked? Fake your death! Instead of taking a holiday or quitting just kite off into the night leaving a burning building behind you!
... actually put like that I imagine someone was having a wish fulfilment moment.
But for two characters who are just living their lives? That's... just throw away your career and any chance of security clearance? What?
If Gwen actually would come up with that advice I don't like her much.
I liked both stories but as you can see from the sheer verbiage I like the characters emotional connections and character arc, the way the stories fit in and elaborate on canon gaps, so I didn't really get much out of the one as wasn't about main cast.
Fun to listen though.
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Date: 2020-03-16 06:03 pm (UTC)