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Jun. 15th, 2022 12:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethachieved my move and exercise goals for the day despite long naps
by putting Gallifrey on and walking on the spot.
I still like Gallifrey, but I was thinking why Torchwood is the only range I kept up with, and I think because Torchwood focuses on one or two characters at a time and jumps all over time it can stomp you in the feels with character based story almost every time. You kind of know with Owen you'll be exploring big ticket mortality stuff and there's a strong chance Ianto will be about love, or the kind of moral dilemmas only Torchwood expects of a new PA. Andy will be... shiny in a non shiny situation, and Norton will be dark but in that very listenable way. Whereas Gallifrey is a complicated political plot that sets up some feelsy stuff but ... honestly I kept going back 30 seconds at more than one point of the story cause I wasn't sure I got all the words. And that matters on these ones.
Torchwood audios feel more like fanfic, because boom, this characters deepest darkest emotions, new history, and also some plot that will make them feel things.
That said, I stalled on listening to Ace and Hex because they don't half put Hex through it. If I'd been listening to the other stories in between it would have felt different, but as it was, I just... kind of want to rescue Hex? Often? A lot? And then I found myself not clicking the next episode. So, feels, not always wanting them stomped on.
But with Torchwood, however many times it reminds you how it ends for these people, you get to hear new and interesting middle or occasionally beginning, and then it pops over to someone else completely for the next one.
... I think listening to any one character in a row would feel like hearing Hex though.
... listening order matters a bunch.
by putting Gallifrey on and walking on the spot.
I still like Gallifrey, but I was thinking why Torchwood is the only range I kept up with, and I think because Torchwood focuses on one or two characters at a time and jumps all over time it can stomp you in the feels with character based story almost every time. You kind of know with Owen you'll be exploring big ticket mortality stuff and there's a strong chance Ianto will be about love, or the kind of moral dilemmas only Torchwood expects of a new PA. Andy will be... shiny in a non shiny situation, and Norton will be dark but in that very listenable way. Whereas Gallifrey is a complicated political plot that sets up some feelsy stuff but ... honestly I kept going back 30 seconds at more than one point of the story cause I wasn't sure I got all the words. And that matters on these ones.
Torchwood audios feel more like fanfic, because boom, this characters deepest darkest emotions, new history, and also some plot that will make them feel things.
That said, I stalled on listening to Ace and Hex because they don't half put Hex through it. If I'd been listening to the other stories in between it would have felt different, but as it was, I just... kind of want to rescue Hex? Often? A lot? And then I found myself not clicking the next episode. So, feels, not always wanting them stomped on.
But with Torchwood, however many times it reminds you how it ends for these people, you get to hear new and interesting middle or occasionally beginning, and then it pops over to someone else completely for the next one.
... I think listening to any one character in a row would feel like hearing Hex though.
... listening order matters a bunch.