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beccaelizabeth) wrote2022-08-27 06:45 am
beccaelizabeth) wrote2022-08-27 06:45 am
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Torchwood: Restricted Items Archive Entries 031-049
This was a very thrifty audio, with one voice and a bunch of spooky noises, but that voice was Gareth David-Lloyd and as usual he makes it a winner.
I enjoyed this one very much, and I might relisten to it again right away.
It's Ianto talking to a dictaphone in the restricted archives, describing items he's been asked to file away. His little asides about who did what to themselves with them (mostly Owen, who claims he was fine), are pretty hilarious. And the bits about how he's alone in the archive because everyone else went bowling are :( So you get some feels threaded through all the items.
But then they start to click together into a bigger story, and I loved it.
Spoilers under cut:
Due to spoilery reasons you'll end up having to reevaluate how much of what you've heard is true, or true ish. How much of what Ianto was feeling, in particular.
I was distracted because I put this on and did some tidying and a walking workout to walk one mile for a challenge on my watch, which I should do more often because it wasn't easy.
But in the middle I thought Ianto was being worryingly Slow, and waited to find out if there were Reasons, which of course there were.
You never know what you're going to find in the Torchwood archives.
It turns out some unknown amount of what Ianto has been saying is bait for a trap, to make him look isolated and vulnerable, so then you're left not knowing how true any of it was.
But the chatty bits afterwards say all of it was emotionally true *at some point*, so Ianto is doing the actor thing of presenting emotional truths in a manipulative or creative context.
Which is cool because then the feels are fair play to the audience. You dont have to feel foolish or discard character theories. It all was true, in its way, once. But maybe he's moved past that now.
Maybe.
I thought the whole thing was fair play. It told you everything you needed to know, didn't leave out things to pull out for later, did exactly what it described earlier. But you probably won't guess the end anyway.
It's always funnest when they do that.
I liked it very well and did not think it needed any extra voices or anything. Complete and satisfying story of itself.
I really might just go sit down and listen again from the beginning...
I enjoyed this one very much, and I might relisten to it again right away.
It's Ianto talking to a dictaphone in the restricted archives, describing items he's been asked to file away. His little asides about who did what to themselves with them (mostly Owen, who claims he was fine), are pretty hilarious. And the bits about how he's alone in the archive because everyone else went bowling are :( So you get some feels threaded through all the items.
But then they start to click together into a bigger story, and I loved it.
Spoilers under cut:
Due to spoilery reasons you'll end up having to reevaluate how much of what you've heard is true, or true ish. How much of what Ianto was feeling, in particular.
I was distracted because I put this on and did some tidying and a walking workout to walk one mile for a challenge on my watch, which I should do more often because it wasn't easy.
But in the middle I thought Ianto was being worryingly Slow, and waited to find out if there were Reasons, which of course there were.
You never know what you're going to find in the Torchwood archives.
It turns out some unknown amount of what Ianto has been saying is bait for a trap, to make him look isolated and vulnerable, so then you're left not knowing how true any of it was.
But the chatty bits afterwards say all of it was emotionally true *at some point*, so Ianto is doing the actor thing of presenting emotional truths in a manipulative or creative context.
Which is cool because then the feels are fair play to the audience. You dont have to feel foolish or discard character theories. It all was true, in its way, once. But maybe he's moved past that now.
Maybe.
I thought the whole thing was fair play. It told you everything you needed to know, didn't leave out things to pull out for later, did exactly what it described earlier. But you probably won't guess the end anyway.
It's always funnest when they do that.
I liked it very well and did not think it needed any extra voices or anything. Complete and satisfying story of itself.
I really might just go sit down and listen again from the beginning...