Torchwood: Among Us: Cuckoo
Jul. 7th, 2023 06:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethThis Torchwood audio adventure is set post all the canon, and had Gareth David Lloyd on the cover
and Murray Melvin, Bilis Manger.
Anyone who has only seen the TV show is thinking uh oh, but if you listen the audios it is fully UH OH with an option on YIKES.
And this one is up there with the most tense and terrible Bilis stories, so, you know, be in the mood for that before you follow the urban explorers in.
Spoilers under the cut:
This story doesnt have Ianto in. Which, by the end, is a big relief.
Torchwood's emergency hologram uses Ianto's face, because it is an honest face.
If you have previously listened to the Torchwood Archive audio, you will be ready to be Yikes on that side too.
So, this was very tense, and some very terrible things happened to people, and just like the other Torchwood Archive audio, it kind of breaks the usual rules of audio, in that what we hear contradicts itself so it can't all be the same level of real. It's not just the characters lying to us, it's the audio misleading us, somewhere. And we don't know enough to know where.
It bops around between different levels of real all through, because sometimes it's being found footage of what was in the urban explorers camera, but their audio quality is different from bits where they say they've turned the camera off, and we can still hear them.
We probably hear them along with the archive.
And the archive says it only has access to such and so percent of the base and appears unaware it has been deactivated for y time and, also, cannot find any Torchwood signals.
Torchwood is, as of this audio, very very screwed, and Bilis is there to make things so much worse.
The audio gives interesting characterisation and motives to Bilis, sketches in vivid personalities for the new characters, and leaves us with an interesting jumping off point should we want to use it.
But if you are there for Ianto you get much less.
I am not sure what the appeal of that was meant to be.
But it's a very creepy Bilis episode.
and Murray Melvin, Bilis Manger.
Anyone who has only seen the TV show is thinking uh oh, but if you listen the audios it is fully UH OH with an option on YIKES.
And this one is up there with the most tense and terrible Bilis stories, so, you know, be in the mood for that before you follow the urban explorers in.
Spoilers under the cut:
This story doesnt have Ianto in. Which, by the end, is a big relief.
Torchwood's emergency hologram uses Ianto's face, because it is an honest face.
If you have previously listened to the Torchwood Archive audio, you will be ready to be Yikes on that side too.
So, this was very tense, and some very terrible things happened to people, and just like the other Torchwood Archive audio, it kind of breaks the usual rules of audio, in that what we hear contradicts itself so it can't all be the same level of real. It's not just the characters lying to us, it's the audio misleading us, somewhere. And we don't know enough to know where.
It bops around between different levels of real all through, because sometimes it's being found footage of what was in the urban explorers camera, but their audio quality is different from bits where they say they've turned the camera off, and we can still hear them.
We probably hear them along with the archive.
And the archive says it only has access to such and so percent of the base and appears unaware it has been deactivated for y time and, also, cannot find any Torchwood signals.
Torchwood is, as of this audio, very very screwed, and Bilis is there to make things so much worse.
The audio gives interesting characterisation and motives to Bilis, sketches in vivid personalities for the new characters, and leaves us with an interesting jumping off point should we want to use it.
But if you are there for Ianto you get much less.
I am not sure what the appeal of that was meant to be.
But it's a very creepy Bilis episode.