Big Finish 7th Doctor
Oct. 8th, 2023 06:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethYesterday and today I listened to
Persuasion
Starlight Robbery
Daleks Among Us.
The stories were pretty okay. I liked Starlight Robbery best because of the varied characters.
I did not find the chqracter Will Arrowsmith fun to listen to. He's a good at math bad a people UNIT guy in 1990, and he's trying to prove he's not as bad in the field as his supervisor thinks, but he is in fact that bad. I dont know which bit of listening to him is supposed to be fun but you want to send him home with a thermos of tea or something.
The big complicated whatsit that tied the three stories together wasnt terribly interesting in the end either. I think that was the point, that the Daleks cant imagine more interesting things, but still, seemed a bit of an anti climax.
The most interesting bit was the 7th Doctor knowing he nears the end of that regeneration and fearing his next lifetime will not pursue the work 7 leaves unfinished, or at least wont do it the same way. It's interesting because it's easy to think of regeneration as an easy trick, but the Doctor feels fear and loss about the ends of their lives, and in this case is possibly being a bit much to get ahead of it, which is relatable.
I say in middle age. Wonder how much more relatable that bit will get.
I'm planning to listen more stories later but these three were a set so I write them down together.
I do miss how personal Torchwood gets and how relatable it can be.
... stories set in the 90s get ever further away and we caught up with the ones set twenty years in the future in the 2020s. The Torchwood era with Ianto and Owen and Tosh gets ever further in the past. Feel a kind of way about that...
Persuasion
Starlight Robbery
Daleks Among Us.
The stories were pretty okay. I liked Starlight Robbery best because of the varied characters.
I did not find the chqracter Will Arrowsmith fun to listen to. He's a good at math bad a people UNIT guy in 1990, and he's trying to prove he's not as bad in the field as his supervisor thinks, but he is in fact that bad. I dont know which bit of listening to him is supposed to be fun but you want to send him home with a thermos of tea or something.
The big complicated whatsit that tied the three stories together wasnt terribly interesting in the end either. I think that was the point, that the Daleks cant imagine more interesting things, but still, seemed a bit of an anti climax.
The most interesting bit was the 7th Doctor knowing he nears the end of that regeneration and fearing his next lifetime will not pursue the work 7 leaves unfinished, or at least wont do it the same way. It's interesting because it's easy to think of regeneration as an easy trick, but the Doctor feels fear and loss about the ends of their lives, and in this case is possibly being a bit much to get ahead of it, which is relatable.
I say in middle age. Wonder how much more relatable that bit will get.
I'm planning to listen more stories later but these three were a set so I write them down together.
I do miss how personal Torchwood gets and how relatable it can be.
... stories set in the 90s get ever further away and we caught up with the ones set twenty years in the future in the 2020s. The Torchwood era with Ianto and Owen and Tosh gets ever further in the past. Feel a kind of way about that...