Torchwood Poppet

[beccaelizabeth]

January's Big Finish Torchwood is a good one I think, lots of properly scary elements, vs just Rhys on his own, Torchwood adjacent enough to figure out something is wrong but ordinary enough he can't figure what to do about it except get angry. There's gaslighting, denial of other people's senses and accusations of mental health problems, and because it's an audio and Big Finish only give us very vague time referents we can hear what we think is going on but it keeps uncomfortably close to plausible. The story is about a missing child and Rhys is a father but on his own right now so it has an extra layer of worry. Because we know he married Gwen and they had Anwen, but without a timestamp it's always possible something has gone very wrong, and there's moments he starts talking to himself and is all 'I dont know what I'd be like if you actually left me' to imaginary Gwen, so that glimmer of doubt creeps in.

The only problem is, do you ever feel like a story has missed the actual story in their story?
Because the most scary thing in this one is how people keep forgetting, forgeting entire people.
And Torchwood can do that.
Did do that, routinely.
It's Yvonne's cure for grief, and associated inconvenience.

So the more that happens, the more the stuff on the cover with the poppets seems ... like ducking?

Because every truly awful part of this one could have happened if
someone pulled a bottle of retcon out of the rubble.

And there's been plenty of opportunity.


So the more the plot ramped up into being very specific - and I wonder what their schedule looks like to put a Samhain adventure out in January - the more I felt like it was ignoring the interesting bits to do something from another genre.

But I think probably if you can listen to the story they were actually making it's good.