Torchwood Sin Eaters
Feb. 16th, 2024 06:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethGDL reads audiobooks well.
This is such a weird balance of really cute moments with Jack and Ianto and silly gadgets, being all upbeat after the thing with the Daleks, and a really awful alien doing really awful things to people.
Things that pull guilt to the surface, so you get some big bursts of character when one or another of them gets attacked.
Jack says its from the shadow dimension where there's only suffering to feed on, so that's, you know, terrifying as an idea. And sounds more Pathfinder than Torchwood. But nope, there is in the audiobooks of the whoniverse both a shadow dimension full of guilt and a range of beings that feed on it.
Yikes.
And yet, every bit of banter with Jack and Ianto is golden.
Also Gwen and Rhys get banter and relationship stuff too, and Rhys wants to move somewhere with a garden they can have a barbecue in, which puts this before that one big finish audio.
So this one is by turns really fun and really very messy. Dark betrayal and bad theology and a pile of coats that you realise were on people who were alive when the story started, so all the fun bits happened while they could potentially have been saved, and yet.
And then it ends with a nice big explosion and some arson. No worries about why this story ends, it's definitive.
I like the story a lot but it's doing the feelings rollercoaster where all the good bits are about to whip around into another horror bit over and over.
So, very Torchwood.
This is such a weird balance of really cute moments with Jack and Ianto and silly gadgets, being all upbeat after the thing with the Daleks, and a really awful alien doing really awful things to people.
Things that pull guilt to the surface, so you get some big bursts of character when one or another of them gets attacked.
Jack says its from the shadow dimension where there's only suffering to feed on, so that's, you know, terrifying as an idea. And sounds more Pathfinder than Torchwood. But nope, there is in the audiobooks of the whoniverse both a shadow dimension full of guilt and a range of beings that feed on it.
Yikes.
And yet, every bit of banter with Jack and Ianto is golden.
Also Gwen and Rhys get banter and relationship stuff too, and Rhys wants to move somewhere with a garden they can have a barbecue in, which puts this before that one big finish audio.
So this one is by turns really fun and really very messy. Dark betrayal and bad theology and a pile of coats that you realise were on people who were alive when the story started, so all the fun bits happened while they could potentially have been saved, and yet.
And then it ends with a nice big explosion and some arson. No worries about why this story ends, it's definitive.
I like the story a lot but it's doing the feelings rollercoaster where all the good bits are about to whip around into another horror bit over and over.
So, very Torchwood.