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beccaelizabeth) wrote2024-02-22 07:31 pm
beccaelizabeth) wrote2024-02-22 07:31 pm
Torchwood Army of One
Read by Kai Owen, who is good at doing the voices.
This one I definitely haven't heard before. Dont have it on CD, even though its from 2012, just this apple books on my phone I've been listening.
It's set after Miracle Day but has a flashback to the full team; sometime after Rhys knows what they do for a living but while Owen is alive, which I think narrows it down a lot.
I haven't seen much of Miracle Day but it's rather large print about what the relevant bits are. There's a baby to put in danger, Gwen is last Torchwood agent standing, and there's sort of a theme about living on in memory, only it's Torchwood so that is not, as it turns out, a good thing. Talk about the Miracle as a fate worse than death. Lots of mummified corpses, used up before their time. A 'joyrider' alien, hopping around and using people up. Plenty of solid horror elements.
I'm not sure it adds up in the end though. It's giving me that niggly feeling of nice elements now turn them around a bit and find the heart of things. It all felt a bit beginning y. And the story only actually caught up to the characters for like five minutes? And they didnt have to discover anything, realise anything, or do anything, the story just... happened. So that's not ideal.
Also the story made Jack immune to the joyrider, which is the cheapest easiest way out and skips most of the horror you could squeeze out of the situation.
Also team Torchwood have to be really very stupid to end up in as much danger as they managed in the flashback, which I will grant is consistent with their character, but always flipping annoying. Leave even one person on watch or just dont walk one hundred percent of the people aware of the situation into the psychic field and you'd get a different story. Seems a bit daft.
The only bit that seemed like a loose end is how much money Torchwood is implied to have stashed around the world. Gwen is giving the stash they find away to someone in America, or, possibly, Gwen might have lost it at some point in the story. But that's still a lot of other money boxes that Gwen reckons only her hand can retrieve, and there's ever so many things one could do with all that.
Big Finish not being entirely consistent with these BBC audiobooks, or, implying Torchwood's running costs are somewhat stupendous.
I like this one less the more I turn it around in my head, and I wasnt overly impressed as it was happening.
I want to use the parts for something else, I dont think they quite worked here.
I did like the voices though.
This one I definitely haven't heard before. Dont have it on CD, even though its from 2012, just this apple books on my phone I've been listening.
It's set after Miracle Day but has a flashback to the full team; sometime after Rhys knows what they do for a living but while Owen is alive, which I think narrows it down a lot.
I haven't seen much of Miracle Day but it's rather large print about what the relevant bits are. There's a baby to put in danger, Gwen is last Torchwood agent standing, and there's sort of a theme about living on in memory, only it's Torchwood so that is not, as it turns out, a good thing. Talk about the Miracle as a fate worse than death. Lots of mummified corpses, used up before their time. A 'joyrider' alien, hopping around and using people up. Plenty of solid horror elements.
I'm not sure it adds up in the end though. It's giving me that niggly feeling of nice elements now turn them around a bit and find the heart of things. It all felt a bit beginning y. And the story only actually caught up to the characters for like five minutes? And they didnt have to discover anything, realise anything, or do anything, the story just... happened. So that's not ideal.
Also the story made Jack immune to the joyrider, which is the cheapest easiest way out and skips most of the horror you could squeeze out of the situation.
Also team Torchwood have to be really very stupid to end up in as much danger as they managed in the flashback, which I will grant is consistent with their character, but always flipping annoying. Leave even one person on watch or just dont walk one hundred percent of the people aware of the situation into the psychic field and you'd get a different story. Seems a bit daft.
The only bit that seemed like a loose end is how much money Torchwood is implied to have stashed around the world. Gwen is giving the stash they find away to someone in America, or, possibly, Gwen might have lost it at some point in the story. But that's still a lot of other money boxes that Gwen reckons only her hand can retrieve, and there's ever so many things one could do with all that.
Big Finish not being entirely consistent with these BBC audiobooks, or, implying Torchwood's running costs are somewhat stupendous.
I like this one less the more I turn it around in my head, and I wasnt overly impressed as it was happening.
I want to use the parts for something else, I dont think they quite worked here.
I did like the voices though.