Big Finish Audio Doctor Who Cold Fusion
Jul. 31st, 2024 02:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethRecently I relistened to DW Memory Bank And Other Stories. I think I agree with earlier me https://beccaelizabeth.dreamwidth.org/3437398.html but I was more impressed with the layers of sadness and trauma this time. And the complaining about stereotypes and not actually being seen. Stories as memory but rewriteable. Repeat Offender ended on a good note, the ability of one person standing against an unjust system to make a difference. They were all good stuff with fresh takes.
Today's listening was Cold Fusion, where 5 newly regenerated and 7 in his scheming phase tangle up to deal with something involving a lost Time Lord and ancient time technology.
It's A Novel Adaptation, and it has a very different vibe to the Big Finish usual. Reinforcing my general feeling I like the audios better than the I would those novels.
I bought it because the wiki made several references to it while I was looking up Susan but I feel like the wiki made rather more sense of it than I did. It was being fragmented and mysterious and contradictory as Clues that there was something wrong with time, as far as I could figure, so I was left feeling like I learned net zero.
It did a good job of introducing the unfamiliar to me characters, the plot all makes sense by DW standards, I like some of the ideas, and it set up the kind of dilemma that 5 and 7 would react to differently while both being The Doctor, which is neat. But somehow when you mix it all together I have to chalk it up as Not For Me.
I won't rate it for quality because it's like finding out I don't like mango when it might be a perfectly good mango.
Good bits but I'll go back to the other audios thanks.
Today's listening was Cold Fusion, where 5 newly regenerated and 7 in his scheming phase tangle up to deal with something involving a lost Time Lord and ancient time technology.
It's A Novel Adaptation, and it has a very different vibe to the Big Finish usual. Reinforcing my general feeling I like the audios better than the I would those novels.
I bought it because the wiki made several references to it while I was looking up Susan but I feel like the wiki made rather more sense of it than I did. It was being fragmented and mysterious and contradictory as Clues that there was something wrong with time, as far as I could figure, so I was left feeling like I learned net zero.
It did a good job of introducing the unfamiliar to me characters, the plot all makes sense by DW standards, I like some of the ideas, and it set up the kind of dilemma that 5 and 7 would react to differently while both being The Doctor, which is neat. But somehow when you mix it all together I have to chalk it up as Not For Me.
I won't rate it for quality because it's like finding out I don't like mango when it might be a perfectly good mango.
Good bits but I'll go back to the other audios thanks.