BFA DW Colony of Fear
Nov. 8th, 2024 03:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabeth6 and Constance.
The chatty bits say it was recorded in lockdown so they could only use actors who had their own recording studio, and CB says they lost a day because he had to invest in better equipment when the first day made a bad noise, so, interesting limits.
It's a base under seige story made of Consequences, with the Doctor having a Secret, even from himself.
I think it forgot that if the Doctor doesn't know something his first assumption is it hasn't happened yet. There should have been a line assuming he was crossing his own timeline. If there was I missed it.
Constance doesn't know about regeneration yet so she doesn't know what she's seeing in security footage, and she has faith in the Doctor that the story deliberately questions.
It used the thing where Sarah Jane got left in Aberdeen and turned it up rather, so a companion we never met got left about fifty years early on the wrong planet. The thing is that makes it much less plausible. I mean they started out by describing the planet, it has cinnamon smell and purple soil amongst other things. It's a big universe though so that's not going to be unique. But still. With a small base to aim at and potentially miss it should have been very easy to check. So it's more difficult to believe.
Also, he traveled with 2 I think. Little with mop hair? I didn't think 2 was driving well enough to promise he'd be back in 5 minutes. But I do know him less well, due to all the missing bits.
But for some never specified reason the Doctor lost all memories of that companion, which sounds more extreme than what the Time Lords actually did to 2, but you never know.
I keep trying to just describe it and get into the story but I find I'm not quite buying it now it has finished. Like it's a good idea, that the Doctor left someone in the lurch and finds out about it much much much later, but I have Questions instead of feelings about that.
The running around being turned into bugs that are not wirrn seemed fine.
I can see the components, the guy who got lost finally returned home, but brought the monsters with him, and they went around promising the rest of the isolated colony that they could belong. There was a thing where someone's husband didn't love her but the hive mind promised she would be home with them. It has the right parts.
... I wondered why people scared of a pheremonal trigger weren't wearing protective masks, or suits, or for that matter why they weren't suited up to go hunting, since armour is a thing humans have invented. But if they were the plot would just punch a stinger through the armour. ... it would bother me less though, if they'd started with taking precautions.
I don't think this one brought me along with it emotionally, I'm feeling niggly and annoyed instead.
That may well not be the story's fault. I'll give it another go later.
The chatty bits say it was recorded in lockdown so they could only use actors who had their own recording studio, and CB says they lost a day because he had to invest in better equipment when the first day made a bad noise, so, interesting limits.
It's a base under seige story made of Consequences, with the Doctor having a Secret, even from himself.
I think it forgot that if the Doctor doesn't know something his first assumption is it hasn't happened yet. There should have been a line assuming he was crossing his own timeline. If there was I missed it.
Constance doesn't know about regeneration yet so she doesn't know what she's seeing in security footage, and she has faith in the Doctor that the story deliberately questions.
It used the thing where Sarah Jane got left in Aberdeen and turned it up rather, so a companion we never met got left about fifty years early on the wrong planet. The thing is that makes it much less plausible. I mean they started out by describing the planet, it has cinnamon smell and purple soil amongst other things. It's a big universe though so that's not going to be unique. But still. With a small base to aim at and potentially miss it should have been very easy to check. So it's more difficult to believe.
Also, he traveled with 2 I think. Little with mop hair? I didn't think 2 was driving well enough to promise he'd be back in 5 minutes. But I do know him less well, due to all the missing bits.
But for some never specified reason the Doctor lost all memories of that companion, which sounds more extreme than what the Time Lords actually did to 2, but you never know.
I keep trying to just describe it and get into the story but I find I'm not quite buying it now it has finished. Like it's a good idea, that the Doctor left someone in the lurch and finds out about it much much much later, but I have Questions instead of feelings about that.
The running around being turned into bugs that are not wirrn seemed fine.
I can see the components, the guy who got lost finally returned home, but brought the monsters with him, and they went around promising the rest of the isolated colony that they could belong. There was a thing where someone's husband didn't love her but the hive mind promised she would be home with them. It has the right parts.
... I wondered why people scared of a pheremonal trigger weren't wearing protective masks, or suits, or for that matter why they weren't suited up to go hunting, since armour is a thing humans have invented. But if they were the plot would just punch a stinger through the armour. ... it would bother me less though, if they'd started with taking precautions.
I don't think this one brought me along with it emotionally, I'm feeling niggly and annoyed instead.
That may well not be the story's fault. I'll give it another go later.