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beccaelizabethToday's adventure was a relisten, so I'm pretty sure I reviewed it before when it was new.
6, Flip, and an adventure where fiction crosses into reality.
Which has plenty of potential for storytelling, and should manage to be pretty much horrifying, as the character gets a chance to react to their creator, but, well, they distinguish between layers of unreality by making one really badly written.
It is trying to be funny. Or parodic at least.
Also, I say 6 and Flip, but for reasons Flip was barely in it, which seems sort of rude?
So I did not in fact like it very much.
But the useful bit: the Whoniverse at least via audios includes a machine that can turn any fiction into reality, in its own pocket dimension, and the overlap it with the Whoniverse, creating a door any fictional can step out of. It had more power and flexibility implied than the Land of Fiction with 2 and Jamie and Zoe, because the characters didnt have to stick to a script, they existed all the time and made stuff up. They were, within their constraints, real.
Sure this story destroys the machine they have, but it was salvaged tech in the first place, implied to have destroyed its creators, or possibly if it was me given them somewhere more interesting to go.
By the end of the story it do seem the survivors have concluded the machine is a very bad idea
but
that never stops story.
So in theory this is more powerful than the holodeck. The characters can step out and bring the laws of their reality, including ludicrous technology, with them. Or Whoniverse people can step in and be treated as if life and death works on story rules, but they wrote the story.
Basically the mcguffin should be infinitely powerful and able to cure all ills.
I of course looked at all this and got distracted by the fact that if I had access to such a thing I'd have watched all my shows on it before I did a screening for anyone else. Possibly by accident before figuring out what it really did, but possibly on purpose because creating life seems like an extra cool idea. Especially if they can then step out of the screen.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer in significantly more than 3d.
I'd have run right into the same problem the story set up, I just wouldn't have had to film anything first.
... wonder if it works for xbox games. wonder if you'd get low poly people, or if it would increase the resolution to actual life size. wonder if you could jump start the resolution increase by filming a new insert...
I am in this case totally the person that kicks off the apocalypse, because the apocalypse would look so pretty on the life size 3d screen.
Also, I was a bit unclear on if these generated worlds actually stop existing. Or if they continue, once started. Because there's a lot more stories in the latter, obviously, and you'd just want to go around making universes if you could.
This isn't the only time the Whoniverse has come up with similar technologies that bridge fantasy or create worlds, it's just with this one it sounds like popping in a dvd would be an integral part of the process, so the actual plot paled in the face of those possibilities.
Not my favourite audio, but a crossover generator of unparalleled proportions.
6, Flip, and an adventure where fiction crosses into reality.
Which has plenty of potential for storytelling, and should manage to be pretty much horrifying, as the character gets a chance to react to their creator, but, well, they distinguish between layers of unreality by making one really badly written.
It is trying to be funny. Or parodic at least.
Also, I say 6 and Flip, but for reasons Flip was barely in it, which seems sort of rude?
So I did not in fact like it very much.
But the useful bit: the Whoniverse at least via audios includes a machine that can turn any fiction into reality, in its own pocket dimension, and the overlap it with the Whoniverse, creating a door any fictional can step out of. It had more power and flexibility implied than the Land of Fiction with 2 and Jamie and Zoe, because the characters didnt have to stick to a script, they existed all the time and made stuff up. They were, within their constraints, real.
Sure this story destroys the machine they have, but it was salvaged tech in the first place, implied to have destroyed its creators, or possibly if it was me given them somewhere more interesting to go.
By the end of the story it do seem the survivors have concluded the machine is a very bad idea
but
that never stops story.
So in theory this is more powerful than the holodeck. The characters can step out and bring the laws of their reality, including ludicrous technology, with them. Or Whoniverse people can step in and be treated as if life and death works on story rules, but they wrote the story.
Basically the mcguffin should be infinitely powerful and able to cure all ills.
I of course looked at all this and got distracted by the fact that if I had access to such a thing I'd have watched all my shows on it before I did a screening for anyone else. Possibly by accident before figuring out what it really did, but possibly on purpose because creating life seems like an extra cool idea. Especially if they can then step out of the screen.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer in significantly more than 3d.
I'd have run right into the same problem the story set up, I just wouldn't have had to film anything first.
... wonder if it works for xbox games. wonder if you'd get low poly people, or if it would increase the resolution to actual life size. wonder if you could jump start the resolution increase by filming a new insert...
I am in this case totally the person that kicks off the apocalypse, because the apocalypse would look so pretty on the life size 3d screen.
Also, I was a bit unclear on if these generated worlds actually stop existing. Or if they continue, once started. Because there's a lot more stories in the latter, obviously, and you'd just want to go around making universes if you could.
This isn't the only time the Whoniverse has come up with similar technologies that bridge fantasy or create worlds, it's just with this one it sounds like popping in a dvd would be an integral part of the process, so the actual plot paled in the face of those possibilities.
Not my favourite audio, but a crossover generator of unparalleled proportions.