Not my sort of thing at all
Apr. 25th, 2025 11:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethToday I listened
Peri and the Piscon Paradox.
I gave it 1.5 stars on librarything, even though I had to add a digital file for I suspect the first time just to review it.
I felt like it was trying to be funny and hitting very mean, then landing on domestic violence as somewhat of a predestination paradox, like older her steered younger her towards it, even though the last few minutes made that irrelevant. So it felt to me to be a tonal mismatch and not an enjoyable one.
I listened it because the wiki said it explained what happened to Peri in the end. Which it does, sort of, but by saying the Time Lords intervened so many times there are actually five of her as of the end of the story, with logical possibility of more happening, so, that's...
It says the Time Lords wiped Peri's memories and sent her home, like with Jamie and Zoe. But only after other Time Lords had done other things to her timeline. So now there's five. And the one that stayed home gets to hear how she could have died but also how she could have had kids like she wanted. Which is a lot to deal with in the last few minutes of a story. It felt like that should be the story?
Instead there's a silly run around after accidentally killing a fishman, which is weird anyway because shouldn't the accidentally killing also be the story? But no. Silly impersonation thing. With random violent death.
Okay no, I'm not on board with whatever the story was trying to do.
It got one star for the actress doing really well at it and half a star because it properly points at Peri relevant
guy you think is cute suddenly becomes violent
and shines a big light on it being a Problem sized problem.
It's just everything else and how it was presented I don't see me relistening to.
Peri and the Piscon Paradox.
I gave it 1.5 stars on librarything, even though I had to add a digital file for I suspect the first time just to review it.
I felt like it was trying to be funny and hitting very mean, then landing on domestic violence as somewhat of a predestination paradox, like older her steered younger her towards it, even though the last few minutes made that irrelevant. So it felt to me to be a tonal mismatch and not an enjoyable one.
I listened it because the wiki said it explained what happened to Peri in the end. Which it does, sort of, but by saying the Time Lords intervened so many times there are actually five of her as of the end of the story, with logical possibility of more happening, so, that's...
It says the Time Lords wiped Peri's memories and sent her home, like with Jamie and Zoe. But only after other Time Lords had done other things to her timeline. So now there's five. And the one that stayed home gets to hear how she could have died but also how she could have had kids like she wanted. Which is a lot to deal with in the last few minutes of a story. It felt like that should be the story?
Instead there's a silly run around after accidentally killing a fishman, which is weird anyway because shouldn't the accidentally killing also be the story? But no. Silly impersonation thing. With random violent death.
Okay no, I'm not on board with whatever the story was trying to do.
It got one star for the actress doing really well at it and half a star because it properly points at Peri relevant
guy you think is cute suddenly becomes violent
and shines a big light on it being a Problem sized problem.
It's just everything else and how it was presented I don't see me relistening to.