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beccaelizabethListened to Torchwood audio Child Free.
I don't think I liked it. The plot rolled along by Suzie just knowing things and guessing right first time? I feel like they needed a bit more handwavium in it. Honestly I'd have been fine with it if they did more bleepy monitor readings noises before she drew her conclusions, which they did plenty of at key moments so I guess I mean it didn't draw me in to believing she'd figured it out. Other than that the bits with the baby didn't seem to say anything new and didn't seem funny to me. I think this story just missed me.
Mostly it made me feel it has been A Very Long Time since Torchwood, and then I was feeling a bunch of stuff about time passing and not much happening in it, and honestly, the problem may well not lie with the audio.
So then I started a Hard play through of Wrath of the Righteous, but I feel like I've screwed up my build already so that's... stressful. I'm playing arcanist again and I picked Holy Water jet but it'll be a couple of levels before I need Holy Water so, you know, oops. I just figured I'd be chucking cantrips around for ages. But I keep missing. By Hard level the odds of hitting are not on your side. I haven't made it to Neathholm yet but I have used up all the Cure Light Wounds potions and spells. So I am quitting and pindering if I'll go after the wand. Hard fight, but good reward. ... probably I'll try and have to reload a bunch.
Previously I have been listening mostly to 6th Doctor audios. I am very close now to having listened to the whole Monthly Range, only a few years late. Memories of a Tyrant, Emissary of the Daleks, Plight of the Pimpernel. Got a theme going there, they meet someone who may or may not have done terrible things, for what they felt were important reasons, and have to sort out what they feel about that and how to respond. There's also chances for the Doctor to play dress up and be not quite himself. Actors having fun being layered characters. There's good stuff in them. And I liked the bit in Pimpernel about the power and danger in escapist stories. Plus the compare contrast on literary hero and science fiction versions. People trying to rewrite their own stories.
If I'd written this closer to the listening I'd have more to say about details in each but I went on to the next, and so here's an overview on interesting commonalities and a note to self to review things and not just open a notepad page that says Review at the top and the title.
I am hoping to get more sleep tonight, which numerically speaking should not be hard, and then I shall have another go at reading listening watching playing being interested.
I don't think I liked it. The plot rolled along by Suzie just knowing things and guessing right first time? I feel like they needed a bit more handwavium in it. Honestly I'd have been fine with it if they did more bleepy monitor readings noises before she drew her conclusions, which they did plenty of at key moments so I guess I mean it didn't draw me in to believing she'd figured it out. Other than that the bits with the baby didn't seem to say anything new and didn't seem funny to me. I think this story just missed me.
Mostly it made me feel it has been A Very Long Time since Torchwood, and then I was feeling a bunch of stuff about time passing and not much happening in it, and honestly, the problem may well not lie with the audio.
So then I started a Hard play through of Wrath of the Righteous, but I feel like I've screwed up my build already so that's... stressful. I'm playing arcanist again and I picked Holy Water jet but it'll be a couple of levels before I need Holy Water so, you know, oops. I just figured I'd be chucking cantrips around for ages. But I keep missing. By Hard level the odds of hitting are not on your side. I haven't made it to Neathholm yet but I have used up all the Cure Light Wounds potions and spells. So I am quitting and pindering if I'll go after the wand. Hard fight, but good reward. ... probably I'll try and have to reload a bunch.
Previously I have been listening mostly to 6th Doctor audios. I am very close now to having listened to the whole Monthly Range, only a few years late. Memories of a Tyrant, Emissary of the Daleks, Plight of the Pimpernel. Got a theme going there, they meet someone who may or may not have done terrible things, for what they felt were important reasons, and have to sort out what they feel about that and how to respond. There's also chances for the Doctor to play dress up and be not quite himself. Actors having fun being layered characters. There's good stuff in them. And I liked the bit in Pimpernel about the power and danger in escapist stories. Plus the compare contrast on literary hero and science fiction versions. People trying to rewrite their own stories.
If I'd written this closer to the listening I'd have more to say about details in each but I went on to the next, and so here's an overview on interesting commonalities and a note to self to review things and not just open a notepad page that says Review at the top and the title.
I am hoping to get more sleep tonight, which numerically speaking should not be hard, and then I shall have another go at reading listening watching playing being interested.