Am still here
Jan. 5th, 2026 06:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI'm feeling all slow and January, which is not an ideal state, but pressing fast forwards on the calendar does not tend to work. So I am actively planning to do A Thing per day and putting it on my magnet board with the little stars for achievements. Listen A Story is currently a star worthy achievement.
So it took me multiple days to get through this 6th Doctor and Peri box set but they were quite good stories
https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-sixth-doctor-and-peri-volume-01-2128
... just calling it sixth doctor and peri makes it teensy bit difficult to search on, huh...
The Headless Ones I listened to longest ago and I don't remember specific Good Bits but it was a Doctor Who shaped story.
'Like' has a very social media mediated story and I rather liked it. To make the plot go I feel it made the Doctor speak too poorly but it had to be simples to fit it all in an hour. Distorted edits and social media hate campaigns are good topical stuff. Making the Dislike button actually kill you? Varos only did that to the Governor, this just made it planet wide. The focus on trying to save refugees and making the solution a social media campaign making them Funny also feels topical and the right amount of messed up.
The thing is if this was a Torchwood story it wouldn't be very different, they'd just set it when the technology was newer and team Torchwood would be the ones pressing Dislike sometimes. The Doctor doesn't screw up that particular way. Torchwood would have them saying Dislike for to keep their algorithm tidy and then realising what they've done.
The Vanity Trap did some interesting things with time technology and the end of an era feel of studios shutting down. Also the behind the scenes stuff feels like they drew a lot from Doctor Who and put a spin on it, as Big Finish should. Good scary ideas and plausible characters.
"Conflict Theory" was doing a lot of Being Funny about psychiatry that I didn't really vibe with.
It also mentioned that at this point in Big Finish, post warrior queen, Peri has been travelling with the Doctor for twelve years.
But then it rug pulled the truth status of everything we'd heard so we don't know, by the end.
... just after I noted that Torchwood does that a lot and Doctor Who doesn't tend to.
I don't think I like Nev Fountain's stories. Don't quite click for me.
All the stories could have been appreciated more by someone with a bit more awake focus to spare so I might have a different opinion of them later.
But I have a Nice Walk scheduled for this week, if the weather cooperates, so I'll see whatever sun there is, and the year do turn onwards.
So it took me multiple days to get through this 6th Doctor and Peri box set but they were quite good stories
https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/doctor-who-the-sixth-doctor-and-peri-volume-01-2128
... just calling it sixth doctor and peri makes it teensy bit difficult to search on, huh...
The Headless Ones I listened to longest ago and I don't remember specific Good Bits but it was a Doctor Who shaped story.
'Like' has a very social media mediated story and I rather liked it. To make the plot go I feel it made the Doctor speak too poorly but it had to be simples to fit it all in an hour. Distorted edits and social media hate campaigns are good topical stuff. Making the Dislike button actually kill you? Varos only did that to the Governor, this just made it planet wide. The focus on trying to save refugees and making the solution a social media campaign making them Funny also feels topical and the right amount of messed up.
The thing is if this was a Torchwood story it wouldn't be very different, they'd just set it when the technology was newer and team Torchwood would be the ones pressing Dislike sometimes. The Doctor doesn't screw up that particular way. Torchwood would have them saying Dislike for to keep their algorithm tidy and then realising what they've done.
The Vanity Trap did some interesting things with time technology and the end of an era feel of studios shutting down. Also the behind the scenes stuff feels like they drew a lot from Doctor Who and put a spin on it, as Big Finish should. Good scary ideas and plausible characters.
"Conflict Theory" was doing a lot of Being Funny about psychiatry that I didn't really vibe with.
It also mentioned that at this point in Big Finish, post warrior queen, Peri has been travelling with the Doctor for twelve years.
But then it rug pulled the truth status of everything we'd heard so we don't know, by the end.
... just after I noted that Torchwood does that a lot and Doctor Who doesn't tend to.
I don't think I like Nev Fountain's stories. Don't quite click for me.
All the stories could have been appreciated more by someone with a bit more awake focus to spare so I might have a different opinion of them later.
But I have a Nice Walk scheduled for this week, if the weather cooperates, so I'll see whatever sun there is, and the year do turn onwards.
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Date: 2026-01-05 03:00 pm (UTC)But other than that today went okay, dishwasher, laundry, clean.