Torchwood: Salvage
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beccaelizabethhttps://www.bigfinish.com/ranges/v/torchwood
Big Finish audio adventures: Torchwood is on sale if you want some adventures. Ianto adventures tend to be excellent. The range is going to end soon with adventure 100 and the cover for it is proper frightening, so I look forwards to it and want to hide behind the sofa about it in equal measure, as it should be.
Mostly I have just been going very slowly at listening to Torchwood, since once I have listened them all there shall be no more to listen. Which is sad, but, how many shows get over a hundred extra episodes after they're off the TV, even as audios? Pretty awesome.
https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/torchwood-salvage-2997 is not Ianto but is by Gareth David Lloyd, and he does the voice for the AI of the SUV.
It is not my favourite of his works. One of the characters is autistic spectrum and another character is not exactly kind about it. I think the story was trying to be kinder but I'm not sure how it landed.
It's an interesting story partly because it is 15 years after the SUV's last contact with Torchwood in 2009. It has that weird anticipation of grief where the car is still existing in the time frame of the broadcast episodes and you know it is going to have to catch up. Like the rest of us.
But what happens is there's a man with a gun chsing two teenagers who drove away with the talking car, and one of them is trying to cope with that situation and the other is hiding by listening to his audio adventures.
I felt a bit talked to honestly.
Awkward.
It ends with everyone caught up with reality, nore or less, and coping with the here now, not just the bits of it they wanted to be true at the beginning.
So it is a story with some theme and strengths.
But I'm having a bunch of feelings about it and
mostly want to go back and relisten to more familiar audios
which is part of what the feelings is about.
I don't know how any of you would react to it.
Or what an honest review type rating would look like.
It's a story about Torchwood as we knew it being on the scrap heap and the feelings it brings up aren't the fun sort, but it tells what it sets out to and makes you have a bunch of feelings, so fair enough.
I am feeling like I'd rather go play a story where a scary monster gets put back in its box, but the ones about grief and the passage of time and facing up to difficult truths definitely have a place as well.
Big Finish audio adventures: Torchwood is on sale if you want some adventures. Ianto adventures tend to be excellent. The range is going to end soon with adventure 100 and the cover for it is proper frightening, so I look forwards to it and want to hide behind the sofa about it in equal measure, as it should be.
Mostly I have just been going very slowly at listening to Torchwood, since once I have listened them all there shall be no more to listen. Which is sad, but, how many shows get over a hundred extra episodes after they're off the TV, even as audios? Pretty awesome.
https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/torchwood-salvage-2997 is not Ianto but is by Gareth David Lloyd, and he does the voice for the AI of the SUV.
It is not my favourite of his works. One of the characters is autistic spectrum and another character is not exactly kind about it. I think the story was trying to be kinder but I'm not sure how it landed.
It's an interesting story partly because it is 15 years after the SUV's last contact with Torchwood in 2009. It has that weird anticipation of grief where the car is still existing in the time frame of the broadcast episodes and you know it is going to have to catch up. Like the rest of us.
But what happens is there's a man with a gun chsing two teenagers who drove away with the talking car, and one of them is trying to cope with that situation and the other is hiding by listening to his audio adventures.
I felt a bit talked to honestly.
Awkward.
It ends with everyone caught up with reality, nore or less, and coping with the here now, not just the bits of it they wanted to be true at the beginning.
So it is a story with some theme and strengths.
But I'm having a bunch of feelings about it and
mostly want to go back and relisten to more familiar audios
which is part of what the feelings is about.
I don't know how any of you would react to it.
Or what an honest review type rating would look like.
It's a story about Torchwood as we knew it being on the scrap heap and the feelings it brings up aren't the fun sort, but it tells what it sets out to and makes you have a bunch of feelings, so fair enough.
I am feeling like I'd rather go play a story where a scary monster gets put back in its box, but the ones about grief and the passage of time and facing up to difficult truths definitely have a place as well.