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beccaelizabethhttps://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/torchwood-everyone-s-dead-on-floor-3-3214
This was a solid 5 stars out of 5. The content warnings are well earned for something that never leaves the office. It starts out so ordinary and petty and then drops the year on you hard. It's like opening a box to find it full of jeweled beetles eating through everything, including a layer of bones. Everyone is so vividly and specifically detailed, even the dead ones. And even when I was sure something awful was going to happen it had me gripped on exactly which awful when.
This is really really good work.
And the only regular Torchwood character in it is an audio exclusive, Norton Folgate again. Who is someone you can plausibly show doing nearly anything as long as it's twisty so he's very useful to have around. But the Torchwood range covers the whole Torchwood historical era and dips in to so many lives we don't have a canon framework for so they can do anything. I've seen people complain about that because they want to revisit the characters from the first two seasons on TV but I think it's one of the great strengths of the range.
Though I can see how it is difficult to market something on the strength that you never know what you're going to get.
If you want to listen an audio where you start off thinking the corpses are going to be the horror and then learn, this audio is absolutely recommended.
... if you want a nice adventure where something gets won and it all packs neatly in a blue box in the end you want one of the other ranges...
This was a solid 5 stars out of 5. The content warnings are well earned for something that never leaves the office. It starts out so ordinary and petty and then drops the year on you hard. It's like opening a box to find it full of jeweled beetles eating through everything, including a layer of bones. Everyone is so vividly and specifically detailed, even the dead ones. And even when I was sure something awful was going to happen it had me gripped on exactly which awful when.
This is really really good work.
And the only regular Torchwood character in it is an audio exclusive, Norton Folgate again. Who is someone you can plausibly show doing nearly anything as long as it's twisty so he's very useful to have around. But the Torchwood range covers the whole Torchwood historical era and dips in to so many lives we don't have a canon framework for so they can do anything. I've seen people complain about that because they want to revisit the characters from the first two seasons on TV but I think it's one of the great strengths of the range.
Though I can see how it is difficult to market something on the strength that you never know what you're going to get.
If you want to listen an audio where you start off thinking the corpses are going to be the horror and then learn, this audio is absolutely recommended.
... if you want a nice adventure where something gets won and it all packs neatly in a blue box in the end you want one of the other ranges...