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May. 8th, 2026 01:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI have been relistening through 8 and Charley starting from the beginning, though I don't have Stones of Venice or Invaders from Mars loaded on the device I'm using so I skipped those for now. ... getting out of bed to grab a CD or use my other computer seemed like Effort. And I'd listened to Minuet in Hell a while ago and did not feel the need to do so again.
Storm Warning is good, Sword of Orion is pretty good, Chimes of Midnight is tedious and annoying and I don't get why it's so popular.
Seasons of Fear did a good ending from a redemption point of view but the paradox of it all is a lot.
Embrace the Darkness was proper creepy and doing audio correctly, and I like the resolution.
Time of the Daleks likes Shakespeare more than I do, and yet does nothing with him. Also just saying that none of the time travel should work doesn't make it less irritating. Even if time travel through mirrors is perfectly acceptable in other episodes so I suppose I also might not have minded if they didn't keep saying it doesn't work.
Neverland is in the right place because I was getting *really* fed up with Charley being inexplicable magic.
Zagreus did at least make a sufficiency of sense on this relisten, but I still can't actually like it.
Scherzo is a level of messed up about dying for each other that makes me vaguely worried about the author, even before you get to the cannibalism, and while it uses audio correctly in many respects, with the terror of not having any sense but hearing, it makes itself full of bad noises deliberately uncomfortable to listen to, so I would on the whole rather not. I understand many people like it and find it the right kind of messed up shippy. I just make wrinkly forehead when I think about it and consider it horror all the way down.
So today I relistened to Creed of the Kromon.
... I see a lot of posts on tumblr pass by referencing
the author's very specific ...interests
and the level of body horror applied to Charley as a means of getting her to breed
after mind control talking her into eating until she can't move
is just
uncomfortable
on more than one level.
It is a bit more dark than I expect from Doctor Who.
I can see why this story had several of its story elements but it also only had two women and the other existed to get fridged by her husband. So I think probably someone should have poked it with a stick a bit more. And maybe done something different instead.
I don't know if I'll keep listening these tonight but they're definitely solid audios even if they are over twenty years old now.
Storm Warning is good, Sword of Orion is pretty good, Chimes of Midnight is tedious and annoying and I don't get why it's so popular.
Seasons of Fear did a good ending from a redemption point of view but the paradox of it all is a lot.
Embrace the Darkness was proper creepy and doing audio correctly, and I like the resolution.
Time of the Daleks likes Shakespeare more than I do, and yet does nothing with him. Also just saying that none of the time travel should work doesn't make it less irritating. Even if time travel through mirrors is perfectly acceptable in other episodes so I suppose I also might not have minded if they didn't keep saying it doesn't work.
Neverland is in the right place because I was getting *really* fed up with Charley being inexplicable magic.
Zagreus did at least make a sufficiency of sense on this relisten, but I still can't actually like it.
Scherzo is a level of messed up about dying for each other that makes me vaguely worried about the author, even before you get to the cannibalism, and while it uses audio correctly in many respects, with the terror of not having any sense but hearing, it makes itself full of bad noises deliberately uncomfortable to listen to, so I would on the whole rather not. I understand many people like it and find it the right kind of messed up shippy. I just make wrinkly forehead when I think about it and consider it horror all the way down.
So today I relistened to Creed of the Kromon.
... I see a lot of posts on tumblr pass by referencing
the author's very specific ...interests
and the level of body horror applied to Charley as a means of getting her to breed
after mind control talking her into eating until she can't move
is just
uncomfortable
on more than one level.
It is a bit more dark than I expect from Doctor Who.
I can see why this story had several of its story elements but it also only had two women and the other existed to get fridged by her husband. So I think probably someone should have poked it with a stick a bit more. And maybe done something different instead.
I don't know if I'll keep listening these tonight but they're definitely solid audios even if they are over twenty years old now.