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May. 23rd, 2026 11:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI have relistened to Charley Pollard up through Brotherhood of the Daleks.
I haven't relistened that one for ages because it was on the big computer not the app in my pocket.
My cunning plan to improve my computer with a little card and put More Doctor Who on it has more or less worked. ... it stopped working twice and started working again when I restarted the computer, but the third adventure went off without a hitch. Current theory: do not move files around while playing things off that drive, it only almost works. Shall see if that holds or if it will get stuck again later.
Brotherhood of the Daleks is nuts. Like, What If The Daleks Hallucinated So Hard They Became Marxists. . I read a few reviews and they seem balanced between being impressed at the audacity and pointing out that to understand what is going on properly you need to have watched TV episodes and listened a large handful of Big Finish, and even then it's going to try and trick you many. Getting lost in the twists seems to be the desired outcome. Also it does the thing where it goes to the credits and then continues the story, which is likely to lose you when you're trying to listen on a tiny pocket mp3 player on the bus and can't see the track length. Today I had the whole screen to see the extra minutes so that worked okay.
Charley is getting more annoying to me, as she continues to be the very attached romantic she always has been, but with ever so much more knowledge of how bad she could break the web of time. She should know better, but for all the same reasons, she's not the person who can let go.
... not a deliberate Scherzo reference but...
I did like the scene where she explained her emotions to the Doctor but the ways the story jumps out of the way of him having to react are getting annoying too.
As originally told there were years in between these episodes. Such a weird pacing issue to deal with. It's more or less working listened all in a row.
But this is not my favourite companion.
I also started to listen to a new to me story, 'The Further Adventuress', but I felt like the first episodes were just call backs and references to remind us who Charley even was, and since I just relistened I do recall. Also the bit with the gorilla was just odd, as well as being part of a stack of literary references set in Paris. The story just felt like it was Being Clever so I wandered off back to the monthly range.
... I will finish listening the monthly range eventually, but that day is not yet this one...
Long day of listening, more listening available, pretty cool.
I haven't relistened that one for ages because it was on the big computer not the app in my pocket.
My cunning plan to improve my computer with a little card and put More Doctor Who on it has more or less worked. ... it stopped working twice and started working again when I restarted the computer, but the third adventure went off without a hitch. Current theory: do not move files around while playing things off that drive, it only almost works. Shall see if that holds or if it will get stuck again later.
Brotherhood of the Daleks is nuts. Like, What If The Daleks Hallucinated So Hard They Became Marxists. . I read a few reviews and they seem balanced between being impressed at the audacity and pointing out that to understand what is going on properly you need to have watched TV episodes and listened a large handful of Big Finish, and even then it's going to try and trick you many. Getting lost in the twists seems to be the desired outcome. Also it does the thing where it goes to the credits and then continues the story, which is likely to lose you when you're trying to listen on a tiny pocket mp3 player on the bus and can't see the track length. Today I had the whole screen to see the extra minutes so that worked okay.
Charley is getting more annoying to me, as she continues to be the very attached romantic she always has been, but with ever so much more knowledge of how bad she could break the web of time. She should know better, but for all the same reasons, she's not the person who can let go.
... not a deliberate Scherzo reference but...
I did like the scene where she explained her emotions to the Doctor but the ways the story jumps out of the way of him having to react are getting annoying too.
As originally told there were years in between these episodes. Such a weird pacing issue to deal with. It's more or less working listened all in a row.
But this is not my favourite companion.
I also started to listen to a new to me story, 'The Further Adventuress', but I felt like the first episodes were just call backs and references to remind us who Charley even was, and since I just relistened I do recall. Also the bit with the gorilla was just odd, as well as being part of a stack of literary references set in Paris. The story just felt like it was Being Clever so I wandered off back to the monthly range.
... I will finish listening the monthly range eventually, but that day is not yet this one...
Long day of listening, more listening available, pretty cool.