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Post by Zagreus on Jul 9, 2017 19:40:01 GMT
Torchwood: Everyone Says Hello  Get it on Audible HERE, or, as part of Torchwood Tales: Torchwood Audio Originals HEREWritten by: Dan AbnettNarrated by: Burn GormanLength: 2 hrs and 29 minsAn exciting, original short story written exclusively for audio, featuring the Torchwood characters and read by Burn Gorman, who plays Owen in the television series.
Across Cardiff, ordinary people are behaving in odd ways: saying hello to one another and going out of their way to greet people. Torchwood discovers that an alien communications field is gathering strength in the city. The team must find the device responsible and shut it off - before civil unrest engulfs the city. |
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Post by Zagreus on Jul 9, 2017 19:46:50 GMT
First off, Burn Gorman does a splendid job reading this. He does a fair approximation of everyone, getting their accents and mannerisms across, as well as a variety of random voices for all the random people involved in the story.
Like Hidden, this is an 2-disc release, and splits the team up into groups, each of which have a meaty chunk of the adventure to themselves, no-one feels left out. This story follows the rather formulaic standard of early Torchwood stories, in that somethign has come through The Rift and now Torchwood has to deal with it. Only, this time, the result is a very odd contemporary zombie apocalypse filled with Walmart greaters. Instead of brains, they simply want to know your name...
There a section in the middle that hops around to various random bystandards, showing their parts in the slow onset of the disaster, which feels exactly like a description of the short of quick montage shots of "ordinary folk" that were so common in the RTD era of DW/TW on television.
There's not a whole lot going on in the story, but it's a good'un.
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Post by Whovitt on Dec 2, 2020 8:30:43 GMT
I'm listening through all the "audio originals" at the moment, but of the two I've heard so far I thought this was easily the weakest. It probably doesn't help I was falling asleep during the last 10-15 minutes of the first disc, but I also didn't feel like I'd missed anything when I picked up the second. There were far too many "Here's another example of people saying hello" scenes for my liking. It really killed the pace in the first half. The second half was much pacer, but it mostly boiled to down to a car chase and then a foot chase, with very little of anything significant happening until about 10 minutes from the end, where everything was rushed to a conclusion. Not a great listen if I'm honest, but I'd never discourage anyone else giving any release a go for themselves either  |
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Post by Ela on May 25, 2021 17:03:44 GMT
I listened to this a couple of years ago. I enjoyed it, actually.
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Post by sherlock on Oct 6, 2022 9:32:51 GMT
This one started well with the whimsical concept evolving nicely into more sinister Torchwood territory, with neat glimpses of the unfolding apocalypse. Unfortunately it drags on and on. Ages is spent on Pratt but then he’s completely irrelevant to the story’s ending! He just drives the team around for an action sequence and then becomes an inconvenience for Gwen.
If anything so far the Torchwood Tales are making me really grateful for Big Finish’s more rapid pacing and slimmer cast of characters. The two so far have had decent ideas but dragging them on for 2 and half hours doesn’t work.
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