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Post by bobod on Mar 28, 2016 2:04:29 GMT
Here's the thread for this week's story in the Quentin Listenthru.
Blood Dance by Stephen Mark Rainey, directed by Darren Gross. Starring David Selby and Lisa Richards.
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Post by omega on Mar 28, 2016 5:15:25 GMT
It feels almost like a Dorian story, if you tweak a few of the details. It's a pity SMR wasn't able to write any Dorian Gray, indeed this may have been one of his last scripts for Big Finish.
Quentin is definitely at his more impressionable here, easily manipulated by Chandres and forced to get outside help to eliminate her deadly endeavor.
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Post by bobod on Mar 29, 2016 9:16:32 GMT
Caught up with the listenthru today waiting at the doctors, loved the funky version of Quentin's theme.
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Post by kimalysong on Mar 29, 2016 21:22:22 GMT
Another fun Quentin Story with a film noir feel to it, femme fatale and all. Quentin got off better than most noir protagonist. He did get the lady albeit not in quite the way he expected.
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Post by elkawho on Mar 30, 2016 0:38:00 GMT
This really is a creepy, disturbing story. Just the way I like my Dark Shadows. The conversation between Chandres and Quentin regarding guilt and survival was great. I think that this audio is the first one that speaks to the core of Quentin's character, even more than The Skin Walkers, IMO. That one was about Quentin, the wolf. How that part of his life has affected him. This one was about Quentin, the man.
I'm a big fan of Quentin's, so I'm really liking this listen-through.
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Post by silverednickle on Mar 31, 2016 15:36:57 GMT
Listened to this on Monday, but I keep forgetting to pop on here and post. Sorry all.
Blood Dance is a good audio, though it feels a lot more straightforward than The Skin Walkers. Chandres just seemed happy to run her speakeasy with her dancing girls. At one point, Chandres is performing a ceremony and I was tempted to think of the blue candles that were so popular in the Dark Shadows series. They must have ordered boatloads of them or maybe this was more of a Candle Opera than Soap Opera.
The effective use of scene and time allowed for some interesting perspective. It's not hard to imagine Quentin sneaking about, outsmarting the prohibitionists just for tonight's drink. I guess unlike the rest of the Collins family, he didn't have the money, nor a safe large enough to store it all. The Prohibition laws only outlawed selling of alcohol, so many of the most elite just installed massive vaults and spent tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars to fill them up, or bring it over from Cuba (Bacardi rum anyone?).
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Post by Trace on Apr 1, 2016 0:56:12 GMT
Listened to this on Monday, but I keep forgetting to pop on here and post. Sorry all. Blood Dance is a good audio, though it feels a lot more straightforward than The Skin Walkers. Chandres just seemed happy to run her speakeasy with her dancing girls. At one point, Chandres is performing a ceremony and I was tempted to think of the blue candles that were so popular in the Dark Shadows series. They must have ordered boatloads of them or maybe this was more of a Candle Opera than Soap Opera. The effective use of scene and time allowed for some interesting perspective. It's not hard to imagine Quentin sneaking about, outsmarting the prohibitionists just for tonight's drink. I guess unlike the rest of the Collins family, he didn't have the money, nor a safe large enough to store it all. The Prohibition laws only outlawed selling of alcohol, so many of the most elite just installed massive vaults and spent tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars to fill them up, or bring it over from Cuba (Bacardi rum anyone?). Mr. Bacardi (yes, THAT Bacardi) was my college roommate. We shared an apartment with three other guys for 4 semesters and 1 Summer. He lived in Puerto Rico and Miami, but as you know, his family was Cuban. |
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Post by Trace on Apr 2, 2016 4:45:20 GMT
I enjoyed the revisit tremendously. It's a very unsettling and creepy story--even the Arcadia Club setting is so very bizarre and other-worldly! It's fun hearing Lisa Richards do Chandres, a role so very different from Sabrina. I also think Quentin comes across really well in this...he fully admits his past transgressions, and he manages to show real strength of character and love here. Not that we haven't seen it from him many other times as well, but the "cad" is almost absent in this one. The description of prohibition-era Chicago speakeasies, alleys, streets, etc. is excellent, and I do like the two-hander effect once again here. Do we think that Chandres is a vampire? It's not explicitly stated, but she does need the blood of the innocent to live. |
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Post by omega on Apr 2, 2016 4:57:08 GMT
Do we think that Chandres is a vampire? It's not explicitly stated, but she does need the blood of the innocent to live. It seems to be more a branch of witchcraft. She is using information and equipment from the Blue Rose, which is a powerful coven based in Chicago who tend to use blood in their rituals. When Quentin finds Chandres with the dead girl he hears chanting and sees candles used as part of the ritual. This appears to be a darker version of witchcraft than typical magic users we see or hear in Dark Shadows. I think that the potency of blood in conjunction with witchcraft is mentioned in Bloodlust, one character (Harry I think) wondering why it all seems to come down to blood. Since I'm about to faint from squeamishness, I'll end this post. |
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