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Post by Audio Watchdog on Jun 17, 2017 0:44:33 GMT
Kind of an odd box set to me. Up until Month 23 I felt like Jack was more a supporting character rather than the lead in his own series. Wednesday for Beginners was the head & shoulders winner of this set for me. Camille Coduri absolutely slays. I read the complaints people make about Gemma Redgrave in the UNIT box sets and it is that lack of vocal color that holds me back from loving Jack-centric Torchwood audios and indeed this box set. John Barrowman very often just sounds flat to me. A well written set that has some great things in it.
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Post by davygallagher on Jun 17, 2017 6:21:39 GMT
Kind of an odd box set to me. Up until Month 23 I felt like Jack was more a supporting character rather than the lead in his own series. Wednesday for Beginners was the head & shoulders winner of this set for me. Camille Coduri absolutely slays. I read the complaints people make about Gemma Redgrave in the UNIT box sets and it is that lack of vocal color that holds me back from loving Jack-centric Torchwood audios and indeed this box set. John Barrowman very often just sounds flat to me. A well written set that has some great things in it. I've said for years that's the main issue with TW - Barrowman is a better supporting player than leading man. He's perhaps the weakest actor in the show but has bags of charisma which can't be taught. He has McCoy syndrome too - where his angry shouting to depict anger is often funny rather than threatening. On audio, where you focus more on the words and the delivery without visuals, often his delivery of a line is off and sometimes downright bad. Yet, again, as this box shows - particularly in WfB - he's a likeable, fun actor who can elevate a story when used well. |
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Post by Ela on Jun 22, 2017 4:10:17 GMT
Finished Hour 25 this morning. A great set. And while there was no full arc for the set, there was a mini one with Wednesdays for Beginners and Hour 25 tying together nicely. Definitely nice that I listened to Wednesdays first. Now, just when did the stories fit in? The Year After I Died - self-explanatory for the most part. During 200,101, the year after he died/was brought back in The Parting of the Ways. He apparently doesn't know he can't die yet. Wednesdays for Beginners - sometime in the first (?) series of New Who. Jack is working with Torchwood Three at the time. One Enchanted Evening - After Children of Earth, after Jack meets Alonso in The End of Time, the meeting being set up by the Doctor. Month 25 - while being a time agent in the 51st Century. It seems both Jacks are from this period in his life? I don't think the second Jack is a much older immortal version. It doesn't seem that he has started becoming a con man in time. He has just been enjoying himself while unknowingly losing 2 years of his life being a time manipulator/assassin. Does this sound right? Did we know his original name was Javic Piotr Thane? Was that mentioned in the second series of Torchwood? Your summary of when you think the episodes fit in sounds good to me. I don't think we were ever told Jack's real name in Torchwood; only that the name he uses (Jack Harkness) isn't really his own name. |
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Post by Ela on Jun 23, 2017 23:11:12 GMT
I just finished re-listening to these stories. I thought Wednesdays for Beginners and Month 25 were the best stories. Though I have to say, Katy Manning was a riot as Mother Nothing in One Enchanted Evening.
Thinking about the conjecture upthread about when in the time line these stories fall, I was wondering: Do we actually know when in the Doctor's timeline Children of Earth takes place? It would have to have been a time when the Doctor was not around, right?
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Post by TinDogPodcast on Jul 11, 2017 7:17:17 GMT
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Post by omega on Aug 29, 2017 7:35:56 GMT
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Post by axelotl38 on Feb 10, 2019 13:03:09 GMT
So I know this is a range that began and ended 1.5-2 years ago, but I was thinking today about what you could do with a further set. I think there's several possibilities, and I did love how different this set felt, compared to the Torchwood audios. I think there's great potential here for more Captain Jack, but the Doctor Who kind. Captain Jack with River Song (as I feel like that's a pairing that works for 1, maybe 2 stories, but not a whole boxset). Jack with The Time Agency, perhaps with Captain John in their early days (which I know is more Torchwood, but I think that could work). I just think there's plenty of potential to have Captain Jack sprinkled around other ranges at Big Finish outside Torchwood, much like how River Song has been able to function with both her own series (7 Boxsets), but also as a guest-star in Doom Coalition, Ravenous, UNIT and Eighth of March.
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Post by agentten on Feb 10, 2019 19:08:36 GMT
I'm surprised there haven't been more sets. Perhaps it's a scheduling thing, with Barrowman's studio time being focused on Torchwood. I recall that this was announced around the time that River set 1 was announced, but as we know, River has continued at a strong pace, but I haven't seen anything about another Jack volume. Hopefully, we'll see more sets in the future.
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Post by Bazoolium on Feb 10, 2019 22:22:52 GMT
I'm surprised there haven't been more sets. Perhaps it's a scheduling thing, with Barrowman's studio time being focused on Torchwood. I recall that this was announced around the time that River set 1 was announced, but as we know, River has continued at a strong pace, but I haven't seen anything about another Jack volume. Hopefully, we'll see more sets in the future. I hope he pops up in River's series. |
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