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Post by mark687 on Oct 23, 2019 9:31:27 GMT
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Oct 23, 2019 9:32:10 GMT
phew!
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Post by mark687 on Oct 23, 2019 12:09:36 GMT
Depending on your views on Drinking this is very darkly funny,
Its almost the TW version of a plot point from Partners in Crime or maybe DW MR The Wormery .
Dialogue is actually fairly clear to understand(you might need to repeat a couple of bits).
Good all round effort.
Cheers
Regards
mark687
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Post by themeddlingmonk on Oct 23, 2019 12:38:32 GMT
I enjoyed it, it was a lot of fun. I thought it was a bit similar to Made You Look though.
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Post by sherlock on Oct 23, 2019 14:00:56 GMT
Good stuff all in all. The drunk acting works well.
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Post by antartiks on Oct 23, 2019 22:15:28 GMT
Eh, I thought it was too long for what it had to say. Actors playing as if they were drunk is usually cringey and awkward for me. A rare misstep from Goss in my opinion.
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Post by elkawho on Oct 24, 2019 3:10:07 GMT
I spent the whole time thinking how the hell does she get out of this? I felt like James Goss backed himself into a corner with a story so exciting and Gwen's predicament being so unsolvable. How do you cure an unknown pathogen from your system that takes you over so quickly? There was no good way out of this one that ended with Gwen being alive and ok, so the ending was weak. But while it was going on? Excellent.
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Post by tuigirl on Oct 26, 2019 18:58:54 GMT
Oh wow.
This got pretty grim.
Good and interesting story.
Great acting.
Also, a nice change of pace for me.
I agree that the resolution was the weakest point of the story, but honestly, there was not much else they could have done in the space of an hour.
So yes, this wasn't too bad.
But now I need some time to recover....
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2019 19:15:23 GMT
There's something about the image of Eve Myles on the cover of a Torchwood audio. All black hair and black leather jacket. It just looks 'right' somehow. Yes, Smashed boasts another excellent cover.
The story - well, you know when you have that one friend who is blind drunk, and they think they are hilarious, but everybody else thinks they're acting like an idiot? Smashed could have been like that. But it isn't. Drunk Gwen is hilarious. Eve and Omar Austin as Martyn have some great scenes together, producing some genuine laugh-out-loud moments - before things get very grim, as tuigirl mentions above.
However, whilst the loudmouthed, profanity-filled story is excellent, it begins to outstay its welcome before the ending comes. There's too much of it, and the loudness becomes one-note. With a bit of script pruning here and there, I think it would have been a lot more effective. A shorter play for your bucks, maybe, but more satisfying.
I still love Gwen though!
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Post by tuigirl on Oct 26, 2019 19:21:35 GMT
There's something about the image of Eve Myles on the cover of a Torchwood audio. All black hair and black leather jacket. It just looks 'right' somehow. Yes, Smashed boasts another excellent cover.
The story - well, you know when you have that one friend who is blind drunk, and they think they are hilarious, but everybody else thinks they're acting like an idiot? Smashed could have been like that. But it isn't. Drunk Gwen is hilarious. Eve and Omar Austin as Martyn have some great scenes together, producing some genuine laugh-out-loud moments - before things get very grim, as tuigirl mentions above.
However, whilst the loudmouthed, profanity-filled story is excellent, it begins to outstay its welcome before the ending comes. There's too much of it, and the loudness becomes one-note. With a bit of script pruning here and there, I think it would have been a lot more effective. A shorter play for your bucks, maybe, but more satisfying.
I still love Gwen though!
Agreed, but it could have been sooo much worse (looking at Exile for example...). Yes, they could have taken out maybe 5-8 minutes, and may have tightened up the story a bit. After all, we got the point. But I would not have taken out more than that.
As for the level of grimness... I should not have been too surprised. It is Torchwood after all, and they DO have a warning at the very beginning.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2019 19:37:10 GMT
There's something about the image of Eve Myles on the cover of a Torchwood audio. All black hair and black leather jacket. It just looks 'right' somehow. Yes, Smashed boasts another excellent cover.
The story - well, you know when you have that one friend who is blind drunk, and they think they are hilarious, but everybody else thinks they're acting like an idiot? Smashed could have been like that. But it isn't. Drunk Gwen is hilarious. Eve and Omar Austin as Martyn have some great scenes together, producing some genuine laugh-out-loud moments - before things get very grim, as tuigirl mentions above.
However, whilst the loudmouthed, profanity-filled story is excellent, it begins to outstay its welcome before the ending comes. There's too much of it, and the loudness becomes one-note. With a bit of script pruning here and there, I think it would have been a lot more effective. A shorter play for your bucks, maybe, but more satisfying.
I still love Gwen though!
Agreed, but it could have been sooo much worse (looking at Exile for example...). Yes, they could have taken out maybe 5-8 minutes, and may have tightened up the story a bit. After all, we got the point. But I would not have taken out more than that.
As for the level of grimness... I should not have been too surprised. It is Torchwood after all, and they DO have a warning at the very beginning.
came to my mind too, whilst I was listening to this. Yes, things could have been much worse! I think that perhaps with a story like this, with characters behaving in such a way, less is sometimes more. Having said that, any shortening of the script would have robbed us of some of Gwen's antics which were admittedly very funny! |
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Post by drj on Nov 13, 2019 22:54:40 GMT
Very atmospheric, I have to say! Quite claustrophobic as everything kept closing in. Another win for the monthly Torchwood range in my books!
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Mar 10, 2020 21:51:59 GMT
My Big Finish catch-up continues with Gwen Cooper and Torchwood. James Goss remains Big Finish's most consistent writer. Loved the build-up of the stakes. Loved the strains of Ennio Morricone invading the music at the end.
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Post by antartiks on Mar 10, 2020 22:35:39 GMT
This one was just too long for me, probably the most "disappointing" of this series even though it was entertaining for the most part.
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Post by nottenst on Apr 10, 2020 17:57:34 GMT
I spent the whole time thinking how the hell does she get out of this? I felt like James Goss backed himself into a corner with a story so exciting and Gwen's predicament being so unsolvable. How do you cure an unknown pathogen from your system that takes you over so quickly? There was no good way out of this one that ended with Gwen being alive and ok, so the ending was weak. But while it was going on? Excellent. Just finished it. Maybe I was a bit distracted, but I am not entirely sure how she got out of it. I'd really like to see the script to figure out more of what was going on. Edit: Listened to the last track again and did understand how she "won", but it is really hard to understand her postscript talking to someone in the town. It sounded like two different strains magically wiped each other out. |
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Post by Ela on Nov 3, 2022 3:16:12 GMT
Just listened to this tonight. Interesting premise, but I found it a little hard to follow. And I'm not a fan in general of listening to track after track of drunkenness. So not one of my favorites.
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