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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Nov 5, 2019 10:28:22 GMT
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Post by dangerwillrobinson on Nov 5, 2019 11:15:04 GMT
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Post by mark687 on Nov 5, 2019 12:05:35 GMT
Good little story with a couple of tried and true DW plot technics thrown in.
Regards
mark687
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Nov 5, 2019 12:08:09 GMT
The Big Finish newsletter email is out heavily advertising this story.
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Post by sherlock on Nov 6, 2019 0:11:04 GMT
Another alright Short Trip. Nothing really groundbreaking, but a fine story told well.
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Post by tuigirl on Nov 6, 2019 8:15:51 GMT
I agree, nice little story.
India is doing a great job (would you expect anything else?).
Interesting choice to tell a story about "cold war"/ "arms race" topics.
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Post by tuigirl on Nov 6, 2019 8:19:04 GMT
Another thought-
wouldn't it be nice if the Doctor informed himself a bit more about people and things he admires before naively blundering in?
For someone so old he can be amazingly naive.
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Post by Max Kashevsky on Nov 6, 2019 11:40:35 GMT
The psychological horror of this, and the way it comments on soldiers being objectified in abstract moral debates over war, is astounding. I didn't 100% catch why we have the Doctor and Charley traveling back in time, or how that works with the ending. But this was a fabulous first outing for Jaine Fenn.
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Post by Digi on Nov 6, 2019 13:56:54 GMT
I enjoyed this, I think more for the characterization than anything else. The story was interesting (even if it didn't fully grab me), but I think Jaine Fenn absolutely nailed the voices of both Charley and the Doctor. It would be easy for a newcomer to miss that, so for her to have done so so masterfully is very impressive.
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Post by elkawho on Nov 7, 2019 18:52:40 GMT
I loved this one as well. The focus on how the extreme from ANY point of view, even the anti-war one, can lead to horrific acts. I thought it was a powerful story.
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Post by Ian McArdell on Nov 8, 2019 12:07:09 GMT
My take is up at Cultbox: "Beneath the well-observed banter, it considers deeper themes; the futility of war and the notion of art born from despair. It heads to a wonderfully bleak ending too." |
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Post by IndieMacUser on Nov 9, 2019 10:04:30 GMT
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Post by Kestrel on Nov 21, 2020 20:10:09 GMT
This was a fun one, huh? I really like India Fisher's impression--mimicry?--of Paul McGann's delivery. I guess she's become very familiar with his voice, as she replicates it nearly perfectly. Or maybe McGann's voice is just that iconic? We've already seen that : {Spoiler}Derek Jacobi can pull it off flawlessly, too, just this year. I also really love how Doctor Who has codified this idea that the Doctor is this master manipulator who crafts scenarios that allow or enable other people to do his killing for him, out of the narrative necessity w/ children's fiction of never allowing heroes to have blood in their hands. Not sure it fits for the 8th Doctor, who has in the last declared that this persona was a deliberate choice in rejection of the 7th Doctor's more manipulative nature. |
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Post by grinch on Mar 2, 2021 16:29:13 GMT
An interesting little story with a good and engaging commentary on the nature and impact of warfare.
Evidently you can tell this is not long after he has regenerated because he retains some of the Seventh’s more manipulative tendencies.
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