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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2020 5:09:16 GMT
It didn’t have a thread so thought I better activate one for the Anniversary Listen Through....and so Kestrel can have a backlog of stuff he needs to do🤪
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2020 15:20:53 GMT
A first Doctor tale that I found very slow,there was a lot of room and a great planet/set up to explore as usual Purves read it well and did the Doctor as well as he usually does but I will give a second listen to it as grateful it is a SHORT trip...
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Post by barnabaslives on Oct 6, 2020 0:33:18 GMT
Better a Short Trip that seems slow than one that seems like it's over before you know it, I think. I didn't think it seemed slow but it did manage to seem like it was considerably longer than its actual run time.
I much enjoyed revisiting this. Atmospheric (I hope it's not a bad pun to say that about a story called Etheria, lol) and unsettling.
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Post by constonks on Oct 6, 2020 22:34:53 GMT
First listen for me despite the fact that I had subscribed to the Short Trips in 2015! I kept putting it off and was finally going to listen to it as part of a First Doctor chronological marathon (which I'm only starting now - haven't even reached AUC yet!). But! What better reason to move it up than the FIVE (!) year anniversary of its release. And as it stands, I'll probably still listen to it when I hit that Steven-Vicki period, as I thought it was good stuff! I think this is a story that works well with its runtime - I would be happy to see the Etheria gas make a return in a longer, more psychedelic story, but this tale is made to be a one-parter. As barnabaslives said, it does feel longer than its run time. |
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Post by elkawho on Oct 11, 2020 13:37:40 GMT
I listened to this twice this week. It's a good story, yet seems light. I have said before that I adore Peter Purves. This was a Stephen story, but it was a Vicky story. It was a Short Trip, but seems longer. I had completely forgotten it before this week, so it was great listening to it again. A story that feels as touched by it's subject matter as the characters in it.
Next week: Terror of the Sontarans!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2020 13:49:26 GMT
Am about to give it a relisten too as first listen I found it a bit slow and thought more could have been done with the setting but I cannot fault Peters delivery he is always a joy to listen to....I always remember my surprise when I watched Blue Peter as a kid on which he was a presenter and then I found a picture of him as the Doctors companion and then he got elevated status among the presenters 😎
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Post by sherlock on Oct 11, 2020 14:04:49 GMT
A pretty good Short Trip all in all. It uses its runtime to good effect and has some nice descriptions.
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Post by pazzer on Oct 16, 2020 4:02:58 GMT
Am not that familiar with this Tardis team. So wasn't all that sure what to expect. There's quite a bit going on and it does a really good job of describing everything. Enjoyed listening to it. Though find myself in the strange position of thinking it's an easily forgetable story but is worth a relisten.
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Post by number13 on Oct 18, 2020 13:57:52 GMT
Finally in this listen-thru, a release I had already heard and could revisit. Peter Purves has become one of my favourite Companion actors from all eras; he's always excellent to listen to, whether in the full-cast EAs, the CCs or narrating an audiobook or a short trip like this one - even when his own character of Steven doesn't (apparently) appear much.
I enjoyed the story again and I had forgotten the twist and the ending since I heard it before, so it came out partly like new. (Put it down to the Ether or the fact that I was doing a major catch-up of Short Trips two years ago and heard a lot over a short timespan.)
I liked the atmospheric descriptions and the 'journey' nature of the story, a style very much of the First Doctor's era when adventures were allowed to elapse over days, weeks like 'The Romans' or even months like 'Marco Polo', in contrast with the continual near 'real-time' flow of most later stories. The virtual landscape and the 'tumbleweeds' being products of Steven's memories of Mechanus was a nice idea (which I missed both times of listening until Vicki pointed it out later) and I liked the way the Doctor finally defeats their captors entirely with his mind; by studying their situation, deducing the truth - and then turning the Ether-linked machine against the pirates.
Notice how he carefully gets Vicki and Steven into the Ship before he acts, by asking Steven to protect Vicki which means Steven doesn't notice or protest (which he surely would have done) about the fact the Doctor is protecting him too; smoothly done Doctor! And then he unleashes on their former captors his memories, memories of so many alien horrors all made 'real' by the machine... you do not mess with the First Doctor.
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