Post by Kestrel on Jan 2, 2021 18:50:45 GMT
Time to help fill out the Index! I've listened to so much Doctor Who lately, I'm limiting myself to those stories still remember clearly, so hopefully I won't wind up flooding the board with too many threads.... Which brings us to the twin-release of I.D. and Urgent Calls.
For being the longer of the two stories, I don't really remember much about I.D. at all. So much so that when I think of Urgent Calls, in my mind I remember it not as an MR release, but a Short Trip. The latter story is just so immense in my mind that it blots out the former entirely. And can you blame me? Urgent Calls is good. Really, really good.
In fact, I'd say it's one of my all-time favorite Doctor Who stories. Ever.
It's just so fun: a laser-focused story with an experimental format (does this qualify as an epistolary, do you think?), consisting entirely of the inimitable Colin Baker opposite just a single other character. That's it. That's the story: just two people talking. I love it so much. There's an alien threat, of course, there always is, but it's off-screen, so to speak, throughout: serving less as a threat than a contrivance to justify the coincidences that propel the dialog. The meat of the story is simply the emerging dynamic and increasing surreality of the Doctor's developing relationship with Lauren Hudson. Wouldn't she have made a great companion?
Oh, god. Am I gushing too much? I just love this episode. All the moreso that the big "threat" posed by the alien programming mostly just manifests in happy little coincidences, that benefit everyone involved. It's just lovely. One of the best.
What did you all think?
For being the longer of the two stories, I don't really remember much about I.D. at all. So much so that when I think of Urgent Calls, in my mind I remember it not as an MR release, but a Short Trip. The latter story is just so immense in my mind that it blots out the former entirely. And can you blame me? Urgent Calls is good. Really, really good.
In fact, I'd say it's one of my all-time favorite Doctor Who stories. Ever.
It's just so fun: a laser-focused story with an experimental format (does this qualify as an epistolary, do you think?), consisting entirely of the inimitable Colin Baker opposite just a single other character. That's it. That's the story: just two people talking. I love it so much. There's an alien threat, of course, there always is, but it's off-screen, so to speak, throughout: serving less as a threat than a contrivance to justify the coincidences that propel the dialog. The meat of the story is simply the emerging dynamic and increasing surreality of the Doctor's developing relationship with Lauren Hudson. Wouldn't she have made a great companion?
Oh, god. Am I gushing too much? I just love this episode. All the moreso that the big "threat" posed by the alien programming mostly just manifests in happy little coincidences, that benefit everyone involved. It's just lovely. One of the best.
What did you all think?
