Post by Kestrel on Jan 27, 2021 0:32:55 GMT
Continuing on my journey through the first four volumes of Short Trips, it's time for 1963!
This was certainly an interesting premise, but I think it suffers from the (encouraged) comparison to the very first Short Trip, 1.1, also featuring the 1st Doctor. In both cases we have the TARDIS de materialize on a planet out-of-sync with the local timeframe. In 1.1, the TARDIS was stuck in a much slower relative timeframe; in 2.1, a much faster relative timeframe.
Its an interesting SF premise that raises a lot of fun questions that the story doesn't really do anything with. Can they interact with the slow-no world physically? What happens if they can't escape? The coda reveals a random person was shot and killed during that infinitely prolonged moment: couldn't the TARDIS crew have engineered some mechanism to avert that bullet and save that unnamed man's life?
instead we get this weird half-baked story with Barbara's aunt, that just doesn't really go anywhere. We don't really learn anything about either character, save that Barbara arranged to meet her aunt, stood her up, and doesn't really care about it.
And also she kinda implies that her aunt is a woman, I think?
And again I find myself a bit at a loss when the gender of the narrator does not sync with the gender of the voice actor. It's just a distracting incongruity. I much prefer the first-person Short Trips that are "read" by a specific character in the story--like they're simply relating something that happened to them the other day. The two Jackie Tyler short trips are a fantastic example of this.
Well... those are my thoughts. How about y'all? Have you listened to 1963 recently? And if so, what did you think of it?
This was certainly an interesting premise, but I think it suffers from the (encouraged) comparison to the very first Short Trip, 1.1, also featuring the 1st Doctor. In both cases we have the TARDIS de materialize on a planet out-of-sync with the local timeframe. In 1.1, the TARDIS was stuck in a much slower relative timeframe; in 2.1, a much faster relative timeframe.
Its an interesting SF premise that raises a lot of fun questions that the story doesn't really do anything with. Can they interact with the slow-no world physically? What happens if they can't escape? The coda reveals a random person was shot and killed during that infinitely prolonged moment: couldn't the TARDIS crew have engineered some mechanism to avert that bullet and save that unnamed man's life?
instead we get this weird half-baked story with Barbara's aunt, that just doesn't really go anywhere. We don't really learn anything about either character, save that Barbara arranged to meet her aunt, stood her up, and doesn't really care about it.
And also she kinda implies that her aunt is a woman, I think?
And again I find myself a bit at a loss when the gender of the narrator does not sync with the gender of the voice actor. It's just a distracting incongruity. I much prefer the first-person Short Trips that are "read" by a specific character in the story--like they're simply relating something that happened to them the other day. The two Jackie Tyler short trips are a fantastic example of this.
Well... those are my thoughts. How about y'all? Have you listened to 1963 recently? And if so, what did you think of it?
