Short Trips 2.08: Letting Go (spoilers)
Feb 3, 2021 8:48:44 GMT
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Post by Kestrel on Feb 3, 2021 8:48:44 GMT
Okay, so in what has rapidly become a running theme with me... I am once again confused by the continuity here.
This story opens with Charlie commenting that she fell in love with the Doctor--which wow, that's a hell of a revelation to drop on us in the middle of a short trip. I never really got that impression from her in the Monthly Range, but okay. But then she also specifies that it was her first Doctor, which would set her POV as she narrates this story after her adventures with the 6th Doctor.
And, potentially, after her (final?) adventure in MR275, depending on whether or not the 8th Doctor in that story is pulled in from before or after The Company of Friends.
Anyway, I really enjoyed this story. It's essentially a kind of extended epilogue that could easily be appended onto the end of pretty much any Doctor Who story. It's pretty far from a new observation that the Doctor tends to blow in and blow up amid chaos and death, and no matter how many lives he saves, by disappearing at the end there will always be families and friends of the victims who will spend the rest of their lives wondering what happened to their loved ones, never getting closure. It's nice to see the Doctor taking the time to speak with the family of one of those people who lost their live to help him save all the other lives, even if it was only just the once.
I do think, though, it might've been better in an MR release--so we could get to know the character who died. But I suppose, ultimately, who they were doesn't matter: there are so many people just like them in this franchise.
Well, that does it for Short Trips Volume 2. So far I'd say the quality of these early short trips has been pretty mixed--some are excellent, some less so. But almost all of them have been worth listening to, I think. Anyone else rummaging through these older stories? If you've listened to Letting Go recently, or remember it well enough to comment, please jump in an let us know what ya' thought of it.
This story opens with Charlie commenting that she fell in love with the Doctor--which wow, that's a hell of a revelation to drop on us in the middle of a short trip. I never really got that impression from her in the Monthly Range, but okay. But then she also specifies that it was her first Doctor, which would set her POV as she narrates this story after her adventures with the 6th Doctor.
And, potentially, after her (final?) adventure in MR275, depending on whether or not the 8th Doctor in that story is pulled in from before or after The Company of Friends.
Anyway, I really enjoyed this story. It's essentially a kind of extended epilogue that could easily be appended onto the end of pretty much any Doctor Who story. It's pretty far from a new observation that the Doctor tends to blow in and blow up amid chaos and death, and no matter how many lives he saves, by disappearing at the end there will always be families and friends of the victims who will spend the rest of their lives wondering what happened to their loved ones, never getting closure. It's nice to see the Doctor taking the time to speak with the family of one of those people who lost their live to help him save all the other lives, even if it was only just the once.
I do think, though, it might've been better in an MR release--so we could get to know the character who died. But I suppose, ultimately, who they were doesn't matter: there are so many people just like them in this franchise.
Well, that does it for Short Trips Volume 2. So far I'd say the quality of these early short trips has been pretty mixed--some are excellent, some less so. But almost all of them have been worth listening to, I think. Anyone else rummaging through these older stories? If you've listened to Letting Go recently, or remember it well enough to comment, please jump in an let us know what ya' thought of it.
