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Post by Digi on May 1, 2021 16:43:55 GMT
Just wrapping this one up now. Baffled at some of the responses here, I loved it. And considering Five is a long way from my favourite Doctor, and Turlough is a long way from being my favourite companion, that makes it all the more impressive.
Realizing now that playing catchup lately, this makes 12 hours of Doctor Who material I've listened to in the last week. That's more DW than has been on TV in the last two years, and there's still a lot of stuff I have downloaded but haven't listened to yet lol
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Jun 7, 2021 2:16:27 GMT
Catching up. Random observations, we never got enough 5/Turlough stories. It is a pairing that works really well and if the story has a glaring weakness to me it is the time the story spends keeping the two apart. Writing that I understand James Kettle wanted to play on 5’s emotions concerning the loss of the last young person who traveled with him. I just think it hurt the story. Also Turlough coming up with the frozen time solution didn’t strike me as being credible. It is the kind of thing that the Doctor comes up with early on. Then the rest of the story becomes him trying to achieve that goal. I also don’t completely buy the Doctor accepting the news of Turlough’s death so easily. All that brings me to my main issue; the story is a solid two-parter stretched out to four parts. I know that unchecked capitalism is dangerous. I know when a culture pushes profits over people it degrades society. I just didn’t need to have it thrown in my face so often. A shorter story that really zeroes in on a Chernobyl style disaster scenario driving the action would have been much more effective. At least to me. That said, there is still a lot to enjoy. Davison & Strickson make a good duo and both are in fine form even if they recorded separately. Playing up Turlough’s self-doubt is rich dramatic material that I wish had been exploited more throughly . It sounds great. Anyway, not horrible but not all that good either.
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Post by Ela on Oct 26, 2021 3:44:09 GMT
Just wrapping this one up now. Baffled at some of the responses here, I loved it. And considering Five is a long way from my favourite Doctor, and Turlough is a long way from being my favourite companion, that makes it all the more impressive. Realizing now that playing catchup lately, this makes 12 hours of Doctor Who material I've listened to in the last week. That's more DW than has been on TV in the last two years, and there's still a lot of stuff I have downloaded but haven't listened to yet lol I enjoyed it, too, for the most part.
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Post by tuigirl on Feb 15, 2023 22:47:35 GMT
Interesting reading all the different reactions!
Well, I had this release as part of my monthly range subscription, but after I read some reviews, it disappeared into my backlog. I now finally made myself listen to this.
Well. It certainly was not as bad as I feared. But,sadly, it still only gets an average rating from me- the evil capitalist card was played much too strongly and was grating on me after a while. Yes, I understand it was meant to be satirical, but after a while, it felt more like sledgehammer satire, without any nuance or subtlety.
I do however admit I have not seen Chernobyl (and not sure I will be able to, mentally) so I do not know the source material- I only know the historical story.
I did like Turlough in this, though. The Doctor was much too much desperately trying to fight against windmills (reminded me a lot of Snakedance, so this fits the era), but with Turlough we get quite a bit of insight into his character.
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Post by bonehead on Feb 15, 2023 22:53:30 GMT
Interesting reading all the different reactions! Well, I had this release as part of my monthly range subscription, but after I read some reviews, it disappeared into my backlog. I now finally made myself listen to this. Well. It certainly was not as bad as I feared. But,sadly, it still only gets an average rating from me- the evil capitalist card was played much too strongly and was grating on me after a while. Yes, I understand it was meant to be satirical, but after a while, it felt more like sledgehammer satire, without any nuance or subtlety. I do however admit I have not seen Chernobyl (and not sure I will be able to, mentally) so I do not know the source material- I only know the historical story. I did like Turlough in this, though. The Doctor was much too much desperately trying to fight against windmills (reminded me a lot of Snakedance, so this fits the era), but with Turlough we get quite a bit of insight into his character. Good to read this. I always felt this story was unfairly maligned - it's not the best thing ever, but I enjoyed it. Also, as you say, it's nice that Turlough got his own side-story in this.
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Post by Kestrel on Feb 16, 2023 13:20:30 GMT
I did like Turlough in this, though. The Doctor was much too much desperately trying to fight against windmills (reminded me a lot of Snakedance, so this fits the era), but with Turlough we get quite a bit of insight into his character. "Turlough was fun" is pretty much the only thing I remember from it....
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