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Post by Kestrel on Mar 27, 2021 19:32:31 GMT
My thoughts: - I'm so very, verly glad they don't use this theme music for every episode, but even using it sparingly is too frequent: the lyrics are just so, so bad.
- Love how genre-savvy Benny is: she just assumes, as a matter of course, that whenever she's hired for a job, it's either going to be a trap or will somehow quickly degenerate into some kind of potentially-fatal crisis.
- All of this baby stuff is weird. From what I can gather, it's all rape-as-backstory that is, presumably, rooted in the novels? Benny comes with a lot of baggage, which I'd hoped to somehow avoid by going back to her earliest audio adventures, but that really has not been the case. I can definitely see why they wanted to reboot Benny with the NABS range, though now I wonder at the fact that it took Big Finish so long to do so.
- Boris is a bit too cliched for my tastes. It appears he's simply there to be cheap comic relief—cognitive impairment just isn't something I find inherently humorous.
- The plot here is a bit wonky. I deeply question the believability of convincing an entire planetary population that this set of ancient prophecies is both real and somehow relevant in the present. Why would anyone care?
- Ultimately it's a decent adventure story, propped up mostly by an as-always stellar performance from Lisa Bowerman, but is otherwise fairly unremarkable.
- I suspect I've kinda shot myself in the foot by listening to so many fantastic Benny stories before going back to this earlier stuff....
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Post by grinch on Mar 27, 2021 20:27:18 GMT
My thoughts: - I'm so very, verly glad they don't use this theme music for every episode, but even using it sparingly is too frequent: the lyrics are just so, so bad.
- Love how genre-savvy Benny is: she just assumes, as a matter of course, that whenever she's hired for a job, it's either going to be a trap or will somehow quickly degenerate into some kind of potentially-fatal crisis.
- All of this baby stuff is weird. From what I can gather, it's all rape-as-backstory that is, presumably, rooted in the novels? Benny comes with a lot of baggage, which I'd hoped to somehow avoid by going back to her earliest audio adventures, but that really has not been the case. I can definitely see why they wanted to reboot Benny with the NABS range, though now I wonder at the fact that it took Big Finish so long to do so.
- Boris is a bit too cliched for my tastes. It appears he's simply there to be cheap comic relief—cognitive impairment just isn't something I find inherently humorous.
- The plot here is a bit wonky. I deeply question the believability of convincing an entire planetary population that this set of ancient prophecies is both real and somehow relevant in the present. Why would anyone care?
- Ultimately it's a decent adventure story, propped up mostly by an as-always stellar performance from Lisa Bowerman, but is otherwise fairly unremarkable.
- I suspect I've kinda shot myself in the foot by listening to so many fantastic Benny stories before going back to this earlier stuff....
The conception of Bennie’s baby I believe was actually detailed in one of the novels that only recently got the audiobook treatment. Not sure why it took that long to get around to it (possibly rights issues?) but there we go. Proper weird. |
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