Post by Kestrel on Aug 2, 2021 16:18:14 GMT
I think this one might be my favorite Short Trip out of Volume 3. I loved the crinkly radio narration in the beginning--very evocative of those 1930s radio plays--and the ominous music was a delightful touch. The Millipede transformation thing was also wonderfully horrific, and very evocative of Franz Kafka, whose works would have been more-or-less contemporary to this period, so it felt very appropriate. All-in-all this created a very clear prewar aesthetic that I really appreciated. Nevermind the clackity-clack of the typewriter!
"You ignorant fool! Millipedes... aren't... insects...!"
LMFAO. What a fantastic line.
And not to harp on another story in a (mostly) unrelated thread, but I just can't help but think that this would've made a much better framing device than Seven-to-One. We've got Betty here, at her typewriter, writing up science fiction in 1950s suburbia... how cool would it have been if the stories she was writing either were the Doctors' tales in this volume, or based on them? IE that what she wrote either caused those adventures, or she somehow witnessed them, or by some cosmic coincidence the stories she imagined matched up with the things the Doctors experienced? I dunno. Seems like it would've been more fun.
Also, this is possibly a(nother) premise that might've worked better outside of this range, with a longer run-time to really flesh things out. The 1950s SF scene is a really fun topic, I think, and one of interest to (I imagine) most of Doctor Who's audience. Women writing SF in this period are also woefully underrepresented, and it could've been a nice opportunity to shine some spotlights, ya' know?
"You ignorant fool! Millipedes... aren't... insects...!"
LMFAO. What a fantastic line.
And not to harp on another story in a (mostly) unrelated thread, but I just can't help but think that this would've made a much better framing device than Seven-to-One. We've got Betty here, at her typewriter, writing up science fiction in 1950s suburbia... how cool would it have been if the stories she was writing either were the Doctors' tales in this volume, or based on them? IE that what she wrote either caused those adventures, or she somehow witnessed them, or by some cosmic coincidence the stories she imagined matched up with the things the Doctors experienced? I dunno. Seems like it would've been more fun.
Also, this is possibly a(nother) premise that might've worked better outside of this range, with a longer run-time to really flesh things out. The 1950s SF scene is a really fun topic, I think, and one of interest to (I imagine) most of Doctor Who's audience. Women writing SF in this period are also woefully underrepresented, and it could've been a nice opportunity to shine some spotlights, ya' know?