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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2021 14:44:24 GMT
Decided to create a thread for this as there is a lot more information about it being shared.
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Post by mark687 on Dec 15, 2021 14:49:39 GMT
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Post by Star Platinum on Jan 12, 2022 9:17:48 GMT
Watchers is available now.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jan 12, 2022 9:34:40 GMT
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Post by bonehead on Jan 12, 2022 10:50:53 GMT
A have a few days free now, and cannot wait to get stuck into this!
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Post by newt5996 on Jan 12, 2022 15:11:52 GMT
Been listening to this for the last day or so (I got a reviewers copy). It’s been an interesting mix of Season 17 and 18 and I really enjoy Waterhouse’s style which is a bit surprising honestly. There’s a bit of meandering in the middle and the Daleks seem a touch superfluous but it’s been a lot of fun.
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Post by BHTvsTFC on Jan 12, 2022 19:47:55 GMT
Half way through already. We can talk forever about great writing, great stories but the ones that are always the most appealing are the ones that are set in your personal era with your favourite characters!
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Post by IndieMacUser on Jan 13, 2022 12:44:49 GMT
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Post by shallacatop on Feb 3, 2022 14:17:28 GMT
It took me a while to get through this. I would've adored this as a book, but I struggled at times with it as an audiobook. I think it might be the format more than anything; hour long parts rather than smaller chapters. It's a weird and wonderful story, with some lovely lyrical prose from Waterhouse, that it's often hard to really grasp what's going on and at which point in the story we're up to. I also think I'd have read quicker than the speed it's being read to me at.
Still, I appreciate it's an issue with me rather than the actual production, and I had a lot of fun listening. I just know it would've really shined reading it as a book, given the nature of the story and Waterhouse's style of writing.
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Post by bonehead on Feb 4, 2022 14:48:56 GMT
Mild spoilers follow ...
I got lost a handful of times here, but that’s what re-listens are for; the density of detail is also true to Series 18 from where Watchers is plucked. It’s all very well written and Matthew’s many different voices and characters are excellent. Nice to hear the Trods get a fleeting mention (in fact there’s a sprinkling of nice references throughout)!
This isn’t a Dalek story, but the Daleks are in it, and interesting things are done with them, especially one particular new addition, who I keep thinking of as the Special Weapon Dalek’s dad. Does their appearance benefit the story? Yes, I’d say so, and vice versa. As is the way of things, the metal blighters gain a foothold on events, providing a very powerful cliff-hanger for episode 5.
If I have any kind of criticism, it is that this doesn’t know when to end. Several times, the story appears to be over, only for a further scene to begin. When the final scene eventually comes, it begins to set up events for Logopolis and is, admittedly, excellent.
On the whole, I really enjoyed the epic scale of this, the eccentric locations, the journeys into tangents and the extravagant characters. Would I buy another Doctor Who audiobook penned and read by Matthew Waterhouse? In a heartbeat.
Edit - forgot to add: Adric is perfectly in character here, but far more sympathetically written – and played, it must be said – than he was on television (understandable, given the writer!). He’s awkward, a bit difficult, a bit of what we might call ‘a nerd’, but he’s an interesting character, especially when reflecting on his relationship with The Doctor. The Doctor is often pretty distant here, perhaps mirroring Tom Baker’s more subdued performance in his final series.
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Post by coffeeaddict on Feb 7, 2022 14:03:14 GMT
This might have been okay as a book, but listening to it bored me. Personally I think a different reader would have made a difference.
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You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Feb 7, 2022 16:10:37 GMT
This might have been okay as a book, but listening to it bored me. Personally I think a different reader would have made a difference. I an 2/3rds through and am counting the minutes until it is over. It is not a bad story or characters snd it is well-performed, but it is very very slow to the pont of dullness. It would work much better as 4 or 5 hours rather than 7. The prkblem with the dulness is the listener switches off, my mind wanders elsewhere, and when I tune back in I have lost the thread of what is going on. It is much easier to flick back a couple of pages in a physical book to find out what you missed than it is to swipe back on the BF app. You end up swiping back 10 minutes instead of 2 and the whole audiobook experience becomes frustrating. So I agree wholeheartedly with those above who said it would be better as a physical book. It's a shame because there is a good story in there, what it really needed was a good editor who would have made Waterhouse cut the length by a quarter or a third. |
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Post by coffeeaddict on Feb 7, 2022 20:17:35 GMT
This might have been okay as a book, but listening to it bored me. Personally I think a different reader would have made a difference. I an 2/3rds through and am counting the minutes until it is over. It is not a bad story or characters snd it is well-performed, but it is very very slow to the pont of dullness. It would work much better as 4 or 5 hours rather than 7. The prkblem with the dulness is the listener switches off, my mind wanders elsewhere, and when I tune back in I have lost the thread of what is going on. It is much easier to flick back a couple of pages in a physical book to find out what you missed than it is to swipe back on the BF app. You end up swiping back 10 minutes instead of 2 and the whole audiobook experience becomes frustrating. So I agree wholeheartedly with those above who said it would be better as a physical book. It's a shame because there is a good story in there, what it really needed was a good editor who would have made Waterhouse cut the length by a quarter or a third. It made me nostalgic for some of the painfully boring tax policy briefings I covered as a reporter. |
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