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Post by Star Platinum on Jun 6, 2022 21:36:49 GMT
Chapter Three
I wasn’t overly fond of this one. I find the inquiry scenes very evocative of Trial of a Timelord, which isn’t exactly a point in its favour.
We get a fair bit of development for Braxiatel in this story, an origin for the Braxiatel Collection as well. Though, why he would be in charge of the inquiry, when he was involved in the events surrounding it’s inception is beyond me.
Leela’s storyline continues full steam ahead.
It’s not a favourite of mine, the mechanics around the Timeonic fusion device is a bit messy and hard to follow. Though I do like how it ties into Underworld.
Not bad, but not overly good in my opinion.
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Post by Digi on Jun 18, 2022 22:38:21 GMT
Still playing catch-up, have this one on right now. Unlike you SP, I actually rather like this one. I enjoy how the story plays out like gradually peeling away layers, revealing more and more and the story continues. If I have one gripe about this one, it's that there's no real distinguishing audio cue to denote when it's one of the flashback sequences to the original timeonic fusion device experiment. I'm not totally sure what form that would take on audio -- on TV it would be as easy as doing them in B&W or maybe a washed-out colour palette -- but surely there's some way it could have been done.
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Post by Kestrel on Jun 30, 2022 4:25:19 GMT
I wasn’t overly fond of this one. I find the inquiry scenes very evocative of Trial of a Timelord, which isn’t exactly a point in its favour. I mostly only ever see people praising Trial of a Time Lord, but I agree. Courtroom dramas can be very well done... but man, Trial of a Time Lord was a hot mess in almost every respect. At least The Inquiry was fairly self-contained, and not used as a grafted-on framing device for a bunch of unrelated stories. Anyway. I don't really have a lot to say about this one. I do like trial stories, but I can't say this one does a great job of that. There's simply too much faffing about outside of the courtroom, as the various characters attempt to outmaneuver each other. At this point in time, we simply don't know enough about these people, their beliefs, or their goals to really sympathize with any of them: Romana has power, everyone else wants power, and this inquiry is an opportunity to for her to lose and them to gain. There's not really anything more to it. That said, I do kind of love how this story introduces us to the Braxiatel Collection. It goes a long way to making Brax a sympathetic character -- beyond his pompous affectations, we get to learn just what he cares about, and what he's willing to do to protect it, as well as what he's willing to risk. Characterization that will pay dividends in future stories as various things catch up with him, even if his own gnarled continuity is too much of a Gordian Knot for us to ever fully know just how his story turns out. Random note: I wonder if the order of stories in series 1 was ever adjusted? It's interesting to me that Weapon of Choice ends leading into Inquiry, but in-between the two we have Square One. Just one more thing that makes Square One feel like disposable filler, I suppose. Also the whole resolution with the Timonic Fusion Device felt a bit too anticlimactic. Partly that it came in the penultimate story, and partly that it just... vanished. Erasing the device from reality (and somehow replacing it with an empty suitcase) felt a bit like a cop-out. Though I will say that its paradoxical backstory was a neat twist, and it's always fun to see the Time Lords get bitten in the ass by their own hubris.
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