The Death and Life of River Series 1 Last Words Spoilers

Yes that one was so good. But no BF just want to plunder the past. I guess that is what fans want?

My hopes for this were that it would be a lot weirder, having the opportunity to explore a non-corporeal world. There’s opportunity for a strange, trippy series there.

That said, Valentine’s words talking about writing the last River Song story make me wonder whether this was intended to be a Diary boxset, but then got repurposed as the start of a new series. Doing a whole box set in this era might have inspired them to shift to this idea going forwards. Otherwise it does seem bonkers setting up a whole new scenario and focusing on her digital afterlife only to give her a body and send her to Earth. That could easily have been written around to do a normal River story.

I think the setting is actually ripe for powerful storytelling, having the majority of the population of Earth knowing they’ve been left to die. What are the chances River will take them all back to the library computer at the end?

Sounds average & unimaginative.

I was already on the fence about this one *before* the events of this past week.

Hrm....

I do intend to make one last purchase this month, before pulling back and waiting things out for a bit, but hrm... I'd kind of hoped to benefit from the opinions of other folks willing to dive into this own on release day, but I suspect not many people are gonna bother. Anyone here still planning to pick this one up day 1?

I'm not convinced anything will be released until at least the middle of the month. Noticed that my next pre-paid releases both have release dates of last day of their respective months when I call them up online.
Wouldn't know about the app. Their developers have deemed my device far too old for their software, when the previous version worked splendidly.
Ageism.

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So 2 releases today?

One episode in and so far I'm really liking the pacing of this. It definitely feels like it's taking inspiration from Friend of the Family, which is exactly what I was hoping for. Very strong first episode!

Absolutely loved it. Exactly what I’d want from a typical River release; location hopping, a mystery to unravel, a new world to explore and some great guest characters. I’m not sure I agree that it’s inspired by Friend of the Family. I think it’s only alike in that it’s very much one story. I’d argue it has more in common with the earlier sets of the range in the way it’s presented, wider in scope and dotting about the place. This one does have more of a through line with its objectives and recurring guest cast, though.

The Ark in Space connections were very well done too, I thought. Less a prequel and more using connective tissue to add more layers to the apocalyptic Earth setting.

I’m not sure that the post-Library setting was essential to the story being told, to be honest. It sort of keeps covering the same references without actually doing anything with it and we were back to business as usual with River from the get go. It does come into play more in the final few scenes, but the solution could’ve just as easily been anything else. Not a major criticism, but also not the big deal it was made out to be in the sets coverage. Whether we pick back up on it and it forges the series ahead remains to be seen.

Details of the next set please!

Hm... sounds like I shouldn't skip this one, then.