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Post by mark687 on May 24, 2024 11:15:37 GMT
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Post by kipperserver on May 24, 2024 11:44:33 GMT
That is brilliant! You have to watch/listen to it all!
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2024 11:52:26 GMT
Wow. And I mean - wow. That last word gave me a shiver right around the cerebral cortex.
Didn't expect that. I think we might be in for a treat here.
{Spoiler} ![](https://u.cubeupload.com/paz/Screenshot20240524at.png)
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Post by melkur on May 24, 2024 13:46:30 GMT
(Record scratch) I, uh, what now? Well, it looks like I'm definitely going to have to make sure I have enough space to download BF audios whilst I'm on holiday in America the end of June/first-half of July... ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/6343532/images/ZBDvOFPmQgNwxFXLpuoD.gif)
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Post by sherlock on May 28, 2024 10:14:24 GMT
Well that is certainly a surprise. Quite intrigued to how this one will go.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2024 11:09:41 GMT
That is an element that BF haven't overdone. Nice to see it used outside the person it normally is associated with.
The Word Lord, Sutekh, Land Of Fiction and - till recently - Morbius are other elements BF have been sparse in using.
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Post by mark687 on May 31, 2024 16:00:48 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 31, 2024 17:03:47 GMT
That's one stunning piece of work.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jun 27, 2024 10:39:23 GMT
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Jul 11, 2024 8:11:59 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2024 12:46:39 GMT
Whenever someone says “Don’t look behind you,” what’s the first thing we do? Look behind us. So, what could be more terrifying than a Doctor Who monster that exists entirely on that premise – “Don’t think of the Mara!” Our very acknowledgement of the creature, even in ‘the dark places of the inside’, helps usher it into physical being.
Peter Davison’s two Chris Bailey-penned stories had a huge effect on me as a kid. Overwhelmed with flu when Kinda was transmitted, my delirium made the snake-like being even more real and horrifying; unlike others, I thought the resultant emergence at the end of the tale was quite good (let’s have Peter Howell’s soundtrack released soon, shall we?)! Marc Platt, a genius if ever there was one, wrote Cradle of the Snake for BF, in which the serpent returned; sadly (for me), it focussed on the more playful side of the manifestation and not the outright horror.
Now it’s back, in Torchwood.
I was a bit wary of the accents at the beginning of this one. Not every performer can resist turning an upper-class accent into a comedy inflection: it gets perilously close here. ‘Big Finish: for the love of stories, ducky…’ doesn’t bode well (as always, delete the ident) at the start. The initial lightweight tone is as unpromising as it is OTT and the heart sinks.
Then there are the casual drunken whispers of misdemeanours at the vampiric Serpentine Club (Serpentine, you say?), of people coming back from there ‘changed.’ And the mood shifts. The tally-ho relationship between the all-male cast suddenly takes on a sinister turn, but it’s rather more serious than authoritarian figures abusing their power. When not playing Wooster-styled ‘silly arses’, the acting is terrific - Simon Kane’s character Forster reminds me a little of Craig Parkinson’s wonderfully creepy character in Flux.
The ending is effective; the concept of the Mara is not easily confined to one disc. I’d welcome a Mara boxset actually, and I wouldn’t be averse to Ash Derby writing it. After all, as this story shows ... there's more than one of these parasites.
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Post by Who Review on Jul 14, 2024 10:02:37 GMT
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Post by sherlock on Jul 15, 2024 22:10:42 GMT
What starts as an “Torchwood does Jeeves & Wooster” dovetails into an excellent take on the Mara. When it was recently described as “God of Beasts” I was a little bemused by what that meant (aside from it being a big snake) but this story actually clicked that into place for me. It’s trying to make everyone else into beasts without any level of filter, and then rule that as their god. Unleashing that idea into the already repressed world of 1920s works really well.
I liked how we actually get the Mara walking about and talking for quite a while, more so than TV really. We can see what impact its having and what it’s trying to achieve by sowing chaos. It gives Forster what he really wants deep down by evicting Jack, and then rubs his face in the consequences of that. It fights off aliens brutally for Torchwood, just to defend its own territory. It’s insidious and is sowing seeds of chaos, but is not planting a single master plan to wipe out everyone in a one big bang.
The ending is very neat and so very Torchwood. All in all; a very good story.
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Post by IndieMacUser on Jul 19, 2024 19:35:21 GMT
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Post by 20fridge on Jul 21, 2024 2:57:16 GMT
Yet another strong entry for the Torchwood Monthly Range! I loved the hard pivot from comedy to thriller partway through. I admit, I have begun to expect the kind of dark twist at the end from Torchwood stories, especially from the other eras in the monthly range. Thankfully, they pull it off 90% of the time (this episode included).
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Post by nottenst on Jul 24, 2024 17:50:41 GMT
I just listened to this and agree with most of the comments above. Another banger monthly release. Very well done with an effective ending.
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