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Post by mark687 on Jan 28, 2016 10:00:55 GMT
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Post by chapwithwings on Jan 28, 2016 11:57:23 GMT
Will listen to it tonight - review on Planet Mondas soon.
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Post by Hieronymus on Jan 28, 2016 12:39:55 GMT
Mark Strickson does an excellent job of performing the parts of the other characters.
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Post by kimalysong on Jan 28, 2016 13:11:46 GMT
I've had trouble getting into the short trips but this has been one of the few that had me fully engaged from start to finish. And I do think Mark's reading played a large part in that. Plus I enjoyed that this story delved into the relationship between Turlough with Five, Tegan,and Nyssa. I also enjoyed his inner conflict with the Black Guardian.
His depiction of Tegan was my favorite though. Ha Ha!
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Post by elkawho on Jan 28, 2016 21:08:58 GMT
I think the Short Trips range have been getting better and better. I loved The Flywheel Revolution, but then there were 1 or 2 that I wasn't able to get through without falling asleep. The last few, though, were really good. I wasn't going to keep buying stories from this range, but I changed my mind and think I'll keep listening if they stay this good.
I have always liked Mark Strickson and this story is another one that reinforces that. I think he did a great job. I agree, it was great hearing this story through his point of view, especially his conflict with the BG.
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Post by muckypup on Jan 31, 2016 14:25:45 GMT
mark strickson makes an excellent job of reading this.
I now want a different doctor to meet this older turlough.
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Post by Ela on Sept 4, 2018 0:42:33 GMT
I enjoy Mark Strickson a lot, so I really enjoyed listening to this one.
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Post by Kestrel on Jan 10, 2021 7:43:41 GMT
So I bought this one as part of the Master sale, and... really? Kinda threw me for a loop. At first I thought the Black Guardian was supposed to be the Master, which was confusing for me, because I remembered the whole deal with Turlough being used by the Black Guardian. Just... bizarre. Did BF really include this in the sale simply because Nyssa very briefly alludes to the Master in a single line of dialog? Really? Really?
Beyond that, I found this a very enjoyable story. Especially the ending, about adventuring being the "prerogative of a young man." I know I have a tendency to get drawn off-topic, so forgive me, but I've been meaning to write a (brief) essay on the the "genius" of the Time War, both in terms of how it affected RTD's new TV series, and what it's enabled Big Finish to do, and this line really reminded me of that. The thing is, the Doctor never has to grow up like the rest of us. He's an immortal, adventuring hero: for him, the adventure never ends. And because it never ends, he can never look back on his life, and decontextualize his life. He's stuck in a kind of perpetual adolescence. Turlough here has the luxury of thinking back on his adventures, and he recognizes that this is something the Doctor very likely does not to--because, I think, the Doctor is fundamentally incapable of doing so. With his magic box, he always had the option of going home again, whether he chose to or not.
I've said before here, I think, that it's impossible to know a thing until its end. Only then, can you understand a thing in its entirety. And the Doctor's adventure has no end, so he never has the opportunity to see it as a whole. The Time War changed that. It gave form and shape to the Doctor's life. A clear past, present and future. It forced the Doctor to "grow up." Turlough's Doctor could never sit back and think of his past adventures... but the 12th Doctor absolutely could--and likely did.
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