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I really, really enjoyed this. I'm a very visual person so I don't generally get on well with audio-only productions, but this was great!
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Okay, so I'm late to the party. Like, eleven years late. I don't do audio plays, as a rule, but I've finally been working my way through a few of them over the last couple of years, starting with the ones focussing more on Jack, because he's what I've always been interested in. But I've started getting more interested in TW in general recently so I've been slogging my way through the Torchwood Collected Radio Dramas (and it has been a slog, tbh, because most of them have been extremely mediocre!) and finally made it to The House of the Dead.
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Oh wow. I got this for Christmas and finally had a chance to listen to it today whilst doing my ironing (definitely livened up the ironing!) and, well, obviously it was going to be tremendous fun, with Jack Harkness and John Hart finally getting to play off each other again, but wow, it really was fun!
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Great fun. Highly recommend. :-)
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Great fun. Highly recommend. :-)
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OMG. I just finished listening to this and I had to post straight away because it is AWESOME! As I've said before, I am really not into audio only because I find it hard to maintain concentration and I just really, really miss the visuals of the actors' faces etc., but wow. I was excited going into this one because it was about Jack at the Time Agency, but it not only exceeded my expectations, it really blew me away!
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For Christmas I got the Big Finish "The Lives of Captain Jack" CDs. I am not at all into audio plays because I am a very visual person and find it hard to manage without the visuals, especially faces, and without the descriptions of thought processes you get in written media, but I'd already tried out "Broken" and "The Conspiracy" last year and when this boxset came out I knew I had to have it. I mean, the chance to get even a tiny glimpse into some of Jack's past that's been glossed over on the TV? Who wouldn't want that?
(I'd also really, really love some new *future* canon, even if it isn't really considered canon, but just *something* to give me *some* ideas for role-playing purposes of what Jack might be up to post-Miracle Day. Maybe that'll come next? *crosses fingers*)
Anyway, I just listened to "The Year After I Died" and it was pretty good. A rather big section in the middle with no Jack (I mean, he's who we're all here for, isn't he!) but otherwise pretty entertaining and it felt like it fitted well into the DW universe. Not as many new insights into Jack as I'd hoped for, but there were some nice little snippets.
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(I'd also really, really love some new *future* canon, even if it isn't really considered canon, but just *something* to give me *some* ideas for role-playing purposes of what Jack might be up to post-Miracle Day. Maybe that'll come next? *crosses fingers*)
Anyway, I just listened to "The Year After I Died" and it was pretty good. A rather big section in the middle with no Jack (I mean, he's who we're all here for, isn't he!) but otherwise pretty entertaining and it felt like it fitted well into the DW universe. Not as many new insights into Jack as I'd hoped for, but there were some nice little snippets.
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I was looking forward to getting to In the Dark in my Angel S1 rewatch and it was just as much fun as I remembered. But the moment it started, I couldn't help thinking of the similiarites with KKBB. Mainly because they both start with James Marsters up on a roof giving us a nice little introduction to his character. And of course because he's basically playing the same part in both of them. Old shag (I would say love but that's not really true in either case) of the leading man - the dark, mysterious, older-than-he-looks leading man - with whom he has a love/hate relationship. Meeting the team and chatting up the girls (Cordy/Tosh/Gwen) and the girls falling for it, even if only briefly. And there's torture in ITD while in KKBB Jack's just got back from the year on the Valiant. Both episodes even end with another rooftop scene and a sunset! (Or is it sunrise in KKBB? I can't remember. Same coloured sky, anyway!)
I know it's nothing deep, but it amused me, and I can't help wondering how much of the mirroring in KKBB was deliberate!
I know it's nothing deep, but it amused me, and I can't help wondering how much of the mirroring in KKBB was deliberate!
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Wow.
Just... Wow.
(more later when my brain has had a chance to assimilate it)
Just... Wow.
(more later when my brain has had a chance to assimilate it)
Nope, sorry, you've lost me with this one.
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Ah well, at least next week's looks more interesting, even if I'm not convinced by Gwen turning on Jack one tiny bit. *g*
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Ah well, at least next week's looks more interesting, even if I'm not convinced by Gwen turning on Jack one tiny bit. *g*
Not sure what I think of this one. It's not a bad story, though it feels very reminiscent of Angel's second episode, Lonely Hearts. But it didn't really grab me either. It felt… cold, somehow?
So I'm just going to type up what I wrote down while I was watching it.
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So I'm just going to type up what I wrote down while I was watching it.
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This wasn't as bad as I remembered. When I first saw it, I was disappointed because I was expecting – I don't know what I was expecting but it was something more like Doctor Who, not what is basically a variation on the various police/detective serials. I thought it was going to be different.
( Review of Everything Changes )
( Review of Everything Changes )