Doctor Who Audio: CC 4.02 The Glorious Revolution
Sept 17, 2014 23:16:12 GMT -5
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Post by 🐍 cahusserole 🐍 on Sept 17, 2014 23:16:12 GMT -5
(UGH JUST WRITE ONE OF THESE DAMN THINGS, HUSSY!)
Doctor: Second
Companions: Jamie, Zoe
Companion Chronicles are kind of like stripped-down Big Finish stories. They have fewer actors than other stories. They're half the length of a Main Range audio. The concept of the CC is that they're told from the point of view of one of the Doctor's companions. In this case, one James McCrimmon.
A Time Lord comes to visit an aged Jamie (he's married, has had like a million children and a billion grandchildren) and wants to ask him about some fuckery in the timeline when he was traveling with the Doctor. "Bwuh?" is basically Jamie's response, and then the Time Lord's like, "Oh right, we fucked with your brain and removed several years from your memory. Well, it's fixed and now you remember!"
Except... this story doesn't make all that much sense. Yes, Jamie did fuck around with the events of the Glorious Revolution, but then he, Zoe, and the Doctor set it all right again. So... there was really nothing wrong with the timeline that the other Time Lord would need to fix. I'm not even sure how he'd notice it in the first place. And why would he come to Jamie now? He's a Time Lord, he could go anywhen. He could go back to the events in question and... not have to do anything because Team Doctor already fixed it. I just—I don't get the conceit of this episode.
Personal takeaway from this story:
Yay, Jamie gets his memories back! And then he fucking asks to have them wiped again! JAMIE YOU ABSOLUTE DUMMY.
Also, Frazer Hines does do quite a good Patrick Troughton impression. His take on Wendy Padbury's voice could use some work, though.
(tagging Prole Hole so he sees this)
Doctor: Second
Companions: Jamie, Zoe
Companion Chronicles are kind of like stripped-down Big Finish stories. They have fewer actors than other stories. They're half the length of a Main Range audio. The concept of the CC is that they're told from the point of view of one of the Doctor's companions. In this case, one James McCrimmon.
A Time Lord comes to visit an aged Jamie (he's married, has had like a million children and a billion grandchildren) and wants to ask him about some fuckery in the timeline when he was traveling with the Doctor. "Bwuh?" is basically Jamie's response, and then the Time Lord's like, "Oh right, we fucked with your brain and removed several years from your memory. Well, it's fixed and now you remember!"
Except... this story doesn't make all that much sense. Yes, Jamie did fuck around with the events of the Glorious Revolution, but then he, Zoe, and the Doctor set it all right again. So... there was really nothing wrong with the timeline that the other Time Lord would need to fix. I'm not even sure how he'd notice it in the first place. And why would he come to Jamie now? He's a Time Lord, he could go anywhen. He could go back to the events in question and... not have to do anything because Team Doctor already fixed it. I just—I don't get the conceit of this episode.
Personal takeaway from this story:
Yay, Jamie gets his memories back! And then he fucking asks to have them wiped again! JAMIE YOU ABSOLUTE DUMMY.
Also, Frazer Hines does do quite a good Patrick Troughton impression. His take on Wendy Padbury's voice could use some work, though.
(tagging Prole Hole so he sees this)
