Holy Shit!

[eve11]

I just listened to Lucie Miller and To The Death, and holy hell, that was a dark freaking story. Holy shit, everybody dies! Lucie!!!! D: D: D: And Alex, and even Tamsin :( And AAAAAA, how fucking awesome was Lucie Miller before she kicked it and took a Dalek fleet and mine shaft with her? And the Doctor at the end, oh, you can see the start of something in him, something that makes it a hell of a lot easier to believe that when push came to shove, he'd damn the Time Lords if it meant taking the Daleks with him. It's like watching (well, listening to) the wounds get made that made all the dark parts that went into Eccleston and Tennant... Eight is one of those Doctors who seems vulnerable but never really is, and you don't realize it until you listen to the last bit of those stories.

The only nitpick I have is that Susan seemed to get over Alex's death pretty quickly.

Oh man. Oh Lucie. Oh, Doctor. Hell. Holy post-apocalypse. What else can he do but take all of that, everything, and tamp it down, bottle it away and then just keep going?

All right, I'm gonna go cry now :(

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[clocketpatch]

I was holding it all in until the bit with the recording at the end, and that was said, BUT THEN EIGHT STARTED TALKING TO IT. That was just holy crap AHHH!!

I've said it before, but: Eight scares me. He is very firmly on the terrifying side of the Doctor spectrum (okay, most of them are on that side, but Eight is Waaayyyy on that side). I can see him taking out a Dalek fleet and, unlike some other Doctors, I can see him doing it without feeling in the least bit guilty. Especially after this story. And when he was chewing out the monk? Oh man, oh man.

...I'm not entirely certain that Alex is dead though, well, I'm not entirely sure he was really Susan's son either. In any case, I'm very sad that him and Lucie both died because they were such a good couple and... right, now I'm going to off and bawl again.

[eve11]

Oh man, yeah, that last bit, I was just ... and mirroring his words from so long ago too, "one day I'll come back"... oh, oh, oh, and the way he knew he needed Susan to come with him to stop him, it was so much like Ten there, and the way he threatened to go back and erase the Daleks from history... and then at the end all he had was Lucie's recording.

Arg, I'm crying again.

[caz963.livejournal.com]

*waves" Here via who_daily to say that I thought these audios were fantastic. I've only recently started listening to BF stuff and whipped through all the Eight & Lucie adventures in a few weeks - I loved their dynamic and I waffled extensively about it here (http://caz963.livejournal.com/434114.html).

I definitely see Eight as being closer in temperament to Nine and Ten than to earlier Doctors and certainly after this, can see how he could end up wiping out the Time Lords in the war.

[goatsfoot.livejournal.com]

Here also via who daily and have to say, really agree. Am just blown away by the finale. Eight I reckon just might be my fave Dr (from the audios) though there's some stiff competition. Definitely think Briggs was consciously thinking about the Time War when he wrote this, and I'll be v interested to see where the character of Eight is taken. Though I do really love the whimsical side of Eight as well as the dark (though arguably that's the charm of all the Doctors, it co-existing).

That's a really lucid observation, that Eight seems vulnerable, but he really isn't. Quietly forceful and very self-possessed. Where it matters, he's frighteningly in control. Until he loses it. (I really don't get why some think he's insipid or boring.) Nine seems much more vulnerable to me, even with his much more sound-and-fury spiky exterior.

Yes, the fadeout of any focus on Alex after Lucie carks it really annoyed me, I mean, I know it was important writing-wise to give a big tribute to Lucie, but Susan had just lost her freakin SON!! And the Doctor's great-grandson. He might be back though, hmm. Doubt Lucie would though.

Also, it's a bit of a trope I am very slightly over - the main character who gets permanently disfigured/disabled is the one who gets sacrificed.

Doomsday bombs - that is a small New Who canon reference slipped in, right?

Farm, I really adore Graeme Gardener. Like McGann Snr, he has great vocal modulation (he was always so spiffy In the Goodies) and here he was just totally brill. Slimy, suave, and his fondness for Tamsin was actually pathetically touching. Given great writing. I want more of him.

I am chalking Tamsin's apparent denseness up to the comic-ness of her character archetype. Works for me. And random senseless Dalek killing ftw.

[goatsfoot.livejournal.com]

Farm=Fark. Auto-correct FTL.

[eve11]

Hi thanks for stopping by! I agree with all you said, too. So has Graeme Gardener been in any TV Who or other audios, because his voice sounds really familiar (He's the meddling monk, right?).