Devil in the Mist
Jan. 21st, 2019 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quipxoticDrabbles for the Fifth Doctor audio "Devil in the Mist" by Cavan Scott are now online. I enjoyed this one quite a bit and, despite my skepticism about resurrecting Kamelion, Big Finish and Jon Culshaw did an excellent job with him. He had a lot more depth and vulnerability here than in his TV episodes (which wouldn't be hard since he was only in them a hot minute due to technical issues). Plus they pulled off a combination of creepy menace and guileless innocence in this version of the robot, which makes sense for the character's backstory and seems like something that would be pretty hard to do. I also really enjoyed the amount of character moments Turlough and Tegan got - Tegan leading her own group of crash survivors and Turlough both taking care of the Doctor and being forced into taking on some Doctor-ish physical heroism. All that and talking Hippos in space armor makes for a good time.
While I was writing these, I also moved around some other Fifth Doctor drabbles to give a bit of a narrative break between “The Entropy Plague” and “The King’s Demons” and to cut down on the amount of Kamelion-free content between “The King’s Demons,” “Doctor Who: Excelis Dawns,” and "Planet of Fire." Probably no one but me will notice or care about that, but if Kamelion is going to be in the audios now it doesn't make sense for him to disappear without comment for such long stretches of time. I know it didn't bother the show runners at the time, but it bothers me. Anyway, the long and short of that is that the drabbles for “The Sirens of Time“ and “Ringpullworld” now appear earlier in the chronology and I may move a few others forward as well.
"Haunting House Eight" is...nowhere really. I need to get back to working on it and hopefully I'll be able to today. At least that's the plan.
While I was writing these, I also moved around some other Fifth Doctor drabbles to give a bit of a narrative break between “The Entropy Plague” and “The King’s Demons” and to cut down on the amount of Kamelion-free content between “The King’s Demons,” “Doctor Who: Excelis Dawns,” and "Planet of Fire." Probably no one but me will notice or care about that, but if Kamelion is going to be in the audios now it doesn't make sense for him to disappear without comment for such long stretches of time. I know it didn't bother the show runners at the time, but it bothers me. Anyway, the long and short of that is that the drabbles for “The Sirens of Time“ and “Ringpullworld” now appear earlier in the chronology and I may move a few others forward as well.
"Haunting House Eight" is...nowhere really. I need to get back to working on it and hopefully I'll be able to today. At least that's the plan.
