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[quipxotic]

Let's see, what have I been up to lately...

I've got a couple of audiobooks that I'm listening to at the moment. I've started working my way through the Lord Peter Wimsey books by Dorothy L Sayers and I like them, for the most part. I'm also listening to Audible's version of Dracula, which is narrated by a full cast including Alan Cumming as Dr. Seward and Tim Curry as Van Helsing.

As far as fan fiction goes, I've posted drabbles for the Fifth Doctor audio "The Kamelion Empire," the Seventh Doctor/Bernice Summerfield story "The Hesitation Deviation," and the Seventh Doctor TV serial "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy," which I watched for the first time this weekend. Of those three, "The Kamelion Empire" was the standout by far. It focused on the relationships between the Fifth Doctor, Kamelion, Tegan, and Turlough, which means lots of juicy conflict and hard-won friendship. The story's writer, Jonathan Morris, also gave a fairly good in-story explanation for why Kamelion disappears from the TV series for so long, which is a nice, geeky extra. "The Hesitation Deviation" is good also, but I'd listened to it for the first time months ago and am just now getting around to writing for it. As for "The Greatest Show on Earth"...well, I'd say it was a disappointment but I wasn't really expecting much based on the gif sets floating around. It's not a story I'll be in a hurry to watch again.

Today I finished listening to the audiodrama version of Love and War. I've tried to listen to it before but found it too depressing. This time it was fine - not a favorite, but okay. I'm starting to think the Virgin New Adventure books aren't really for me; the only one I've really liked has been Theatre of War. Anyway, I'll probably write drabbles for Love and War later this week.

"Hill House Eight" is not dead but it's...stuck. I keep trying to get it unstuck, but I'm starting to think I have some basic structural issues that need to be addressed/changed. I don't know...I guess we'll see.

Comments

[sanguinity]

Well, his buying her a dog collar is just so wtf, I was wondering if they left it in or not. Although Sayers hangs enough things on it that it makes sense to leave it in. That, and it's certainly memorable -- people would notice it being left out. But one does wonder if the whole dog collar business had quite the same connotations in nineteen-thirty-whatever.

[quipxotic]

It's interesting what they leave in vs what they take out. Going back and listening to the first stories in audio drama form has given me something to compare them to. In "Clouds of Witness" they act out Peter getting the letter from the mistress in America, but skip a lot of the court proceedings. In "Whose Body?" they completely skip Freke's attempt to kill Parker and only mention a few of the highlights from his suicide letter.

I have to say, I much prefer the unabridged audiobooks for the first two books over the audio dramas. There's just something...lacking. It's like the major events are there but the soul of the thing isn't.