Peri: Had to suffer some horrific attire, but still rocks. Not just saying that as a guy, either. :?P She's another character who's really blossomed nicely on audio. Both with the 5th Doctor and their new Egyptian-pharoah friend Erimem (LOVE her!), and in a few neat adventures with the Sixth. Was relistening to one of those today, actually...a story called "...ish" which as an english major you should ADORE. Brilliant piece all about language, revolving around a dictionary conference and a living word. It sounds insane, and it is, but gorgeously so, and with fantastic dialogue. *g*
Story Arcs: The thing to remember is that for most people--and certainly TPTB's target audience--following a story arc means buying a $22-$25 dollar double CD every month. (Or however much these go for in pounds.) Story arcs on TV rock because you can follow them inexpensively; story arcs in comic books get more dubious as they get longer. (And here I am buying the new weekly series '52' which DC is running for a whole year. *snerk*) I enjoy them on audio, but I understand the downside... And yeah, the balance in Who on telly last season and this season is just about perfect, I'd say. :?)
*Does the historicals dance too, as someone who's got enough history creds for a minor probably, if he wasn't already doing the theater minor, and maybe even so...*
Time War: Why should it limit anything? We don't know how long the Time War lasted, and it IS a Time War anyway. *snerk* Besides, nothing would stop the audios from showing us an ending of the 8th Doc's adventures and then going back and filling in more of them anyway. They did something similar with Evelyn Smythe, the new companion they gave the 6th Doc...one of the audios has her leaving him, but they've gone right on using her anyway, just dipping back in the timeline again. And after Terror Firma, a number of us fans are rather intrigued by the idea of some pre-Charley Eighth Doc audios...
And I'd love to see a flashback Time War epi on TV too. I'd love to see them fill in 8's regeneration into Nine that way, even, though I doubt they'd go for that. (It's too bad, I have a brilliant story idea in mind myself, which would be a good story for Ten & Rose which necessitated showing 8's regeneration into 9 as well, rather than it just being a gimmick. *g* If you'd like to know, I'll share via email!)
Timeless: Yup, I totally agree. Which is why I don't fault them too much for the muddling of the concept.
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Date: 2006-06-01 08:19 pm (UTC)Story Arcs: The thing to remember is that for most people--and certainly TPTB's target audience--following a story arc means buying a $22-$25 dollar double CD every month. (Or however much these go for in pounds.) Story arcs on TV rock because you can follow them inexpensively; story arcs in comic books get more dubious as they get longer. (And here I am buying the new weekly series '52' which DC is running for a whole year. *snerk*) I enjoy them on audio, but I understand the downside... And yeah, the balance in Who on telly last season and this season is just about perfect, I'd say. :?)
*Does the historicals dance too, as someone who's got enough history creds for a minor probably, if he wasn't already doing the theater minor, and maybe even so...*
Time War: Why should it limit anything? We don't know how long the Time War lasted, and it IS a Time War anyway. *snerk* Besides, nothing would stop the audios from showing us an ending of the 8th Doc's adventures and then going back and filling in more of them anyway. They did something similar with Evelyn Smythe, the new companion they gave the 6th Doc...one of the audios has her leaving him, but they've gone right on using her anyway, just dipping back in the timeline again. And after Terror Firma, a number of us fans are rather intrigued by the idea of some pre-Charley Eighth Doc audios...
And I'd love to see a flashback Time War epi on TV too. I'd love to see them fill in 8's regeneration into Nine that way, even, though I doubt they'd go for that. (It's too bad, I have a brilliant story idea in mind myself, which would be a good story for Ten & Rose which necessitated showing 8's regeneration into 9 as well, rather than it just being a gimmick. *g* If you'd like to know, I'll share via email!)
Timeless: Yup, I totally agree. Which is why I don't fault them too much for the muddling of the concept.