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tardis_libraryRecs Bingo again: Here is my card and while I am not doing a great job at getting an actual bingo, this is my second row, third column fill for the prompt: Sound
Title: Poorly Worded
Creator: Kitty Eden (TheBigCat)
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 33877
Creator's Summary: Seven, Ace, Hex. A military bunker; an impossible murder, an unstoppable foe, and an ancient library – nobody’s having fun today.
Characters/Pairings: Seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex from the Big Finish Audios.
Warnings: None
Reasons for reccing: This is like a continuation or revisiting of the Audio Adventure Forty-Five, an anthology whose 4th chapter was quite an interesting premise for an audio story. The original was notable for the way it pitted the most scheming of the Doctor's incarnations in a battle of wits against an over-the-top, megalomaniacal foe: an entity who is a Lord of Words the same way the Doctor is a Lord of Time. This story really captures the feel of the audio adventures, with lots of shout-outs, jokes, peril, creativity and imagination, and some true emotions in there as well. It's snappy and quick and for a story focused on the sounds of language, is very visual. My one nitpick would be that as far as Who stories go, the minor character "red shirt" body count is a bit high; on the one hand it shows what an unstoppable and dangerously unbalanced menace the Word Lord is in order to motivate the heroes; but in terms of today's show's sensibilities it seems a bit out of character or lacking some true depth. But the past was a bit different, and the audios yet again a different kettle of fish. And despite a bit of red shirt motivation (and some blue language), the parts with the Doctor, Ace and Hex well make up for it. They are wonderfully in character with great dialogue and interactions, and a true delight in these dire circumstances. Overall it's a creepy, creative, funny, snappy piece with a brilliantly inventive denoument worthy of the Scottish schemer himself. Nobody shouldn't read this story...
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Introducing our intrepid adventurers in time and space!
The mysterious, enigmatic traveler only known as the Doctor! Intergalactic righter of wrongs; defender of the defenseless; also extremely accomplished (debatably) at playing the spoons. Currently in his seventh incarnation, the Doctor is shorter and even more Scottish and Machiavellian than ever before.
Ace McShane - in her own words, "I'm from a dysfunctional family and I cope by blowing things up. What's your excuse?" Righteously determined, gleeful in the presence of high explosives and bacon sandwiches, and in the habit of calling the Doctor 'Professor', Ace is possibly one of the few people in the universe who could get away with nicknaming a Time Lord and only suffering minor nose boops.
While undercover at a hospital in the year 2021, the Doctor and Ace ended up recruiting a staff nurse named Thomas Hector Schofield - or, as he prefers to be known, Hex, to help them deal with a Cyberman problem, and eventually to travel with them. Hex is more often than not a complete ball of anxiety and nerves, and his catchphrase is 'oh my god', which tells you pretty much everything you need to know about him.
Together, they fight: Aliens! Crime! Evil dictatorships! A stuffed bear, that one time! Sentient music! Marriage contracts! ...all of the above?
And now - to our story...
Link again: Poorly Worded
Title: Poorly Worded
Creator: Kitty Eden (TheBigCat)
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 33877
Creator's Summary: Seven, Ace, Hex. A military bunker; an impossible murder, an unstoppable foe, and an ancient library – nobody’s having fun today.
Characters/Pairings: Seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex from the Big Finish Audios.
Warnings: None
Reasons for reccing: This is like a continuation or revisiting of the Audio Adventure Forty-Five, an anthology whose 4th chapter was quite an interesting premise for an audio story. The original was notable for the way it pitted the most scheming of the Doctor's incarnations in a battle of wits against an over-the-top, megalomaniacal foe: an entity who is a Lord of Words the same way the Doctor is a Lord of Time. This story really captures the feel of the audio adventures, with lots of shout-outs, jokes, peril, creativity and imagination, and some true emotions in there as well. It's snappy and quick and for a story focused on the sounds of language, is very visual. My one nitpick would be that as far as Who stories go, the minor character "red shirt" body count is a bit high; on the one hand it shows what an unstoppable and dangerously unbalanced menace the Word Lord is in order to motivate the heroes; but in terms of today's show's sensibilities it seems a bit out of character or lacking some true depth. But the past was a bit different, and the audios yet again a different kettle of fish. And despite a bit of red shirt motivation (and some blue language), the parts with the Doctor, Ace and Hex well make up for it. They are wonderfully in character with great dialogue and interactions, and a true delight in these dire circumstances. Overall it's a creepy, creative, funny, snappy piece with a brilliantly inventive denoument worthy of the Scottish schemer himself. Nobody shouldn't read this story...
**
Introducing our intrepid adventurers in time and space!
The mysterious, enigmatic traveler only known as the Doctor! Intergalactic righter of wrongs; defender of the defenseless; also extremely accomplished (debatably) at playing the spoons. Currently in his seventh incarnation, the Doctor is shorter and even more Scottish and Machiavellian than ever before.
Ace McShane - in her own words, "I'm from a dysfunctional family and I cope by blowing things up. What's your excuse?" Righteously determined, gleeful in the presence of high explosives and bacon sandwiches, and in the habit of calling the Doctor 'Professor', Ace is possibly one of the few people in the universe who could get away with nicknaming a Time Lord and only suffering minor nose boops.
While undercover at a hospital in the year 2021, the Doctor and Ace ended up recruiting a staff nurse named Thomas Hector Schofield - or, as he prefers to be known, Hex, to help them deal with a Cyberman problem, and eventually to travel with them. Hex is more often than not a complete ball of anxiety and nerves, and his catchphrase is 'oh my god', which tells you pretty much everything you need to know about him.
Together, they fight: Aliens! Crime! Evil dictatorships! A stuffed bear, that one time! Sentient music! Marriage contracts! ...all of the above?
And now - to our story...
Link again: Poorly Worded