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i did a couple of more or less one offs first there may be some spoilers ahead for doctor who audios from more than a decade ago first 100 the 100th in the main range four short stories with the sixth doctor and evelyn smithe by four writers the first two are reasonably fun romps messing with history not least in that the first story refers to an event in the second as something that s already happened the third is a much darker more claustrophobic tale of a family with a dangerous secret and the fourth is a sometimes meta tale of sixie lurching frantically through his own past and future to find an assassin who at some point shot him with a viral weapon that will kill him in a hundred days not the only meta thing about this one it s fun as evelyn gets to see other incarnations of the doctor in action and six proves that he s capable of a devious plan or two enjoyable overall but a more subtle anniversary celebration than might be expected then the girl who never was i thought i might have listened to this a long time ago laura and i listened to the charlie pollard arc then went into the lucie miller stories years back but this one wasn t flagged as already heard in my doctor who audio spreadsheet and i don t think i ve heard it before i know we listened to the last c rizz story and i thought i d listened to this one but it was not familiar so a lot of timey wimey shenanigans cybermen and a lot less time spent on big goodbyes than i d expected and a post credits scene setting up what comes next well that was reasonably entertaining if not earth shattering so on to the 120s at this stage in the run of stories bf was doing three parters each story stood somewhat on its own while being part of a bigger story that would be resolved in the third good thing i m listening to them this way i guess because going a month between stories would mean i d forget a lot of what was going on as for how good the stories are well it varies castle of fear is the first part of the stockbridge trilogy with the fifth doctor visiting a town established in the doctor who magazine comic strip as a place where strange things happen this one tries way too hard to be monty python it s one thing to bring a pythonesque sense of humour to a story but too often the writer of this comedic part historical thinks it s enough to throw in elements taken directly from monty python and the holy grail or wherever introducing french knights with outrageous accents and references to mothers and elderberries is just coasting on someone else s work the trilogy continues with the eternal summer and plague of the daleks eternal summer had some good moments showing stockbridge as a town mysteriously sealed off where time passes at the wrong speed and repeats a bit of sapphire and steel in the mix until the story gets tangled in its technobabble as for plague of the daleks well it managed not to focus too much on the daleks which generally helps in a far future stockbridge people are behaving strangely because in fact they aren t exactly people it s a tourist destination depicting old earth life but somewhere nearby underground long forgotten daleks in suspended animation have begun to wake and i followed up with the first of the seventh doctor stories bringing back alternate universe nazi elizabeth klein the first trilogy finds the seventh doctor encountering elizabeth klein a nazi scientist he d encountered in a previous story who finds herself in our universe more or less instead of the one where she d helped the third reich win the war a thousand tiny wings is a pretty grim story appropriate enough for a doctor travelling alone post ace a small group of white british colonial women and klein are hiding in a farmhouse as the mau mau rebellion spreads through kenya that s more than enough for a suspenseful story but the stakes are raised with a dangerous alien threat the story doesn t lighten up it may be that it actually is a fair bit shorter than the davisons but it certainly felt like i got through it more quickly in survival of the fittest the doctor and klein find themselves on a planet populated by strange aliens being killed off by unscrupulous humans and klein seems to be learning the lessons the doctor is trying to teach her becoming a better person but no in the architects of history time is wrong due to klein stealing the doctor s tardis and trying to remake the universe as a nazi dream but it s not a big time spanning story it s mainly set on a moonbase attacked by the sharklike selachians over the course of the three stories we re sometimes led to think there s hope for klein but a nazi is a nazi the next trilogy features colin baker as the sixth doctor in city of spires the doctor finds himself in a distorted version of highlands scotland he encounters jamie mccrimmon whose memories of the doctor were wiped by the time lords after the war games he s a few decades older but still fighting the british and their strange monstrous assistants who are drilling for oil and building a big city to refine it and do sinister things but there are people there from different decades and scotland is not recognizable because of the mysterious villain s activities the wreck of the titan brings a lot of nautical adventure with the doctor and jamie finding themselves on the sinking titan then the sinking titanic and then on captain nemo s nautilus and the listener figures out where the doctor is before he seems to in legend of the cybermen the doctor realizing he s in the land of fiction finds himself in a war with cybermen determined to convert everyone in the land of fiction and with help from jamie zoe and some of the land s picturesque inhabitants he has to find the land s mistress the thing is once it s clear they re in the land of fiction the story s stakes seem a lot lower there are good stretches of the story that are a lot of fun but they re generally in the first two parts next up the fifth doctor tegan turlough and an older nyssa in what turns into a mara trilogy in cobwebs the doctor tegan and turlough find themselves in an abandoned base literally as the skeletons in a medical suite are theirs and they find nyssa who s left terminus and is researching a deadly disease and there s some jumping between the same place in two times it s a bit twisty and suspenseful in the whispering forest the gang find themselves on a planet with a small human colony living a low tech existence and obsessed with cleanliness and with the mysterious takers who kidnap their people but are never seen and shades insubstantial whispering things in the woods yes there s a long ago crashed spaceship and the ship s robots and a hidden medical facility and other complications and i m only a little way into the third but the mara s made itself known already i can t say i ve been blown away by any of these they re generally competently entertaining but dont do as much for me as say some of the eighth doctor s adventures with lucie miller or the main torchwood range stories but for anyone who liked the classic series they re fun if only there weren t quite so many of them so what else is new september 21 2021 posted by sjroby in uncategorized add a comment here we are almost in october which means it s been about a year and a half of pandemic and teleworking and two and a half years of life without laura i still find little surprises here and there just the other day i found a bunch of photos of her from 2004 for some work related thing just different shots of the same thing smiling not smiling that sort of thing this is the one i liked the best bass cadet april 15 2021 posted by sjroby in uncategorized add a comment one thing about telework i can listen to whatever music i want to as loud as i want to today i m listening to some of tempa s dubstep allstars compilations from back when dubstep still mattered a bit volume 09 by silkie and quest and volume 10 by plastician i ve always liked electronic music but for a long time that seemed to be the province of insipid new agers or microgenre obsessed uk dance music producers techstep darkstep glitch what when i first read about dubstep in xlr8r magazine or wherever it sounded interesting and i had an emusic account and many of the key labels and distributors were there so i could get a lot of it quickly easily inexpensively and legally it s always been about home listening for me i have to admit i would have been already over 40 married and suburban when i first heard it so late night clubbing wasn t my thing but dubstep at its best has a lot that worked for home listening a lot of it is atmospheric the music may be a long way from maximalism but it can capture moods the speed at 140 bpm is not sleep inducing more importantly the syncopated rhythms are a lot more interesting than straightforward house or techno 4 4 rhythms but most of it is also instrumental so it works as background music without being boring but it can also work as foreground music not all of it of course sturgeon s law applies but a lot of things came together at the right time electronic music magazines were still producing print issues record stores still existed but there were also a lot of mp3 and wav sellers online and places like dubstepforum there was a lot being produced a lot of communication going on and it was a scene anyone could follow along without having to be present you could invisibly keep up with a lot of interesting developments buying mp3s from boomkat or mail ordering big up magazine or buying woofah at a record store meant you were making at least a financial contribution to the scene it came to an end partly due to outsiders taking the sound and dumbing it down partly due to insiders taking the sound and dumbing it down it s hardly the only music scene to crash and burn as a result of worldwide success but a lot of that music still works for me writers matter december 12 2020 posted by sjroby in uncategorized tags cornell woolrich add a comment so i m reading an article about truffaut s film the bride wore black and the writer mentions how it s part of truffaut s hitchcock influenced period and mentions hitchcock s rear window specifically what he doesn t mention is that both films were based on stories by cornell woolrich whose short stories and novels were the basis of over a hundred radio shows movies and tv shows truffaut did two films based on woolrich stories i don t know how much control hitchcock had over the tv series named after him but the show adapted several woolrich short stories so maybe the fact that these great auteurs made movies based on woolrich s books means that there s something worth considering there shoot take a look at his imdb page eleven adaptations are at various stages of development and the guy s been dead for more than fifty years it may be a coincidence but the use of noir to describe a certain type of crime novel or movie came from série noire a line of french paperback translations of american crime fiction including woolrich s black series the bride wore black black alibi black path of fear rendezvous in black the black curtain the black angel i ve seen at least one source suggest that the novel series name was in fact inspired by that group of novels so basically you can t talk about noir without talking about woolrich go read some have to catch up one of these days december 10 2020 posted by sjroby in uncategorized add a comment i need to blather about some shows maybe about some books and music loving all the new star trek not getting all the fuss over the mandalorian disappointed in everyone who hasn t watched tales from the loop for a start facebook doesn t lend itself to much more than banter so i will probably spend more time here talking to myself review return to the planet of the apes december 8 2020 posted by sjroby in uncategorized tags planet of the apes add a comment suppose i told you that long before game of thrones and westworld long before babylon 5 and star trek deep space nine there was a serialized science fiction tv series that told a story with some standalone moments but that was focused on its ongoing arc elements and it was based on the planet of the apes movies and it wasn t the live action tv series it was the saturday morning cartoon revolutionizing science fiction storytelling on tv and it was called return to the planet of the apes well obviously you d tell me i was nuts and to be fair the above is an exaggeration the show was probably looking back at the old 1930s serials like flash gordon more than it was looking forward to anything the episode titles like flames of doom lagoon of peril attack from the clouds etc certainly have that old timey flair rather than modern day lens flare and yet i only saw a little of this back in the day because reception for the channel that aired it was really bad where i lived but at least i had the three novelizations which retold at least part of the story they ve recently been reprinted as planet of the apes omnibus 4 by titan books return to the planet of the apes is a sidestep from the main continuity of the movies the first clue is that it s set a couple of decades after the earth is destroyed at the end of beneath the planet of the apes on a noticeably not destroyed earth it also replays a lot of the beats from the beginnings of the first two movies though with new characters finally its ape civilization is much more technologically advanced than that in the earlier movies ape city is like a 20th century american city with tv newspapers country music radio trucks and howitzers though for all we know it may be the only city of its kind over the course of its thirteen episodes the show tells a tale interrupted by cancellation of the time travelling american astronauts trying to save the mute and uncivilized humans referred to as humanoids of the 40th century to a place where they ll be safe from being rounded up for slave labour or experimentation developments in one episode like the discovery of a 1940s airplane play out over a few episodes it s not like the live action series which as i recall is about its main characters wandering into a new area helping the humans getting chased and maybe temporarily captured by urko s ape army then moving on to the next place for pretty much the same experience the animated series makes progress in building a human settlement in the ape city political rivalry between ape leaders and in discovering and making connections with other groups of beings the underdwellers and the mountain apes that s not to say this is a wrongfully forgotten lost classic even for 1970s animation it sometimes looks remarkably cheap though the design and art can be surprisingly good there s also a small voice acting cast and it sounds like they double up on roles sometimes using fake sounding voices and some of the voice acting is stiff and lifeless the dialogue is rarely impressive but if you re 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