Apparently, this is not a popular story, but I quite like it. Mostly for the flight-crew. I just really do like them. They are just so engaging to me.
One neat character bit is when Five is so angry with Professor Hayter about Hayter's willingness to abandon his fellow passengers. My mind always flashes back to the Daleks and the Doctor's intent to leave Barbara behind. He's come a long way.
My two major problems with this story are: I still don't understand why they specifically needed the Master for this story, and Adric's death gets shoved under the rug with almost uncomfortable speed (that's why I loved The Boy That Time Forgot, because they actually stop and talk about it). Other than that, it sat with me okay.
See, now The Boy that Time Forgot makes me spitting mad. So far as I'm concerned it absolutely spits on the character of Adric. Completely ruins him and I can get just absolutely furious even thinking about it. That story is like an abomination to me. I absolutely disregard all Thomas Brewster stuff (and refused to listen to subsequent ones with him) because it's connected to that.
I do agree that Adric's death is brushed aside way too quickly (as it the destruction of Traken and Tremas' death for Nyssa, btw, though that matters less to the audience), but The Boy that Time Forgot is just salt in the wound to me.
I'm honestly a bit surprised at the negative reaction that some people give that audio, particularly the people who like Adric. Personally, I thought it gave me the closure for his character that Time-Flight denied me, but I do agree that his overall character was WAY different (I mean, technically this can be excused by the fact that he's been living in isolation with giant talking bugs for 500 years, but still...)
I think it's safe to say that Classic Who in general doesn't make a lingering deal about death. I don't know if you read DWM, but in a recent issue Matthew Waterhouse expressed disappointment in the fact that Adric (in the long run) was essentially written as taking his own brother's death so lightly, because something like that should have a lasting impact on a character (also, Matthew unfortunately learned from experience just 2 years before joining the show what it's like for an older brother to die)
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One neat character bit is when Five is so angry with Professor Hayter about Hayter's willingness to abandon his fellow passengers. My mind always flashes back to the Daleks and the Doctor's intent to leave Barbara behind. He's come a long way.
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I do agree that Adric's death is brushed aside way too quickly (as it the destruction of Traken and Tremas' death for Nyssa, btw, though that matters less to the audience), but The Boy that Time Forgot is just salt in the wound to me.
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I think it's safe to say that Classic Who in general doesn't make a lingering deal about death. I don't know if you read DWM, but in a recent issue Matthew Waterhouse expressed disappointment in the fact that Adric (in the long run) was essentially written as taking his own brother's death so lightly, because something like that should have a lasting impact on a character (also, Matthew unfortunately learned from experience just 2 years before joining the show what it's like for an older brother to die)
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