Comments | kindkit: the company of friends

kindkit

the company of friends

Jul 28, 2009 23:02

I finally managed to download The Company of Friends from Big Finish and listen to the Fitz section (the audio includes four 25-minute stories with the Eighth Doctor and different companions).

( non-spoilery review below the cut )

fandom: doctor who (audios), fandom: doctor who (eight)

Comments 7

doyle_sb4 July 29 2009, 08:57:46 UTC

Eight/Fitz shippers won't be disappointed, either

I cracked up at the "Doctor! Oh, come here, you..." Even in audio form, Eight/Fitz hugs are mandatory.

brewsternorth July 29 2009, 13:22:41 UTC

Awww - can't wait!

kindkit July 29 2009, 14:45:39 UTC

The hug was great. I also loved the bit earlier when they're saying goodbye, and there's this odd pause in the dialogue with a faint sound in the background. I replayed it about four times thinking "Did they just kiss?" The sound was supposed to be a footstep, I guess, but I choose to believe they kissed each other goodbye. Especially since Fitz's voice goes all deep and emotional in his next line.

doyle_sb4 August 3 2009, 10:26:07 UTC

I think he's turning on his heel to walk away, but if it's a kiss in your head then that's fine too.

<-- new paid account!; i should get a fitz icon lullabee_lj August 6 2009, 16:57:24 UTC

It's sort of EDA canon anyway that Fitz's accent is easily distinguishable from cockney - he feels a bit ignored at one point in Revolution Man, while they're in London, and he starts doing this local guide schtick with a fake cockney accent. I've heard David Tennant and Hugh Laurie do fake versions of their real accents, but never have I ever heard somebody switch from their real accent to a fake version of it, and I'm sure that would have been worthy of mention if he had just switched from a regular cockney accent to the accent of some kind of cockney turf accountant from Oliver!But I seriously had a good laugh at the idea of Fitz sounding like a heavy from any program whatsoever. Rather than get into a fight, he hides and does intimidating thug voices! And when he does get in fights, he fights dirty in the manner of somebody who's not strong enough to throw a solid punch. He's not supposed to be any kind of intimidating individual. I've always imagined his voice being just a smidge higher than Eight's... of course, as I'm kinda ( ... )

Re: <-- new paid account!; i should get a fitz icon kindkit August 6 2009, 19:26:31 UTC

I dislike the idea of him having a posher accent than he should have.

*nods* I don't think he necessarily would--I just think he's more likely to do that than to make his accent more working-class. There was something about Di Angelo's accent on the audio that felt very deliberate, like Fitz was one of those guys who fell in love with Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels and went all mockney.

Re: <-- new paid account!; i should get a fitz icon lullabee_lj August 10 2009, 18:16:31 UTC

Mockney seems to be the province of people more middle-class than Fitz. You know, people who'd have had a TV by 1963 and wouldn't buy ex-jukebox records. You have to be more upper-class than he is to think it's a lark to act more lower-class than you are. And anyway he likes James Bond too much to go in for mockney. If he were to constantly affect a different accent, it would be posh. But it just seems wrong to try too hard to have a lower-middle class character be superficially upper-middle class, even more than on general principles it seems naive to think it makes any sense at all for such a character (James Bond wannabe or not) to do mockney.