Big Finish Doctor Who Audios: Zagreus - Gary Russell and Alan Barnes

Aug 01, 2008 14:20

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Since Zagreus is nearly four hours long and features a rather convoluted plot, this reaction post is slightly different. It's a "stream-of- ( Read more... )

character: charley pollard, character: brigadier lethbridge-stewart, writer: alan barnes, reaction post, character: eighth doctor, big finish audio plays, writer: gary russell, character: romana ii

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persiflage_1 August 1 2008, 14:17:05 UTC
And even more of a love letter to Big Finish, I think, with Maggie (Evelyn), India (Charley), Lisa (Benny) and Miles (Brax) involved as well...

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persiflage_1 August 1 2008, 15:10:21 UTC
I don't know Erimem so it wasn't so much a case of forgetting as being ignorant on that score!

I did forget Jason - bad Pers!

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offthebalcony August 1 2008, 14:30:52 UTC
I've rambled about this audio quite a lot recently so I won't do it again but I really love it. And their "goodbye" scene made me cry. Ohhhhh man, it hurt (not as much as their real goodbye did mind) and zagreus!Eight was scary but awesome and snarky and EIGHHHTT *clings to him*

And The Doctor's talking about how they each died made me grin like loon for the most part (after I'd gotten finished with flailing FIIIIIIIVE most of the way through XD)

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persiflage_1 August 1 2008, 14:35:55 UTC
I confess I'm pretty much dreading Eight and Charley's real goodbye...

Yes, the Doctors discussing their various deaths was very good - I forgot that bit!

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offthebalcony August 1 2008, 14:40:02 UTC
Their real goodbye is probably one of the very most heartbreaking ever for me. I mean, there's the whole "she travels with Six" thing but it's not the same and doesn't make it any less hurty (now, if it would've been Five she travelled with it might have made a little bit better.. XD)

And I loved Charley's snarky, "Tweedledum, Tweedledee and their fried... Teewdle-ego." XD Because ahaha, that's Six.

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persiflage_1 August 1 2008, 14:44:41 UTC
No it's not going to be the same as Eight'n'Charley... My life, never will it be the same!

And I loved Charley's snarky, "Tweedledum, Tweedledee and their friend... Teewdle-ego." XD Because ahaha, that's Six.

Hee, yeah!! *squishes Six*

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sneakyangel August 1 2008, 14:31:47 UTC
Eight and Charley's farewell DID have me in tears, and Zagreus was only the second audio I had listened to at that point! Thats a very powerful scene.

I've noticed that the Alice story keeps cropping up in lots of the audios, not just Eighth Doctor ones.

Sophie Aldred has a fantastic voice for audio, doesn't she.

I love that the TARDIS is jealous of Eights love for Charley. That had me in hysterics!

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persiflage_1 August 1 2008, 14:37:28 UTC
Eight and Charley's farewell DID have me in tears, and Zagreus was only the second audio I had listened to at that point! Thats a very powerful scene.

Yes it was!

I've noticed that the Alice story keeps cropping up in lots of the audios, not just Eighth Doctor ones.

I don't think I've come across it in any other audios yet...

Sophie Aldred has a fantastic voice for audio, doesn't she.

Oh she really does!!

I love that the TARDIS is jealous of Eights love for Charley. That had me in hysterics!

It just proves what I keep saying Doctor/TARDIS is the only OTP!!

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alto2 August 1 2008, 14:40:18 UTC
Your link tag's got an issue up there.. extra space, I think! :)

Zagreus!Eight didn't scare me--he broke my heart into a zillion tiny pieces. That's the part I was listening to in the doctor's office and wishing I was listening to somewhere else so I could cry my guts out.

Oh, and I wanted to kick Rassilon's self-centered evil arse!

Evil!Brig/TARDIS cracked me up when he started to list the indignities of having young women staying. But he really pissed me off when he tossed the Ella Fitzgerald records!! There's something so very wrong about the whole Evil!Brig/TARDIS idea itself, and yet...it really does work somehow, doesn't it? I think the fact that it sounds like the Brig makes the things the TARDIS says that much more painful.

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persiflage_1 August 1 2008, 14:48:17 UTC
Your link tag's got an issue up there.. extra space, I think! :)

What the link at the very top? It's meant to have extra spaces in - that's for the Who_Daily editor to copy and paste straight into the W_D newsletter, and it always has the extra spaces in (it was neadod's suggestion to save the W_D editors time.)

Zagreus!Eight didn't scare me--he broke my heart into a zillion tiny pieces. That's the part I was listening to in the doctor's office and wishing I was listening to somewhere else so I could cry my guts out.

Oh he made me want to weep too - but there were times when he really scared me - especially when he was blowing up bits of the TARDIS! I was barely restraining myself from shouting "No!"

Oh, and I wanted to kick Rassilon's self-centered evil arse!

Oh gods, yes!

Evil!Brig/TARDIS cracked me up when he started to list the indignities of having young women staying. But he really pissed me off when he tossed the Ella Fitzgerald records!! There's something so very wrong about the whole Evil!Brig/TARDIS idea itself, and yet...it ( ... )

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alto2 August 1 2008, 14:50:55 UTC
that's for the Who_Daily editor to copy and paste straight into the W_D newsletter, and it always has the extra spaces in

Ahh, okay. I wondered what it was doing up there in the first place!

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persiflage_1 August 1 2008, 14:55:35 UTC
Hee. Yeah - I could label it Who_Daily link, I suppose, but I never seem to remember! (Although it's marked "Link" on my fic posts!)

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moyas_starburst August 1 2008, 16:58:37 UTC
This tale sounds very dark and good, I wonder what the next installment will be about? Wish I could see a vast collection of Who audio, but alas when my local ottakkers was not bought out by waterstones, I never took the advantage, I was thinking they would stock em like before! Silly me!

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persiflage_1 August 1 2008, 17:33:40 UTC
Oh definitely silly!

The next installment is Eight and Charley learning to cope in the Divergent Universe... It's just the two of them.

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moyas_starburst August 1 2008, 17:37:26 UTC
I haven't listened to it but reading the wikki page and your thoughts I feel as though I must know what happends next! lol.

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persiflage_1 August 1 2008, 17:44:22 UTC
I see...

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