Kaldor City - Checkmate and Storm Mine
Dec. 20th, 2007 10:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fangrrl_squeesRight then.
I've listened to the last two Kaldor City audios - Checkmate and Storm Mine - and my initial impressions are thus:
- Wow, the series certainly picked up in the latter half. Just goes to show that, despite my occasional teasing of writers' love for their favorite darlings (in this case, Chris Boucher's Robots of Death and the Fendahl), I think they made for better stories than the more pedestrian sex-and-violence motif of Occam's Razor, Death's Head and Hidden Persuaders
- That said... WTF? No, really, WTF?? As per - it seems - other listeners, I've come to the conclusion that Storm Mine is a bit confusing. Said confusion is only ameliorated a tad by accepting the proposed notion that it occurs 'inside' the Fendahl - all of the characters are now a part of its gestalt consciousness.
- Tracy Russel (Blayse) had to pretty much carry this one, and I thought she did admirably well.
- Oh. Wait. Iago's become a self-parody - or, at least, Blayse's parody of him - by now, huh? Right then, Darrow's performance makes sense. I think.
- Overall, I'm glad I stuck it out through the end of the run.
As I've mentioned before, when I've got an all-day bout of house-cleaning to do, I'm going to play the entire damn series back-to-back and see what I think of it, then. Will the difference in tone between the two "halves" be as perceptible, or not? I've been listening to the audios, one at a time, over the course of a year, so I'm willing to consider that my memory of the first three stories is rusty, at the very least. If nothing else, I'll probably get a good giggle out of them, again.
I haven't listened to the stand-alone bit (The Prisoner) yet, as I haven't summoned up the courage to listen to The Actor Speaks. Give me a day or two. I'm sure my curiosity will overcome caution by the new year.
Blech. A bit tired and stressed at the moment. Holiday and hubby "fun" abounds. More after Xmas, if not before...
PS. Santa, please to be sending me David Tennant and a jar of honey for Xmas. I've been very good this year, honest!
I've listened to the last two Kaldor City audios - Checkmate and Storm Mine - and my initial impressions are thus:
- Wow, the series certainly picked up in the latter half. Just goes to show that, despite my occasional teasing of writers' love for their favorite darlings (in this case, Chris Boucher's Robots of Death and the Fendahl), I think they made for better stories than the more pedestrian sex-and-violence motif of Occam's Razor, Death's Head and Hidden Persuaders
- That said... WTF? No, really, WTF?? As per - it seems - other listeners, I've come to the conclusion that Storm Mine is a bit confusing. Said confusion is only ameliorated a tad by accepting the proposed notion that it occurs 'inside' the Fendahl - all of the characters are now a part of its gestalt consciousness.
- Tracy Russel (Blayse) had to pretty much carry this one, and I thought she did admirably well.
- Oh. Wait. Iago's become a self-parody - or, at least, Blayse's parody of him - by now, huh? Right then, Darrow's performance makes sense. I think.
- Overall, I'm glad I stuck it out through the end of the run.
As I've mentioned before, when I've got an all-day bout of house-cleaning to do, I'm going to play the entire damn series back-to-back and see what I think of it, then. Will the difference in tone between the two "halves" be as perceptible, or not? I've been listening to the audios, one at a time, over the course of a year, so I'm willing to consider that my memory of the first three stories is rusty, at the very least. If nothing else, I'll probably get a good giggle out of them, again.
I haven't listened to the stand-alone bit (The Prisoner) yet, as I haven't summoned up the courage to listen to The Actor Speaks. Give me a day or two. I'm sure my curiosity will overcome caution by the new year.
Blech. A bit tired and stressed at the moment. Holiday and hubby "fun" abounds. More after Xmas, if not before...
PS. Santa, please to be sending me David Tennant and a jar of honey for Xmas. I've been very good this year, honest!
