Muttering, Muttering.
Oct. 2nd, 2006 09:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fangrrl_squeesWhat's the world coming to when a person has to pay for content instead of stealing it fair and square off the 'net? My loss is Magic Bullet's gain, I guess. I've just plunked down the dosh for the third Kaldor City audio -The Hidden Persuaders.
I think it's going to be a make-or-break story regarding my opinion of the series as a whole. I was ready to give up after the somewhat disappointing Death's Head - even with its improvement upon a second listening - but I'm a stubborn cuss and, by God, if I can wade through a dozen Xanth novels, most of Anne Rice's vampire series and god knows how many of MLackey's Valdemar books, I can give an audio series three stories before making a final decision. Even if it stinks, I doubt it'll be the worst bit of writing I've ever encountered - she says, remembering some of the tripe she read in high school...
I think I can just about hold off the fic-fairies that have been flitting about this one, but only just. With luck, all of the ideas I've got will be blown to flinders by THP and I can dedicate the braincells to something more worthwhile. Like, y'know, B7 fanfic.
I've just started listening to ...ish (Six and Peri) and, usual wincing at Nicola Bryant's accent aside, I've been drawn into it despite an initial coolness to the first few minutes. Locked door mysteries usually provoke a bit of eyeball-rolling at my end, but Six's wallowing in joie-de-vivre - well, joie-de-very-bookish-subjects, really - and some interesting characterization from the supporting guys and gals have managed to pull me in.
I must say, my hat's off to whoever devises the myriad vocal treatments one encounters in these audios. You'd think that there'd be only so many ways to convey a robot, an anthropomorphized gastropod, a vast alien entity, etc, etc, but the sound designers manage to keep it fresh and interesting. I particularly like Book's voice in this one. It's a regular voice with a metallicized undertone is the only way I can describe it, and I know that's far from correct - reminds me of The Kro'ka, a bit... Never mind how it's done, I really enjoy it. The (usually) excellent sound design is definitely something that keeps me coming back to Big Finish.
Meanwhile, I'm flipping through screengrabs of David Tennant in Blackpool and sighing dreamily. Thank circumstance for cute fellas with an oral fixation...
I think it's going to be a make-or-break story regarding my opinion of the series as a whole. I was ready to give up after the somewhat disappointing Death's Head - even with its improvement upon a second listening - but I'm a stubborn cuss and, by God, if I can wade through a dozen Xanth novels, most of Anne Rice's vampire series and god knows how many of MLackey's Valdemar books, I can give an audio series three stories before making a final decision. Even if it stinks, I doubt it'll be the worst bit of writing I've ever encountered - she says, remembering some of the tripe she read in high school...
I think I can just about hold off the fic-fairies that have been flitting about this one, but only just. With luck, all of the ideas I've got will be blown to flinders by THP and I can dedicate the braincells to something more worthwhile. Like, y'know, B7 fanfic.
I've just started listening to ...ish (Six and Peri) and, usual wincing at Nicola Bryant's accent aside, I've been drawn into it despite an initial coolness to the first few minutes. Locked door mysteries usually provoke a bit of eyeball-rolling at my end, but Six's wallowing in joie-de-vivre - well, joie-de-very-bookish-subjects, really - and some interesting characterization from the supporting guys and gals have managed to pull me in.
I must say, my hat's off to whoever devises the myriad vocal treatments one encounters in these audios. You'd think that there'd be only so many ways to convey a robot, an anthropomorphized gastropod, a vast alien entity, etc, etc, but the sound designers manage to keep it fresh and interesting. I particularly like Book's voice in this one. It's a regular voice with a metallicized undertone is the only way I can describe it, and I know that's far from correct - reminds me of The Kro'ka, a bit... Never mind how it's done, I really enjoy it. The (usually) excellent sound design is definitely something that keeps me coming back to Big Finish.
Meanwhile, I'm flipping through screengrabs of David Tennant in Blackpool and sighing dreamily. Thank circumstance for cute fellas with an oral fixation...
