I've updated the guide so the Torchwood stuff makes more sense.

They started Torchwood dramas with episodes set at various times through out the TV show's chronology, and released them as "series 1" and "series 2"

But then they wanted to make a continuation of the show, "Torchwood Series 5"

So to make it less confusing, they rebranded the other Torchwood dramas as "Torchwood Monthly Range".

The TARDIS wiki is a bit confused about this, so I'll be fixing that next.

I finished listening to The Beast of Kravenos – it's pretty good, but I'm not going to add a recommendation to my list yet.

Partly because it's part of Segment 214 (and I'm only up to Segment 3), but also because I want to see if my opinion changes after I watch The Talons of Weng-Chiang (The Beast of Kravenos features 2 characters from that story).

For future me: my current opinion is that it is worth listening to, but isn't highly recommended.

a few things:

• I finished listening to Segment 3! I really enjoyed it. (Now to go back and listen to Segment 1)
• I've updated the guide so that instead of saying "No" on the dramas I didn't love, it says "Maybe" – because that's what I actually mean, and I should be clear about that. (The "no" was carried over from when I was also reviewing audiobooks, and the first one, "The Lair of the Zarbi Supremo", was garbage)

I want to make the page easier to navigate, but I'm not really sure how – I can allow segments to be folded, but they'd reset after the page is reloaded. I also want to add a checklist, so that you can tick off a box next to the ones you've listened to, but I'm not sure how to do that*

*at least, with the way I've set up the guide – a previous version of the guide was automatically generated, and so the code for a checklist was simple.

I could add a table of contents, but since there's 259 segments that would be a 259 line table of contents right at the beginning.

I'm really not sure what to do...

I've simplified a part of my source file, so now instead of each segment being a big multi-line thing with a bunch of html, it's just a single line:

This also will make it much easier to implement things like next/previous buttons, without having to manually put them in

I'm listening to Doctor Who and the Pescatons.

This is really, really bad. It's confusing, it keeps switching tense between sentences (sometimes it's present tense, sometimes it's past tense), and the main plotline is basically "some aliens ask for the Doctor's help to resettle after their planet is destroyed, and he says no because... reasons?"

in the scene I just listened to, the Doctor was captured, held prisoner, and then while imprisoned subjected to a mental battle.

...but then suddenly he just leaves???? He goes directly from "being captured" to "having escaped".

Like, here's the actual thing word for word:

"we had been locked in mental battle, as the mighty zor had struggled to absorb my knowledge of the galactic universe and solar system.
However, my resistance was more than the pescaton leader had anticipated, and his mental pressure was no match for the special powers I had been gifted with.
I found my way back to the surface, and escaped from the evil that had almost engulfed me on the planet of pesca."

(my editor brain really wants to fix that first sentence too... why is it "had"??? it should be "we were locked in a mental battle, as the mighty zor struggled to absorb my knowledge")

The Doctor: But what if my plan didn't work? Hadn't Zor proved himself to be invincible and all powerful?

um... no? There was no proof of that.

Also, the Doctor keeps saying that the Pescatons are evil, which.... feels really out of character.

also, Sarah Jane and the Doctor are simultaneously acting like they've been travelling together for ages AND like they've only barely met each other.

alright, now that's finally finished…

my main question is... how did this happen? How did the writer (who had written for Doctor Who before) end up writing something that was so garbage?

How did the producers not notice that something was wrong?

How did Tom Baker narrate and perform this without going "hold on a minute, this doesn't feel right."

Doctor Who and the Pescatons is, almost certainly, the worst Doctor Who story I've had the displeasure of experiencing

@lizardsquid I vaguely made a start listening to Jago & Litefoot, as there seem to be a lot of BF audios on Spotify.

@wyrddrgn yeah, I'm glad they put a bunch of them up on spotify! (and Google Play, which is where I'm listening to them)

I haven't gotten around to Jago & Litefoot yet, but I hope to enjoy it when I do...

@lizardsquid I'll probably carry on with it when I resume commuting to the office on Monday.

May have to tactically investigate what else they have.

@wyrddrgn I have a list somewhere, I'll see if I can find it...

@wyrddrgn here it is: https://www.reddit.com/r/gallifrey/comments/4xfct5/doctor_whorelated_big_finish_audio_dramas/

they've got quite a lot of things

@lizardsquid Thanks.

@lizardsquid oof, Talons of Weng-Chiang is probably the most racist serial in main series Doctor Who. It does introduce Jago and Lightfoot, and the Time Agency (who don’t show up again until Captain Jack), but that doesn’t excuse what it does with its Chinese characters, or how the Doctor starts treating Leela a lot worse during and after. (It is Victorian, but that’s not an excuse either.)

@DialMforMara yeah, I saw some clips recently, and it's horrendous

@lizardsquid Were the pescatons the ones who asked help? If so, why would they do that?

Is the doctor ever established as a mental powerhouse?

@BatElite yeah, the pescatons asked for help, and then when the Doctor refused (it's never explained why he refuses to help) their leader tries to have a mental battle with him.

And then the doctor just walks away, I guess??? I don't even know

@BatElite oh, and yes – timelords are established as having strong mental powers fairly early on in the series. In Season 1 of the TV show, in fact!