Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

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It looks like they stop doing paranormal stories after Main Range 26: Primeval

thank goodness for that... I think the oversaturation of the audio dramas with Supernatural Nonsense That Turns Out To Be Aliens is starting to get a little draining.

MR 10: Winter for the Adept
features a poltergeist

MR 13: The Shadow of the Scourge
features creatures from another dimension which feed on dark thoughts

MR 19: Minuet in Hell
features "demons" who feed off fear and anger.

That's 37%.

37% of the main range stories so far feature either paranormal themes or emotion eating psychic creatures.

and the next one?
it features a werewolf.

Also I'm getting an increasing sense of "the audio dramas like to make paranormal things real or have creatures that feed on emotions"

MR 2: Phantasmagoria
features an occultist and seemingly supernatural phenomenon

MR 4: The Land of the Dead
features ancient creatures from Koyukon mythology

MR 5: The Fearmonger
features a creature which feeds on fear.

MR 9: The Spectre of Lanyon Moor
features a Spectre/imp

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and I especially don't like that the 8th Doctor has such a diminished role in this story.

I usually like stories where the Doctor is absent/barely there (like Blink, Turn Left, and The Crimson Horror), but in this case I'm not too sure.

Especially since we have the Brigadier here! The Brigadier and the 8th Doctor only properly meet up in Part 4, and it feels like somewhat wasted potential.

Thinking about Minuet in Hell again, and there are so many elements that I like:

• it features the Brigadier alongside the 8th Doctor, for the first time
• it's set on Earth, but not in London
• there are 3 seemingly separate plot-lines happening at once, and the ways they weave into each other are amazing

But I don't like how edgy it is.

(continued)

I forgot how beautiful this piece was:

https://youtu.be/EOecmVS8Bg0

I still can't get over this image I found the other day

I was going to listen to the A Song of Ice and Fire audiobooks, but the narrator for them just sounds horrible to me... I tried listening to a sample and I was constantly taken out of the fiction by his distracting voice.

Also: a song of ice and fire is a book with a narrative structure that I really like (a soap opera, but in a "historical" fantasy), but I resent a lot of the gross stuff in it. Are there any similarly *structured* books that aren't as edgy?

Speaking of Nicholas Briggs, he just answered a question of mine in the latest Big Finish podcast:

https://www.bigfinish.com/podcasts/v/2019-02-24-the-avengers-and-listeners-emails

(at around the 9 minute mark)

I didn't like this one as much, and even though it's not the *worst*, it did have several themes that made me uncomfortable.

I did like that they had Nicholas Briggs playing a man who had been caught up in a time vortex malfunction and was convinced that he was The Doctor
(Briggs had previously played the Doctor in some fan audio dramas several years earlier.)

*grows an anteater-like snout*
Woops

The anxious system