Big FInish Grump

[neadods]

Okay Charlie is *literally* refrigerated, Every! Single! original character in the Lucie/8 line was killed by daleks (Lucie being crippled first), and now Hex has been permanently possessed by an elder god.

I don't see how - much less why - I could emotionally invest in a new original character knowing that they're going to inevitably come to a sticky end.

Usually I go to ChicagoTARDIS and load up on the BFs I don't already get on subscription. But frankly, at the moment I feel that I've gone completely off Big Finish's Doctor Who series. I certainly have no inclination to buy the new Eighth Doctor series... and I'm wrestling with the urge to tell Nick Briggs *why.*

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[airie-fairy.livejournal.com]

I'm midway through Dark Eyes right now, so I can keep you updated if you'd like.

That's sort of how I feel with the show itself right now. With audios, I find it easier to shove the stories I'm not interested in out of existence. Therefore, Charley's story ends with The Girl Who Never Was (which still isn't great, but mostly this is because I felt like they were overkilling Charley by not just letting the character go), and Lucie's story ends with Death in Blackpool and the drama surrounding that rather than let us refashion her into some battle-hardy person who we then kill off far from home, this girl who'd always been very attached to her family, rather than a curious and "gauche, ungainly" young lass, and meanwhile lets also shit all over the concept of the Doctor moving onto a new friend. Again.

Hex, like I told you, did actually work for me (though I was crushed, I love him), but given what the reasoning turned out to be, they should've just ended it at The Angel of Scutari (which wouldn't have been happier an end, but probably cleaner and less dragged out).

ETA: All in all, I would say, yes, totally, let him know. If I were going to be at any of these cons, I'd want to express my opinion about that, and actually also about their reluctance to let storylines end without always bringing them back for another wringing.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

At this point, I want full spoilers for Dark Eyes before I even consider it. And I am going to say something - if not about Hex, about the fact that I have no interest in Dark Eyes knowing the fate of 100% of the companions they've previously given Eight.

[airie-fairy.livejournal.com]

Well, Mary Godwin had a good time and decided to go home because she couldn't emotionally handle the extremity of the life. (I was surprised how much I loved her as a companion, and I'm actually hoping that wasn't the ending, but it seems to be.) Of course, they couldn't very well kill her off.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

That's an acceptable ending, IMO.

Although, even not knowing the circumstances I can't imagine they couldn't kill her off; nothing's stopped them before.

[airie-fairy.livejournal.com]

Well, Eight did make a big deal of making sure the future writer of Frankenstein doesn't get killed on his watch.

And yeah, I feel like that'd be my kind of reasoning for leaving were I a companion.

I just really loved her and wanted her around for more than three and a quarter audios, is what I mean.