Neverland

How much do I love this audio? I love it so much that I can’t even describe it. This is really the audio that made me sit up and go I LOVE CHARLEY!!!ELEVEN!!! in my head. Yes, there were capslock.

She just has these two amazing speeches, one at the beginning and one at the end. And they’re both about doing the right thing, even if the right thing isn’t what you necessarily personally want and will lead to her death.

The first one where she makes the decision to go back and face the Time Lords is just brilliant. I love that she calls the Doctor Peter Pan and refers to herself as Wendy. And how Wendy eventually had to leave Neverland and go back to the real world and grow up and leave Peter Pan behind. She knew she wasn’t supposed to be alive and that her being alive was causing problems to time and so she went back to face the Time Lords and accept her fate. Because she had all those months of life that she wasn’t supposed to have and they were wonderful but it was time to grow up and accept the consequences of what happened on the R101.

The second one is at the end when the NeverPeople are going to use her to get back to Gallifrey and destroy the Eye of Harmony and the Web of Time. She’s begging the Doctor to kill her because the thought of those things being destroyed is worse then her dying and if she died then they wouldn’t be destroyed. If she hadn’t been tied to that chair she would have done it herself. And her horror when the Doctor doesn’t kill her, because everything will cease to exist in any meaningful way. No past, no future.

And there are clearly other things I like about this audio, but I’m a bit stuckbatshit about Charley. And December will be here soon and The Girl Who Never Was will be release and she will be GONE! Gone! And the title of the audio just doesn’t make me in anyway happy about her exit. Hopefully it’s not as horrible as it sounds. Cause the matrix fixed the paradox of her existence so I’m really hoping that they write her out good. Give her a beautiful exit and don’t make me cry.

And and umm…CHARLEY!

Yeah, that was really just a bunch of squee about Charley. One day I will be able to write up stuff about Neverland without squeeing. Today is not that day.

Shada

And why did I take so long to listen to this? Shada was brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Didn’t quite make it into the list of audios I probably shouldn’t listen to in public as people look at you funny when you burst out laughing, but it came close. Eight and Romana are so fantastic together. Things to love about them:

Eight begging Romana to come with him.
Eight calling Romana a genius, several times.
Witty banter!
Just everything good about the Doctor and Romana being in the same room together. The stuff that there even when Six and Romana are being awkward with each other and not knowing quite how to act. That stuff.

Also K-9 was fantastic. And the stupid bike thing. And one of the worst criminals in Gallifrey’s history turning into a forgetful Cambridge professor. Love.

I really liked Shada.