Wasn’t as good as The Gathering as there was no Tegan.
It was still quite good though. Even without Tegan. And I think I listened to these backwards as I listened to the Gathering months ago and had a hard time finding a copy of the Reaping. So I spent a good portion of the audio waiting for the horrible thing to happen to Nat and for Kathy to go evil.
Also at the beginning I suddenly got the Six/Peri stuff and my mind hurt. Quite a bit and that’s all I will say on it.
Although they do have a rather fantastic friendship yes? They argue and insult each other but there is such a nice bit of underlying love for each other that it’s all of the good.
On to the story. I rather liked this as it was a way of showing why Peri never goes back home on the show. By the end of the story she doesn’t have a home to go to. And that is sad. But at the same time makes her never going home understandable because old Who never really thought of these things. And her pain at her mom’s death and the Doctor coming back for her. It was all very sad. I did really like the decision to have Peri decide to stay with her family. It was the only thing that was going to make sense by the end. And the way that Six was utterly shocked by it was fun. He really didn’t think that she would ever leave him. Especially like that.
And then he went to go see what happened to her and came running back. That was the part that almost made me cry. He went back and gave her a hug and let her cry on him and then took her off into the TARDIS again. Cause he’s her best friend.
I just have this sudden love for the Six and Peri dynamic. It’s kinda weird.
And the Cybermen story made very little sense, overall. It was way too convoluted and not with the making of sense. It almost felt tacked on at the end. Like the writer went, oh shit I only have twenty minutes to resolve this *throws stuff together* ‘eh it’s good enough. I think if the Cybermen part had been a bit better done it would have been a very good story. I still liked it, but more as a character study then as a story.
Also ear disk things=ear pods y/y? Rusty do you have any original ideas? At all?
