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Sherlock Holmes reread: The Beryl Coronet
Nov. 18th, 2024 04:26 pmOn to another one that I can barely remember, and this discussion is going to be full of spoilers, so let's go into a big ( spoiler cut ... )
Nov. 18th, 2024
Continuing on with these, and it's another other trip away from the Collection, with Benny requested to retrieve an archaeological artefact for one group of aliens from another set of aliens. And quickly finds herself involved in strange goings on. Albeit with an unexpected hanger on ...
This story is a prequel to the Big Finish Doctor Who (Colin Baker's Sixth Doctor) story The Sandman. Which I haven't heard yet, but was ok about. Since this time I'm dealing with a prequel not a sequel, I'm not missing out on masses of back story.
Where I did struggle was visualising the aliens. The cover image helps. And voices of non human characters are clearly differentiated, and comprehensible. But I wanted to "see" more, if that makes sense?
Benny has a quasi companion in this, a human space gypsy type character, who rather amusingly is acted by Benny actress Lisa Bowerman's brother Robin. Their voices do sound quite similar at times! He was an interesting character, and does return (or previously had appeared, depending on which chronology you are looking at) in The Sandman story.
It's another story where Benny's status as a mother is important, because in this one a young alien creature latches on to her, with devastating consequences. Here things got harder to follow, with often very incomprehensible audio. This section also felt overly stretched. The whole audio was over 70 minutes long and I think could have been edited down more effectively to 60 minutes.
The ending is a mixed bag, not entirely happy. But it does end with a rather nice scene in a bar. With drinks.
So yes, an ok one. Some good points. But not stellar.
This story is a prequel to the Big Finish Doctor Who (Colin Baker's Sixth Doctor) story The Sandman. Which I haven't heard yet, but was ok about. Since this time I'm dealing with a prequel not a sequel, I'm not missing out on masses of back story.
Where I did struggle was visualising the aliens. The cover image helps. And voices of non human characters are clearly differentiated, and comprehensible. But I wanted to "see" more, if that makes sense?
Benny has a quasi companion in this, a human space gypsy type character, who rather amusingly is acted by Benny actress Lisa Bowerman's brother Robin. Their voices do sound quite similar at times! He was an interesting character, and does return (or previously had appeared, depending on which chronology you are looking at) in The Sandman story.
It's another story where Benny's status as a mother is important, because in this one a young alien creature latches on to her, with devastating consequences. Here things got harder to follow, with often very incomprehensible audio. This section also felt overly stretched. The whole audio was over 70 minutes long and I think could have been edited down more effectively to 60 minutes.
The ending is a mixed bag, not entirely happy. But it does end with a rather nice scene in a bar. With drinks.
So yes, an ok one. Some good points. But not stellar.