tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post904874353584489122..comments2024-03-14T05:07:57.110-07:00Comments on Doc Oho Reviews...: The Unwinding World written by Ian Potter and directed by Lisa BowermanDoc Ohohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01819922630249965949noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5386390949828958591.post-13472553913537858932015-06-12T16:25:00.176-07:002015-06-12T16:25:00.176-07:00I really! liked this one, as a satyr of the way th...I really! liked this one, as a satyr of the way that our own culture is controled by the system and the way that people really do in reality do a good amount of what the food aditives and thought control do here. <br />Maureen O'Brien is lovely, particularly with her turning the tables on the system, and I absolutely adored the sound design of the tinkly easy listening piano that backgrounds her interview changing gradually over time and becoming more and more disorganized as time went on. <br /><br />Sinse our own world isn't so different in the way that systems so often crush individuals and the very burocratic apparatus we have in place to help so often is used to hinder, the moment when Vicky told system that the Doctor had been trying to extracate his Tardis from the buro but had given up actually made me tear up slightly, it's like seeing the Doctor defeated by the worst dehumanization of our own society especially when System rubs it in with the "Old people often get confused comment" <br /><br />Of course, we learn later the Doctor was doing far more than just tracking the progress of his various appeals and that the system is trying to minimize the eldily for a reason. <br /><br />I find the question mark over the story interesting, particularly with how the Doctor's eldily conspirator ends with "We sorted those machines like those Kenosians" very ambiguous stuff but definitely welcome, particularly sinse oppressive society stories are often always one sided. <br /><br />The only point that I felt a little off over was that it felt somewhat jarring to me that the system was being used to supposedly improve humanity by removing tendencies to judge what is outside preconceptions, yet in reality it's those very preconceptions, the belief that people who look or speak or seem to be different are worth less that is very part of "the system" we have (if you don't believe me just consider how disabled people get treated by councils, companies and parts of our own system). <br /><br />This felt a little backwards to me, and while of course this is Doctor Who on an alien planet not the one we live on, in something which felt a little too satyrical in places it seemed a rather odd reversal of trends, just as if it had been revealed that the Inner party in 1984 were actually all rabbid individualists at heart. <br /><br />Still a great story that made me think which is always good, and one with some fantastic narrative tricks and devices that felt far more like a full cast radio play than most of the Companion chronicles do despite basically only having two performers.<br /><br />I was also really amused at the evil library crushing shelf stacks. It's been a comment my friends and I have made ever sinse we first saw the university library which has stacks of shelves that can be moved together that they'd make a great trap device in an Indiana Jones type of wall crush escape, so it was great that a story actually did it.darkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15526681809763999806noreply@blogger.com