rj_anderson | *sob* *sob* *sob* (Reply)

I've just finished listening to Scherzo, the latest Big Finish Doctor Who audio drama featuring the Eighth Doctor and his companion Charlotte "Charley" Pollard, and I'm utterly overwhelmed. For all that the story pretends to be about alternate universes and the science of sound and evolution and whatnot, it's basically just a humongous frocky excuse to have the two characters alone together in an intimate and emotionally charged situation, so naturally I ate it up with a spoon and ended up teary-eyed by the end.

It doesn't help that Paul McGann has such a beautiful speaking voice, either. And he delivers his lines with such passion... *blows nose loudly*

Yes, I know I am an utter sap. Now excuse me while I go listen to the end of Episode Three again -- I never, ever thought I would hear the Doctor say that. And especially not mean that by it...

By the way,

avarill, I think the Ninth Doctor's angst in Scream of the Shalka suddenly makes a great deal more sense in the light of this Big Finish episode. In fact I can't help but wonder if Paul Cornell had the script for Scherzo in hand when he wrote Shalka. But if so, that can only mean --

Wah!

Ahem. I apologize to the universe at large for this fit of incoherence.