#Stones of Venice

[soupforsoup]

When my friend tells me what game we're playing tonight

[idontevenknow7878]

okay ima share my doctor who audio drama opinions

minuet in hell is really good & doesn’t deserve the hate

chimes of midnight is really good (and it made me SOB)

sword of orion should be talked about more

stones of venice is underrated

that’s all cuz i can’t think of anything else

[rjalker]

"why do you say 'solidarity or drown' where did that come from?"

a Doctor Who audio drama set in the future, where the city of Venice is finally sinking beneath the waves, and has been for generations and for generations.

The poor people of the city have also been slowly mutating for generations to form gills and flippers and other aquatic adaptations, because nothing can stop the city from sinking, but they don't have to die. The city doesn't want them to die. They're the only one who care about it.

But the rich people? Who do nothing but celebrate the city's demise? Who abuse and oppress the poor? Who have spent their whole lives causing others nothing but misery and pain?

They are going to drown.

[rachelbethhines]

60 Years of Doctor Who Anniversary Marathon - McGann 7th Review

The Stones of Venice - Full Audio

We got another Charley and the Doctor adventure.

This one is very mid. Not bad, but not anything amazing either.

The Doctor takes Charley to visit Venice into the far future, before it's destined to sink in the ground. Only to find the city over run with party goers who seem to have a death wish. There's also mutant fish people who are planing a revolution, a cult trying to revive a dead woman, and everyone is talking about a curse on the grand duke who rules the city.

Let me go ahead and get my biggest complaint out of the way.

The story, despite being set in the future does not feel every much like the future. Outside of the mutant fish people who now work as gondoliers, the story could easily have been set in the past.

Why on earth would future Italy have Dukes and Queens with any real political power?

Why hasn't the mode of transportation changed in hundreds of years?

Why are they still relying on boats to evacuate people and art and not helicopters or trans-mats?

Why is the city cut off from the influence of the rest of the world?

Why doesn't the Italian or World government step in to over see the disaster?

Why isn't there scientific inventions to help prevent the lost of historic buildings at least?

Why aren't the people that are still left in the city not partying on boats or barges, or keeping boats nearby?

Why would people in the 23rd century still believe in magic but not aliens?

It doesn't make any sense from a world building perspective. The story is certainly atmospheric, but it sacrifices logic to wax poetic about the nature of life and death and power of love ect. ect. ect.

Now for some positives... The acting is good. Paul McGann is on form as always. The plot maybe nonsensical but the characters are at least intriguing. Lost of nice atmosphere, music, and dialogue.

So basically it's your average Doctor Who fair, though it leans more fantasy than sci-fi as tends to be the trend with Eighth Doctor stories I'm finding.

[phunnyphis]

just finished the stones of venice

[stylestream]

Emma Stone | Atelier Versace Fall 2016 Couture dress • Jimmy Choo sandals | Venice Film Festival | 2016

[mylifeincinema]

As if I could be any more excited…

Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things just won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

[ohmerricat]

listening to minuet in hell. you guys weren’t lying when you said the audios were edgy. blimey what were they on in the wilderness years… charley keeps getting sexually harassed ???? there are mentions of orgies? lobotomies? devil worship? atrocious american accents? appreciate the antipsych message at hand but i’m not quite sure what time period this is supposed to be set in, why the brigadier is even there or, truth be told, what actually is going on. at all. which is fitting considering neither of the protagonists know who where or why they are (the usual) . sitting here meanwhile making earrings. The Horrors

[peppermint-jade]

been listening to some big finish lately

the Ninth Doctor adventures have been so good so far. Planet of the End is a personal favorite of mine. I will die for Fred actually.

I also started 8's main range, and I love Charley. I hope nothing bad happens to her (:

Closeups of the 9 comic under the cut:

[starxcxboy]

— Poor Things (2023), directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, based on the novel by Alasdair Gray.

[eleanor-of-fuquitaine]

Katharine Hepburn laying in an absolutely normal way

Kate's glorious inability to sit properly has been well documented on this site. Turns out, she couldn't lie down like a human either...

[rjalker]

Maybe:

Metropolis [handshake] Venice

? at this point I will accept no other answer.

[crystalromana]

In Storm Warning, Charley is introduced with the words ‘Diary of an Edwardian Adventuress’, and in this adventure she remains true to form.  More than any previous companion, more so even than Romana, Charley’s role is that of a female equivalent to the Doctor - nosy, determined, forever intrigued and by turns exasperated and amused by those around her, she takes a blithe stroll through the tale of the death of Venice until even the Doctor is infuriated by her. Although the third release, The Stones of Venice was the first of the eighth Doctor adventures recorded, and so marked something of a crucial piece of work for India Fisher and Paul McGann, as Charley and the Doctor respectively.  It is no exaggeration to say that Stones... is also Fisher’s best performance in the role, giving Charley a blustering youthful vitality that makes her character more of a player in this than any other adventure. Of course, it is the script which makes this possible.  It is Magrs’s decision to separate Doctor and companion ten minutes into the first episode that makes Charley such a powerful presence - far from the traditional companion’s role of dumb inquiry, capture, helplessness and acquiescence to the Doctor’s commands, Charley takes things into her own hands, and even tricks the Doctor by pretending to be hypnotised, doing things her own way as and when it occurs to her to do so.

-The Stones of Venice PhoenixCourt.org

[heystella]

Poor Things (2023)

[doctorwhogirlie]

Reblog/Like if The Stones of Venice is your favourite Big Finish story

[stylestream]

Emma Stone | Atelier Versace Fall 2016 Couture dress | Venice Film Festival | 2016