Asylum

[tencrush]

GAAAAH!! Wow, that was, quality-wise, so much better than that other radio thing, which, let's face it, was awful. I'm intrigued by the fact that so much actual canonical stuff is happening in a radio play, mostly the PC Andy thing, OMGYES!!! I'll bet they manage to retcon him in one of the next two, just so as not to confuse the televisual audience. I, for one, am totally FOR PC Andy knowing about aliens and the Rift, it's far, far more fun that way.

Anyway, nice to know Ianto's now taken over half of Owen's doctorly blood duties (is there actually anything Ianto can't do?), and is also the one actually Thinking Things Through, Coming Up With Solutions and, with Gwen, Calling Jack On His Shit. What does Jack DO, exactly? Apart, probably, from swashbucklingly rescuing people from fires with helicopters or something.

All in all, that was actually quite okay. Still not a great fan of the medium, but yeah, thumbs up. And Tom Price FTW, radiowise, he was FUCKING ace.

Comments

[jo02]

It WAS so much better than that other one, wasn't it?
Too much Gwen of course, but Andy kept her in her place which was good.
I think Ianto had about a dozen lines, but didn't he make every one of them count! AND come up with the solution, yay!

[radiant-pip.livejournal.com]

Lost Souls -a bike.
Asylum - a motorcycle.

Any guesses on what mode of transportation Ianto will try out in the next radio play?

As for my review, not enough Ianto. But at least he showed off his mad skillz (doctor and thinking!).

It seems we have another "Dr." Jones in da house...er, Hub.

[jo02]

*grins* Yeah I did notice the trend with Ianto and the bikes - maybe it'll be a unicycle for today's episode!
I've managed to be unspoiled for the plots for these radio plays, so I have no idea what to expect next, but one of my friends just told me that the third one will be Ianto-centric so I'm hoping the spread of characters is balanced out.
We didn't see much of Jack either here, but I thought it was probably a good thing if he was going to be portrayed as so stupid as to wave the alien tech around and play with the buttons while Ianto was driving down the road - and then doing an Owen by leaving the keys in the bike so it could get stolen by future-chav-girl.

[diggybear.livejournal.com]

We didn't see much of Jack either here, but I thought it was probably a good thing if he was going to be portrayed as so stupid as to wave the alien tech around and play with the buttons while Ianto was driving down the road

I was wondering why he was being so careless with alien tech.