It’s time to listen to and discuss …ish
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One of the first Big Finish stories to really take advantage of being an audio play. The end is a bit silly, and the pacing is a bit slow at times, but a really great play. It’s actually a shame that Scherzo exists, in a way, because …ish gets unfavorably compared to it, and it’s not a fair comparison.
…ish is one of those stories that, above all else, fascinates.
It’s an absolutely brilliant series of ideas moulded into the shape of a story and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t.
I think it runs out of steam by the end of Part 2, but it’s still wildly creative and endlessly fun throughout.
8/10
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Oh yay this is a fun one! I can’t remember details but I do know I liked this one because it’s interesting
I remember hating this so it’s probably due another go as I haven’t listened to it since.
Actually, I gave this one a relisten and I think I liked it less than I remembered. I really liked the way they play with language, and Colin sounds like he’s having a great time, but the way the story supposes that English is the most superior language of all time leaves a bit of a sour taste in my mouth. Nevertheless, I like a lot of the ideas in this, and a living language story on audio is always fun
I really love this one. It’s just really delightful in a way that’s hard to define. I love the wordplay and how much this one relishes in its dialogue. Every line sparkles and really shines.
Thanks Big Finish. I love language. Language is cool. And I like how this story takes language to silly extremes, inverting the idea of it and its origins. Oh wait. Did I say language? I think I might’ve meant English instead. And considering how English is currently doing with taking over the world, this story might just become more and more relevant.
I hope I’ve remembered all the English terms Book used. Might be useful for my English exams…
Gotta be honest, English doesn’t sound like a real word anymore.
Wait a minute… English… English… English…
It’s happening again! Nooooooooish
(I got banished to another realm or something)
I find this one really boring. Feel like it brings out the worst of 6 and Perri gets to little interesting to do. 1.5/5
This one was pretty good .…ish, I think the writing is extremely clever but perhaps a little too clever for its own good because while it really impresses with the use of language, I found the plot to be a little lacking.
3.5/5
Part Two and I’m quite liking the development of Book. Peri is written with actual intelligence and the Doctor is written to play to Baker’s strengths. A good cliffhanger too - definitely better than my memory, but not scaling the heights.
Finished the story last night. It is a promising start in Part One but the story really feels like it treads water across Parts 2 and 3 and a chunk of 4 before there is some fiddling around with hologlyph parameters and everything is okay again.
I like how intelligently Peri is written and the supporting cast are good but there’s a lot of telling us what is happening and not a lot of things actually happening. There were also a few bits where I lost track of who was doing what including how Ossifer came back to life suddenly which initially I thought was a flashback (like earlier in the story). As @shauny says above, a story which is probably trying to be too clever for its own good and forgets to include the plot side of things. It feels like the content of a short story stretched over 4 episodes.
I remember enjoying this story a lot. I appreciated how it played upon a “quirk” specific to Six with his love of language, but I agree with others that the plot was somewhere between decent to good; could be better, but also acceptable as is. I can’t recall the specifics, but I remember towards the middle of this audio it started to drag a bit and get confusing, sort of what @deltaandthebannermen said above. I still gave it four stars, though, because the concept itself isn’t an easy one to execute.
In hindsight (and if I had to choose between either to listen to right now), I prefer The Rani Elite’s take on an academic setting more than Ish.
