OCAS: Pilot

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OCAS: Pilot - Available now!

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OCAS: Pilot
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I think that this should be in General / off topic since it is not a Doctor Who release. What do others think?

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Whatever works best really! Not sure if many others are gonna pick it up but seeing as its BF I wanted to give it a shot.

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I moved it to General / off topic because we put all other franchises there. Hope that it is good!

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Thanks! I’ll make note for future reference too, thanks :slight_smile:

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Just listened to this one! I enjoyed it, but I think it was a bit simplistic.

I’m interested in how they’ll develop the idea of OCAS itself. By personifying excessive capitalist accumulation as a disease, the writers externalise it; reduce it to something that exists within individuals rather than what it is in real life: a systematic problem. That in itself I’m not a fan of.

I hope they make more of these, though! Love to see Big Finish explore more genres and make more original content. It would be fantastic if they became a leading company in UK radio drama outside of just science fiction – especially as BBC radio drama production just keeps being slashed :frowning: .

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Finished the story, will do the Behind the scenes after, but here some stray thoughts:

I liked it, I’m certainly intrigued to see where they’re going, but it’s very short and very much setup, so I can’t really say much about it besides that. But the fact that it gripped me I think is enough to count it as a successful pilot.

I’d like to comment on the topics that are spoken about, but I don’t know where they’re going with it, and it’s mostly been surface level mentions so far, so there’s not a lot for me to go off.

Loved the music! Incredibly good. Gets a point extra for le banger tunes.

Uhh I like the ‘framing device’ (can’t think of a better term) of this being the uncut recordings of people making a documentary, I think that’s cool, but it also cuts around which kinda messes with that, so I’m not sure they even know what the framing is supposed to be, but it’s fine I didn’t mind.

Yeah, dunno, I’m intrigued, just wished it was a bit longer. They’ve mentioned at the end the interesting part of all this, and the rest of the release feels very prologue-y, so I hope it gets to continue.

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Sorry but this was bad. The whole thing feels like a student play, I was waiting for some satire - just laying out the current way capitalism works as an historic epoch seen from 20 years hence is not satire!

I would say the basic idea is silly & feels out of touch but I have no idea what the basic idea is. It’s all so flat & hard to see where on earth this will go. It’s just people explaining what happened with little dramatic impact, just a ‘history’ lesson. All exposition with no real characters so no one to care about. It’s all delivered in such a dry factual way. No emotional connection to events. 2 dimensional individuals & feels unsure of what its focus is.

There is no plot here. No incentive to explore this further if it continues. No twist or dramatic hook. When it ended I thought, that’s it? Basically it commits the ultimate sin of any piece of fiction, it’s boring. I don’t know what story they’re talking about in the extras but it certainly isn’t what I’d just listened to.

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I’d be interested to see how it’s been received elsewhere. It sounded interesting but your review suggests it is anything but.

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