Shutting my eyes and just letting my mind conjure scenes is one of my favourite past-times when listening to BigFinish audios - I’m sure many of you do the same to help visualise the story.
What audio adventures do you find conjure the most stunning visuals?
I’d say ‘The Unknown’ is pretty high up there in my book - the trippy imagery makes me think of a TARDIS themes Salvador Dali painting, as reality melts and restructures around River and Seven.
‘Nightjar’ conjured up some stunning imagery for me also. The dangerous area of space the eponymous ship flies through, described as all these hazy colours and it just sounds glorious!
But I given that I’d read the novel before listening to the adaptation, Love and War was absolutely stunning visually. It’s such a vivid experience, and for such a good story.
This is just the tip of the pile though! I love how colourful and imaginative Doctor Who can be on audio and prose…
Obviously, The Chimes of Midnight’s incredible atmosphere, score, script and sound design produce such an evocative and surreal setting that it’s incredibly easy to imagine the nightmarish paradoxical servants’ quarters.
Absolution - a highly underrated story I will never not sing praises for - boasts an absolutely incredible menagerie of bizarre and Boschian visuals, literally taking place in hell with gods make of smoke and the time rotor filling with blood building it’s landscapes.
And finally, the melancholy ruined world of Broken Hearts is one of the primary reasons why the story lands so well and the environment literally plays a crucial role in the narrative.
‘Legend of the Cybermen’ makes me imagine Land of Fiction, which is imo one of the most creative places of the ‘Doctor Who’ universe
The process of listening to ‘The Red Lady’ implies that the listener imagines paintwork themselves, and thinking how it slowly changes is creepy and disturbing
Venice of ‘Stones of Venice’ feels very rich (also I just want to visit Venice someday lol)
‘The Stones of Venice’ is a real visual treat. I know some people complain that it seems more like a historical story with all the cultists and the general characters… but I don’t care.
It oozes atmosphere - from scenes of Orsino’s lavish ball, to the Doctor and Charley taking a gondola ride through Venice during the early evening. Just beautiful!
Would it be cheating to say Scherzo? I know the vast majority of it is white nothingness, but I can vividly imagine the glass tube and even Charley’s home at the end.
Seconding this! Caerdroia is incredibly visually distinctive.
