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9 January 2025
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This felt like a big step in the right direction after I struggled a bit with The Inquiry. A Blind Eye is the least Gallifreyan Gallifrey story yet, but I didn't hate our visit to Earth here and quite enjoyed the story with Arkadian. The train setting was entertaining and India Fisher playing Charlotte Pollard's sister Sissy. I really like how much she has fallen and the depiction of her as a Nazi sympathizer. It is given an appropriate level of horror while also showing pretty clearly how somebody can get caught in the allure of fascism.
I saw where they were going with Leela's husband a mile away, but it was still a pretty satisfying resolution of sorts to that content. Pretty good pay-off for what Leela has been going through for this audio set. I like that she didn't just forgive or excuse Andred's behaviour here. That was interesting and I'm quite invested in Leela's character at this point. I can't quite say the same for Romana but she was at least entertaining here and Lalla Ward is always a reliable performer.
I'd probably rate this higher but I do have to say it ends on Sissy's suicide and there's a big flaw here. Now, I think that moment was earned and sufficiently built up to. The whole audio kind of was leading up and depending on it as a moment, and from a writing perspective, I do think they pull it off. Only for Big Finish to use the silliest, almost cartoony stock sound effect for a gun shot. I'm probably being snooty here or something but it feels like instead of a deeply punctuating moment morosely sending off one of our main characters in the bleakest way possible, it might as well had been a fart.
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