The Lincolnshire Poacher

I had a lot of fun with The Lincolnshire Poacher. Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle are able to craft a really interesting script out of the real life number station phenomenon. It was really well done in that regard and Ianto proved to be fun in carrying the story.

Where it loses me a bit is in the performance between him and Greg. David Stewart-Parker was fun enough as this grizzled old veteran of Torchwood trapped in this terrible situation, but "grizzled old man" feels like something Big Finish goes back to a little too regularly for my tastes. So that all felt a little played out to me. Even as things really got tilted against Ianto, it really didn't feel like much of a meaningful sense of stakes - it was just so clear he was inevitably going to escape this situation. These things aren't enough of a trend to have prevented me from enjoying this audio, but they are things that effects stories all over Big Finish's history and it is starting to bother me a bit.

Still, this was good, and deserves a breezy recommendation. It's a fun story and the sort of stuff the original Torchwood TV show could have drawn on more for their stories.

I'm surprised this scores so lowly. It seems like people on GoodReads didn't like it because it was a little confusing. Well, if you like heady, intelligent stories with intrigue and suspense, this is a story that will grip you.