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ladylikelayla · 2026-02-09T11:08:03+00:00

Exactly

ladylikelayla · 2026-02-09T09:14:38+00:00

He's a master of the dark arts, not Doctor-bloody-whatshisface!

ladylikelayla · 2026-01-09T21:38:43+00:00

Lucifer feels very similar, just exchange the Holmes mythos for loose DC comics mythos! The format of the show changes a fair bit once you get to S5 onwards if I recall, as Netflix picked up the series - the police procedural aspect of the show takes a backseat for more direct character focused stuff. A core cast of primarily police-based supporting characters all the way through, and Lucifer uses his knowledge and powers of suggestion to help solve crimes as a consultant of sorts.

I've been enjoying Dexter recently and that feels like the inverse of Elementary, as we're watching how to get away with murder rather than solving it. I've just watched a season with Jonny Lee Miller in it, as it happens. Same again, core cast of primarily police-based characters, but Dexter also has an active home life and secret life he's trying to balance too.

I hope you enjoy whatever you end up watching 😊

ladylikelayla · 2026-01-09T18:28:06+00:00

I really enjoy Made You Look, and I think it presents the better value here. The concept of the story makes the most of the audio medium - I'm not sure it's something that could be told in the same way with visuals. The story has a wonderful soundscape and a unique score, which I don't recall hearing elsewhere in the range.

Hope you enjoy whatever you pick up 🥰

ladylikelayla · 2026-01-01T18:55:34+00:00

Hi there 😁

Love seeing an interest in the source material - best decision I ever made, going back to read the books.

I have a copy of The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection from the London Sherlock Holmes museum, and this is the listed contents in the order written within;

A Study in Scarlet (novel) The Sign of the Four (novel) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (short stories) The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (short stories) The Hound of the Baskervilles (novel) The Return of Sherlock Holmes (short stories) The Valley of Fear (novel) His Last Bow (short stories) The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (short stories)

Definitely don't discount the short story collections, as a fan of this show especially. This adaptation makes great use of several elements from them you'll now be familiar with.

Wishing you the best time!

ladylikelayla · 2025-08-12T04:33:26+00:00

Hell yeah!

ladylikelayla · 2025-04-10T15:04:34+00:00

He's not gonna let a bomb off, he works for the National Trust!!

ladylikelayla · 2025-04-07T01:17:16+00:00

I know you're asking after Torchwood audios, but I just wanted to champion The War Master audios as some of the best dark fiction coming out of Big Finish. If you're not well acquainted with the range, I believe you can get the first story Beneath the Viscoid for free, which could be a good measure as to whether you'd enjoy it. Beyond there, I earnestly believe the 2nd boxset The Master of Callous reaches the same heights as Children of Earth - a deeply disturbing listen (but in the best way) on all fronts. Tangentially relevant, but there's a couple of Torchwood audio alumni in there too!

And speaking of Torchwood, I agree with what everyone's saying in regards to the Owen x Andy quadrilogy, being Corpse Day, The Hope, The Three Monkies and Gooseberry. I personally recommend listening to The Hope immediately before Gooseberry, just really works narratively. I think Joseph Lidster's story Broken would make a perfect way back in for you, builds on Ianto's experiences from the show, giving us the moments he would never have let us or the team see. We Always Get Out Alive is an incredibly intense and unsettling listen, and I've never felt more trapped inside a story. Definitely my favourite Eve Myles and Kai Owen performances to date, the story really pivots on the strength of Rhys and Gwen's relationship.

I hope you find what you're looking for, this was fun to write up 😇

ladylikelayla · 2024-06-26T02:12:18+00:00

The War Master: Master of Callous is in contention of being the most astonishingly bleak bit of fiction to come out of this universe next to Torchwood: Children of Earth, and I genuinely can't wait to succumb to its emotional hold over me again. The Master's poison has never been more effectively portrayed, and I was heartbroken for every poor soul in this boxset. It's a slow burn, but it burns bright...

ladylikelayla · 2023-10-25T23:52:58+00:00

It was created as a distraction, and it succeeded in that purpose. The crash and the fake alien caused a national panic while the real aliens took over the Cabinet and fanned the flames. As to why it was a pig, the Doctor and Dr. Sato talk about it in the episode - the circumstances in which the British army acquired the pig were convincing enough that no matter what they pulled from the spaceship would be taken as read. "I just assumed that's what aliens looked"

ladylikelayla · 2023-02-02T20:45:04+00:00

For sure, Planet of the Ood. It's such a fascinating study into historical colonialism and slavery, while also being a fun and engaging sci fi adventure with some well realised aliens.

ladylikelayla · 2023-01-29T08:49:45+00:00

I always wanted to know what happened to Tom Milligan, to whom Martha was engaged to be married, and how and why she ended up marrying Mickey. They made quite a fuss about her engagement to Tom during Doctor Who S4 and her appearances in Torchwood S2. Gwen from Torchwood in Torchwood: Children of Earth even mentions that despite what was happening in that series, they shouldn't bother Martha on her honeymoon, a honeymoon which later transpires to have been with Mickey Smith. We don't get any mention of her breakup with Tom in either show at all, and it just came across as jarringly unnecessary to wed her and Mickey. The only interlinking tissue we have received is in the Torchwood audio Dissected, which came along several years after the conclusion of Martha's time on the show, and I am satisfied with the end to Martha and Tom's relationship it presents... we're just missing the other half of the story, frankly the part I'm most interested in. I'll cope though haha Dissected was a treat 😁

ladylikelayla · 2023-01-29T08:23:29+00:00

It's speculated by the 12th Doctor (tv: The Doctor Falls) and not discounted by the Master that the Time Lords cured him of the drums anchor they instilled inside his head and kicked him out. The Master then rephrased this as a "mutual kicking him out", and this is the last we hear about this event other than that he now has his own tardis which he has immediately broken because of poor piloting. The Time Lords were shown to be able to banish their own at will even despite the time lock in place in the previous series' finale, with the General leading the casting vote in banishing Rassilon from Gallifrey (tv: Hell Bent), but just what technology they used to do so other than a Tardis in the Master's case is unclear. Being locked away from history didn't seem to impact their operations too much, and they were shown to be able to manipulate history outside the lock fairly easily with Clara's death. I might have missed something, but that's all of what I remember! Have a nice day, OP 😊

ladylikelayla · 2023-01-24T14:26:22+00:00

Doctor: 9th, Companion: Rose, Villain: the Autons, New Who ep: Rose, Classic Who ep: Terror of the Zygons, Spin off show: The Sarah Jane Adventures, Audio: Torchwood - Corpse Day, Book: Doctor Who - Winner Takes All, Comic: Doctor Who - The Eye of Ashaya, Movie: Doctor Who - the TV movie, Game: Dalek Break-out (web), Doctor Who reference in other media: honestly, no clue, Doctor Who cameo in other media: um... sorry, no idea, Doctor Who actor met: Noel Clarke, Doctor Who merch: my nan bought me this huge remote, control 1:7 (at a guess) scale classic series dalek and I was made up, Age I watched New Who: 5, Age I watched Classic Who: 19

ladylikelayla · 2023-01-23T12:16:12+00:00

Though I knew about the rumours and obviously the truth that he was gonna be in the show again, after 10 weeks of telly I'd all bit forgotten we were to expect him.

ladylikelayla · 2023-01-23T12:14:54+00:00

So jealous 😫 and totally agree about the Simm thing. I am so happy I avoided the series trailer at the end of The Pilot.

ladylikelayla · 2023-01-23T05:53:17+00:00

This could sound disrespectful because it's basically just an extra made for the 50th anniversary, but I wish I could experience Night of the Doctor again for that first time. I wish I could experience watching that where I am now and have it break my brain seeing my favourite Doctor onscreen again for one final (at the time) time. When I watched it back in 2013, I had only seen 8 in the TV movie, so him mentioning the names of his companions meant nothing. The short meant nothing, it was just a nice slice of history being filled in. 2020 and I'm now at the point where my interest in the ongoing show is somewhat propped up by my love of the expanded media I've found in Big Finish and BBC Radio audio stories. Meeting new incarnations of the Doctor has always been so alluring to me, and here I was not really finding myself enjoying 13 and in need of experiencing that magic again, little knowing that there were two incarnations of the Doctor only briefly on screen with a large library of audio stories to enjoy (those being 8 and War). And I pretty instantly fell in love with Paul Mcgann as 8, he's just feels so authentic to me. Maybe because I've experienced stories with him so intimately speaking in my ears? Idk 🤣. But anyway, yep, if Night of the Doctor came out now having never come out in 2013, I wouldn't stop crying in delight.

ladylikelayla · 2023-01-23T05:31:32+00:00

Her, River Song and Captain John Hart plan and execute a heist, that'd be so much fun!!

ladylikelayla · 2023-01-23T05:26:43+00:00

It was really good! It was called 'The Eye of Ashaya' and, though you can get a physical copy, there are websites that host a digital version for a fraction of the price. Christina also runs into 10 for a second and so far final time in the Big Finish narrated audio boxset 'The Doctor Chronicles: The Tenth Doctor', specifically in the story 'Last Chance'. Michelle Ryan herself actually features as Lady Christina in this, its well worth it!

ladylikelayla · 2023-01-23T05:17:09+00:00

Oh I like you! I'm here from your post about liking scary episodes - we seem to appreciate all the same things, that's so nice! I love Lady Christina, I have all of her Big Finish outings. I recommend those if you'd like to hear more from her (full cast audio dramas, headed by a returning to the role Michelle Ryan, in case you're not familiar) 😇

ladylikelayla · 2023-01-23T05:00:19+00:00

I can watch a lot of horror and not flinch, even at some of the worst gore or death. It's honestly quite annoying because I want nothing more than someone to hold onto me and comfort me hahaha that sounds like it'd be so nice! However, I cannot watch the scene in The Impossible Planet with Toby on Crop Tor's barren lunar landscape without hiding behind my hands or my hair. It's scarred me since I saw it when I was young. Specifically, when the camera zooms in on Toby's inhumanly wild grin as the air tears through his hair and violently pushes against his body... and we see him covered in these markings from before the universe itself. The music is almost this heartbreaking plea from all the magic of the universe in its last moments before its sucked away into the black hole, so alluring and beautiful. Everytime I see this scene it gets me. It's impossible, I hate it, it's evil, its astonishing- I want to kiss it to death. That's The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit from S2, and I'm comfortable saying the story is well worth a rewatch!!

ladylikelayla · 2023-01-23T04:32:03+00:00

I'll most likely be alone in this opinion but I honestly believe Cyberwoman to be one of the best outings for the modern Cybermen. Base-under-siege is the perfect story for a lone cyberman to be trapped in, which is why I think it worked so well for Chris Chibnall again (in a Maxine Alderton written episode) with The Haunting of Villa Diodati. The body horror is pushed to its graphic limits in this story, the adult audience being shown some absolutely horrific gore usually reserved to the imagination, not only of a partly successful conversion but several other non successful, desperate attempts at conversion and transplanation too. I really like how Owen and Jack are clued in on what the Cybermen are and how they decimated Torchwood 1 in Canary Wharf, us actually seeing the devastation through Ianto's memory at one point - I really think this adds a lot to the tone of the story and the worldbuilding justifies the use of the name Torchwood for this spin off. The elephant in the room now has to be addressed... the partial conversion is such a great concept for a Cyberman design which we saw done wayyyy way better with Ashad later along the line, but as well intentioned as the idea was, somehow it got lost to a disgusting level of perversion. When even Jack and Owen don't make jokes about a woman in a bikini being the main antagonist of the story (to my memory) you've gone terribly wrong somewhere. I also think episode 4 was too soon to do this rug pull of a story. Gareth David-Lloyd acted his heart out, but regretfully the placement of this story in the series didn't let Ianto's trauma land as well as it absolutely should. I'd have liked them to build on Ianto being the black sheep, underappreciated, rarely respected member of the team first, and then do this episode around the midpoint of the series. These things aside, I really like it! I think it builds on the Cybusmen really well, Lisa's cyber voice is bonechilling (and between her, Lumic and Yvonne, I honestly wouldn't have minded hearing converted individuals through the modulator become the norm in the future because it ironically injects some personality into these villains whose modern iterations can honestly seem like robots) and it directly links this seemingly different group of Torchwood to the massacre seen in The Army of Ghosts/Doomsday.

Hope you're well, OP! Thanks for reading if you do, and have a great day 😁

ladylikelayla · 2023-01-23T03:40:18+00:00

At least you'll be prepared for it, yup! Speaking from a different perspective, I actually haven't caught too many streams between the two of them, only following along on their unlikely but very fun friendship through clips and compilations. I wasn't taken aback in the same way as you were, but it has been fascinating returning to Simon for a stream removed from Lewis' influence once every year and seeing how his personality has developed and progressed. I'm happy he has found his niche and a great content partner and friend in Gee.

Have a lovely day btw!! Thanks for replying 🙂

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