#fields of terror

Me: Wow, that feels the kind of thing that usually happens to Steven instead, he dodged a bullet this time-

Steven: *is also being taken to get shot because he tried to protect her*

*Old Review*

I loved that the characters were done so well that I was able to picture things so well. A good story should take you away into your mind and make you be able to go with the story with ease and get a feel for the characters in such a way that it allows you to see their movements without necessarily being told, and this definitely did that. I could see all of the Doctor’s movements, whether speaking or silent. I instinctively saw Vicki and Steven crouch behind the couch before it said they did. Serious props for managing to engage with my imagination so well that I was able to be so on top of it, because it’s happened plenty of times listening to audios (or just reading books tbh) where my brain can’t quite grasp what I’m meant to be seeing and it’s a struggle to flesh out the landscape and the movements. Didn’t have that problem at all here.

I also really appreciated the dedication to the horror-film feeling they were going for. They lead you to believe that this isn’t a straight historical, that there’s some monster lurking, and great lengths are taken to convince you of it... and then you learn it’s a person, and you go back in your head to review everything that came before and you realize that every single one of those awful noises and frights were specifically human, but handled in such a way that you completely believe in the monster and wouldn’t recognize it as human unless you were already aware. It’s unsettling in the best kind of way. And it just drives the point home even more; an ordinary man is this scary. But he was also a poor man who was driven mad and is acting in severe grief at what had been done in the tyrrany. The monster is only human, and the other humans who made him such are the monsters. My kind of poetry, I’ll fall for it every time, and this is a particularly well-done instance of it.