Monday 3 September 2018

Life Experience review [Jenny Colgan]

After signing up for work experience at Sevelin LaboratoriesTanya and Ram find themselves thrust into the world of medical research. But dark secrets lie at the heart of Sevelin Industries – and not everyone can make it out alive...

When?: 2016.

The Doctor's Case:
  • Ram's fine, I guess.
The Valeyard's Case:
  • The guest characters have nothing to them, being uninteresting scientists and authority figures. Yawn. I've seen a lot of praise for Marty
  • It's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's a curious choice to have Ram appear as part of a duo twice in a row in Class's first volume.
Honours Roll: Marta killed Boris using a pathogen. She's later killed by the specimen. I kind of phased out during a lot of this story and didn't note any others.

This Reminds Me...:
  • Lu Corfield played Brongwyn in Aliens & Sex & Chips & Gravy; Scott Haran played Malfi Pryn in The Year After I Died and Liz Sutherland-Lim played Alison Speer in Winter for the Adept, Farroll in Wirrn Dawn and Ling in Sympathy for the Devil.
The Inquisitor's Judgement: Before Big Finish got their hands on Class, the only character I couldn't rant about was Matteusz because he was far too likeable and in the background. Conversely, Tanya was probably the one that I disliked the most, finding her unpleasant in her talk about "the whites" and irritating in general. Rather than going for a character-driven story like the other two stories in Volume 1, Colgan gives us a monster-escapes-lab tale that we've seen and heard a hundred times before. It's dreadfully boring and I have little else to say. It earns itself an E.

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