Um, given everyone's age, I don't see how that would work? Excuse my inner nitpicker, but "pedophile" refers strictly to people who sexually molest (or try to) prepubescent kids, and the way people in recent years have come to use it for just about any pairing involving someone younger than 18 (and sometimes older) has become an irritant to me. Not, I hasten to add, that I think what Mab was doing was remotely okay in any sense (supernatural or not).
(Mind you, one reason why I didn't like one of the most popular versions of this legend, Diana Wynne Jones' Fire and Hemlock, was that Polly, the heroine, meets Tom Lynn there when she's a little girl of ten and he's an adult man (frozen at the age when the queen of the fairies took him), and when she's 16 she realises she's always loved him, and the whole thing becomes a romance, which I found squicky. (Janet in the ballad is the same age as her true love whom she rescues.) I suppose the age difference between Laurel (in the novel) or Mab (in the Class Audio) or any version of the fairy queen and Tom/Tam Lin never squicked me because any version of the fairy queen is SO MUCH older than just about any human that it's a whole different Dimension.)
I do think with what we know of Tanya, her not wanting the others to get involved to prove herself and Matteusz seems in-character IMO.
Oh, I totally believe Tanya would. I have my doubts Matteusz would indulge her in this beyond a certain point, though; to be precise, I think when she wants to draw Peter out by the bully pretense, he's both smart and cautious enough to want back-up for the two of them. I mean, everyone else so far as ended up in a coma. But I suppose I can fanwank it; after all, Matteusz might want to prove he's more than Charlie's boyfriend, plus he doesn't want to betray Tanya's trust.
I was confused a bit when the Daleks were defeated, since I didn’t see the original serial and knowing what happened relies on knowledge of it?
Well, to be fair, the audio itself has Ace tell Quill repeatedly all the Daleks died, which Quill later reminds her of and evidentally has been counting on. Re: how they all die - it's been years and years since I watched it, but I think that when the loose Dalek returned to the 80s, he ended up in the battle between Imperial Daleks (his faction) and Renegade Daleks at Coal Hill (nearly all Daleks died there; the Doctor tricked the rest into inadvertendly blowing themselves up with what they thought was Gallifrey but was actually Skaro).
in both stories, the antagonists aren’t bad and are persuaded to stop what they’re doing
I really liked that, too, showing our heroes don't automatically go for the kill option but do try to reason with their opponents and to understand them first. And sometimes it works.
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I thought it was “Class tackles pedos"
Um, given everyone's age, I don't see how that would work? Excuse my inner nitpicker, but "pedophile" refers strictly to people who sexually molest (or try to) prepubescent kids, and the way people in recent years have come to use it for just about any pairing involving someone younger than 18 (and sometimes older) has become an irritant to me. Not, I hasten to add, that I think what Mab was doing was remotely okay in any sense (supernatural or not).
(Mind you, one reason why I didn't like one of the most popular versions of this legend, Diana Wynne Jones' Fire and Hemlock, was that Polly, the heroine, meets Tom Lynn there when she's a little girl of ten and he's an adult man (frozen at the age when the queen of the fairies took him), and when she's 16 she realises she's always loved him, and the whole thing becomes a romance, which I found squicky. (Janet in the ballad is the same age as her true love whom she rescues.) I suppose the age difference between Laurel (in the novel) or Mab (in the Class Audio) or any version of the fairy queen and Tom/Tam Lin never squicked me because any version of the fairy queen is SO MUCH older than just about any human that it's a whole different Dimension.)
I do think with what we know of Tanya, her not wanting the others to get involved to prove herself and Matteusz seems in-character IMO.
Oh, I totally believe Tanya would. I have my doubts Matteusz would indulge her in this beyond a certain point, though; to be precise, I think when she wants to draw Peter out by the bully pretense, he's both smart and cautious enough to want back-up for the two of them. I mean, everyone else so far as ended up in a coma. But I suppose I can fanwank it; after all, Matteusz might want to prove he's more than Charlie's boyfriend, plus he doesn't want to betray Tanya's trust.
I was confused a bit when the Daleks were defeated, since I didn’t see the original serial and knowing what happened relies on knowledge of it?
Well, to be fair, the audio itself has Ace tell Quill repeatedly all the Daleks died, which Quill later reminds her of and evidentally has been counting on. Re: how they all die - it's been years and years since I watched it, but I think that when the loose Dalek returned to the 80s, he ended up in the battle between Imperial Daleks (his faction) and Renegade Daleks at Coal Hill (nearly all Daleks died there; the Doctor tricked the rest into inadvertendly blowing themselves up with what they thought was Gallifrey but was actually Skaro).
in both stories, the antagonists aren’t bad and are persuaded to stop what they’re doing
I really liked that, too, showing our heroes don't automatically go for the kill option but do try to reason with their opponents and to understand them first. And sometimes it works.