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I have listened to Fortitude and Dissected.

Fortitude features Queen Victoria and had a lot to say about Empire and stolen treasure and treating other cultures badly and the roots of Torchwood.
I didn't really connect to it emotionally though. It's all new characters, really, none of the team. So I cared but.
I think it was quite good. Interesting people doing interesting things and complaining about British colonialism.

Dissected was more my speed. Gwen and Martha, and a case obviously, but mostly Gwen and Martha realising they are not in fact friends right now. Martha gives a reason she doesn't work for Torchwood, ( Read more... )

I liked both stories but as you can see from the sheer verbiage I like the characters emotional connections and character arc, the way the stories fit in and elaborate on canon gaps, so I didn't really get much out of the one as wasn't about main cast.

Fun to listen though.

That was not interesting.

Fanfic writers divide broadly into More Of and More From.
That to me was not More Of. That was someone wanting to write a different show with a different ethos.

And it's not a show I want to watch.