Our Patreon supporter Simon recommended we make another Appointment with Fear for an episode entitled, “The Clock Strikes Eight”! Thanks, Simon! John Dickson Carr’s corpulent detective, Gideon Fell, is summoned to meet a woman about to be executed for murder. But this woman has lost all her memories, starting with the victim’s death! Can Fell uncover the truth before the fatal hour arrives? What caused this woman to lose her memories? Would you like to go on a vacation with Gideon Fell? Listen for yourself and find out! Then vote and let us know what you think!
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I love John Dickson Carr, and I love Dr. Gideon Fell. And after excoriating Eric for his reaction to last week’s episode, I’m going to side with him and against Joshua on this one, because the lead actor’s performance in this was terrible. Yes, from his voice, I could believe that the character was immensely fat (although I don’t know if someone unfamiliar with Fell would necessarily have thought that from the performance, or if I’m just projecting that onto it from my own knowledge of the character), but beyond that, there was no hint of the character that is… Read more »
All fair points and a good reminder to better contextualize my arguments. I will stick to my praise of the lead’s performance though. The faults you found with it are what I liked about it. As you mentioned, this is a slight story so there is not much time to fill in the idiosyncratic nooks and crannies of Fell’s character so a broader performance makes sense to me. As you say, the tone, pitch, intensity, etc. of a voice cannot specifically convey a love of beer, but it can convey more generic traits such as physical size and temperment and,… Read more »