The third release from Big Finish sees the Sixth Doctor finally get his own adventure. This story sees the Sixth Doctor and Peri travel sometime after Revelation of the Daleks. This was at a the time in their relationship when they were still a bickering couple. This wasn’t a particularly golden period in Doctor Who history and unfortunately this story was perhaps too early in Big Finish’s time.
First of all the idea of using sound as an enemy is quite original and has potential. The story of a politician who was murdered is then re-born as sound. However I sound found myself looking at the track number and seeing how much was left because beside Baker and Bryant’s acting there is very little to enjoy from this release.
The story isn’t a total washout. There are some interesting characters in this story such as Beth Pernell (played by Lisa Bowerman). I think maybe more of the fact that it is Bowerman’s acting than the character she plays. Bowerman can always be relied to put in a enthusiastic performance and she doesn’t let the side down in this story. Colin Baker puts in a good performance just like he did in The Sirens of Time. This being Nicola Bryant’s first performance she does a good job. She doesn’t sound any different than she did back on TV.
Justin Richards sees to set up the stall for this story and then sits back and hopes the story carries it home whereas in reality what we are left with is a story that does nothing to help make people think differently of this pairing. I have always thought that Colin Baker was very good as the Doctor but was let down y the outfit and also the outfit. Hopefully future stories will help people revaluate their impression of the Doctor. Gary Russell seems to do the best of a bad situation and directs the actors very well and makes the story bearable.
As this is only the third release its too early to tell what future releases will be like. But future authors will need to look at what they need to do to avoid writing a lacklustre adventure. I hope that Justin Richards is allowed to write another story because I think that there were some elements in this story that have good points to it.
First of all the idea of using sound as an enemy is quite original and has potential. The story of a politician who was murdered is then re-born as sound. However I sound found myself looking at the track number and seeing how much was left because beside Baker and Bryant’s acting there is very little to enjoy from this release.
The story isn’t a total washout. There are some interesting characters in this story such as Beth Pernell (played by Lisa Bowerman). I think maybe more of the fact that it is Bowerman’s acting than the character she plays. Bowerman can always be relied to put in a enthusiastic performance and she doesn’t let the side down in this story. Colin Baker puts in a good performance just like he did in The Sirens of Time. This being Nicola Bryant’s first performance she does a good job. She doesn’t sound any different than she did back on TV.
Justin Richards sees to set up the stall for this story and then sits back and hopes the story carries it home whereas in reality what we are left with is a story that does nothing to help make people think differently of this pairing. I have always thought that Colin Baker was very good as the Doctor but was let down y the outfit and also the outfit. Hopefully future stories will help people revaluate their impression of the Doctor. Gary Russell seems to do the best of a bad situation and directs the actors very well and makes the story bearable.
As this is only the third release its too early to tell what future releases will be like. But future authors will need to look at what they need to do to avoid writing a lacklustre adventure. I hope that Justin Richards is allowed to write another story because I think that there were some elements in this story that have good points to it.
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