Night Thoughts on my first listen to it wasn’t a great story. However on a second listen I found it to be a simply brilliant story. It is dark and quite frankly disturbing, especially if you listen to it in the dark before going to sleep (like me). This is the first story to be written by Edward Young and according to Wikipedia this story was originally to have formed part of the 27th season back in 1990 however obviously with the cancellation in 1989 this name came to light.
The setting of this story seems to be some bizarre forest with a house in the middle of it. There are several elements such as Sue who is very creepy and a stuffed toy called Happy that really did get me spooked. Lizzie Hopley was the woman behind Sue and did a great job and thankfully didn’t go OTT with it which is where it could have gone. Bernard Kay is a familiar name to Doctor Who as he appeared in several TV stories between 1964 and 1971. I liked him as Major Dickens and thought that the character was acted out just right.
This is Hex’s second brilliant story in a row. Live 34 was just a brilliant story for him as his part of the story suited his character whereas with this story it was just that he was given some great dialogue and some wonderful scenes. Philip Olivier has really grown with the character of Hex and whilst I don’t think he’s Big Finish’s best companion I have to say that with a few more stories like this then he will be up there. Sophie Aldred and Sylvester McCoy are old pro’s at these Doctor Who stories and they took to this like a duck to water. I think that the relationship with Ace and Hex is starting to become more obvious and this will add a whole new dimension to the TARDIS relationship (see what I did there!).
Well worth a listen to anyone who likes to be spooked.
The setting of this story seems to be some bizarre forest with a house in the middle of it. There are several elements such as Sue who is very creepy and a stuffed toy called Happy that really did get me spooked. Lizzie Hopley was the woman behind Sue and did a great job and thankfully didn’t go OTT with it which is where it could have gone. Bernard Kay is a familiar name to Doctor Who as he appeared in several TV stories between 1964 and 1971. I liked him as Major Dickens and thought that the character was acted out just right.
This is Hex’s second brilliant story in a row. Live 34 was just a brilliant story for him as his part of the story suited his character whereas with this story it was just that he was given some great dialogue and some wonderful scenes. Philip Olivier has really grown with the character of Hex and whilst I don’t think he’s Big Finish’s best companion I have to say that with a few more stories like this then he will be up there. Sophie Aldred and Sylvester McCoy are old pro’s at these Doctor Who stories and they took to this like a duck to water. I think that the relationship with Ace and Hex is starting to become more obvious and this will add a whole new dimension to the TARDIS relationship (see what I did there!).
Well worth a listen to anyone who likes to be spooked.
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