Medicinal Purposes is a story that I loved from start to finish. This story was one of the first that I listened to when I first started bying Big Finish releases. This story is the first to be written by Robert Ross and he has put together a superb adventure.
The characters are what I really like about this story. Two of the characters I knew from when I did history at Secondary school. Burke and Hare are known in history as the Body snatchers. Quite a grim duo to put in essentially a family drama. At first it looks like the story is a simple case of the Doctor and Evelyn stopping these body snatchers but then it’s only when Doctor Robert Knox that it really goes up a gear. Leslie Philips is absolutely superb in this. He is reknowned in British culture as a star of the early Carry On films and his legendary “Ding-Dong”. The character of Knox is portrayed as another Timelord because he is travelling with a TARDIS but this isn’t the case as he won it. I also found the character of Daft Jamie was well done. Played by David Tennant (what’s he done with his career since?) the character was given a child like way which part of me found irritating but then the other part found it quite charming because he wasn’t being vindictive or horrible but just being himself. The moment when you know he has to do to let history get back on track was really sad and hits home how these characters can affect you. That is what makes great drama.
What we get is a difference of morals from the Doctor and Evelyn. Obviously being an alien the Doctor will see things slightly different than Evelyn. The Doctor realises that things have to go as history says but Evelyn wants to try and do some good. Their relationship is one of the biggest successes for Big Finish and its nice to have a slight conflict between the pair but hopefully it will just strengthen their relationship and I don’t want every story to be like this.
Overall this story is a fantastic effort. The characters are well written, the music and sound effects are superb and also the directing helps move the story along at a regular but fast pace. I would recommend this story to anyone who loves a historical story with a little twist.
The characters are what I really like about this story. Two of the characters I knew from when I did history at Secondary school. Burke and Hare are known in history as the Body snatchers. Quite a grim duo to put in essentially a family drama. At first it looks like the story is a simple case of the Doctor and Evelyn stopping these body snatchers but then it’s only when Doctor Robert Knox that it really goes up a gear. Leslie Philips is absolutely superb in this. He is reknowned in British culture as a star of the early Carry On films and his legendary “Ding-Dong”. The character of Knox is portrayed as another Timelord because he is travelling with a TARDIS but this isn’t the case as he won it. I also found the character of Daft Jamie was well done. Played by David Tennant (what’s he done with his career since?) the character was given a child like way which part of me found irritating but then the other part found it quite charming because he wasn’t being vindictive or horrible but just being himself. The moment when you know he has to do to let history get back on track was really sad and hits home how these characters can affect you. That is what makes great drama.
What we get is a difference of morals from the Doctor and Evelyn. Obviously being an alien the Doctor will see things slightly different than Evelyn. The Doctor realises that things have to go as history says but Evelyn wants to try and do some good. Their relationship is one of the biggest successes for Big Finish and its nice to have a slight conflict between the pair but hopefully it will just strengthen their relationship and I don’t want every story to be like this.
Overall this story is a fantastic effort. The characters are well written, the music and sound effects are superb and also the directing helps move the story along at a regular but fast pace. I would recommend this story to anyone who loves a historical story with a little twist.
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