It’s a tradition now that Big Finish seems to stick ‘Return’ at the beginning of a story for the subscriber special. We had Return of the Daleks in 2007 and Return to the Web Planet. Last Year Big Finish bought back an alien that appeared once in 1965 in the form of the Zarbi and I thought it was a bit of a weird choice but it did actually work. This release also got a similar reaction from me. The Krotons! What on earth can you do with an alien that didn’t exactly shine when it first appeared back in 1968? Thankfully Nicholas Briggs takes over the writing and directing of this story so it’s a little bit reassuring.
This story takes an awful long time to get going and that might have something to do with the 70 minute length. But it soon did and then really became a nice enjoyable piece. Big Finish has a reputation of doing something different with well known characters. This story was no different as we were treated to a different Kroton that we previously knew.
The casting was lead by Philip Madoc who is making his second appearance in the Big Finish/Doctor Who series. Having obviously appeared in the original Kroton story, 1976 The Brain of Morbius story he had appeared in the 2003 story Master. He was brilliant in both of those stories and he was brilliant in this story. Colin Baker and India Fisher were on good form as usual. This story has an unusual feel in the fact that the whole Sixth Doctor/Charley story arc is doing is progressing on the normal range but at the same time not everybody is going to listen to it until well after the arc is completed so this story does feel slightly different.
As a freebie for me I cant complain but if I had paid for it then I would still rate it quite high. The Krotons were used a lot better than they had been on TV and the whole story just had a better feel to it. I thought that as a freebie release it was better than Return of the Daleks or Return to the Web Planet.
This story takes an awful long time to get going and that might have something to do with the 70 minute length. But it soon did and then really became a nice enjoyable piece. Big Finish has a reputation of doing something different with well known characters. This story was no different as we were treated to a different Kroton that we previously knew.
The casting was lead by Philip Madoc who is making his second appearance in the Big Finish/Doctor Who series. Having obviously appeared in the original Kroton story, 1976 The Brain of Morbius story he had appeared in the 2003 story Master. He was brilliant in both of those stories and he was brilliant in this story. Colin Baker and India Fisher were on good form as usual. This story has an unusual feel in the fact that the whole Sixth Doctor/Charley story arc is doing is progressing on the normal range but at the same time not everybody is going to listen to it until well after the arc is completed so this story does feel slightly different.
As a freebie for me I cant complain but if I had paid for it then I would still rate it quite high. The Krotons were used a lot better than they had been on TV and the whole story just had a better feel to it. I thought that as a freebie release it was better than Return of the Daleks or Return to the Web Planet.
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