Ringpullworld is the final story of 2009 for the Companion Chronicles. It sees the turn of Vislor Turlough to tell a story of his. It’s only the fourth time that Mark Strickson has reprised the role since his 1983/84 tenure. His previous adventures were Phantasmagoria (1999), Loups-Garoux (2001) and Singularity (2005). I always felt that the character of Turlough was under written and not valued highly enough. So whenever Strickson reprises the role I always feel that it’s a nice chance to see what Big Finish can do with the character.
The story sees Turlough in a stolen ship with novelisor called Huxley. They are travelling to a time of space called the ringpull which seperates to universes in the form of a ringpull. Apparently this is a bad thing to want to open it for reasons that I never quite understood. I have to admit that I wasn’t overly impressed with this story. I actually though it was quite dull. The problem was that it started off telling a story that took place in the past and then for no reason what so ever started talking about a part of the story that could happen but there is every chance that it won’t happen. That’s a waste of 20 minutes.
Mark Strickson did a very good job as Turlough. Even though this is the only time he returns to acting he sounds exactly the same as he did when he was on television. I thought that his Doctor impression was very good and quite similar to how Davison sounds on most Big Finish. However his Tegan impression was a bit all over the place. It was just like he thought ‘what the hell, I’ll just do an exaggerated Australian accent!’. That said the Turlough that Strickson gives in this story is the same that we saw in 1983.
I thought that the ending was well done. It was that sense of wanting to know how things go that made it enjoyable. A sort of Lost feeling to it. Apart from that however I thought that the story was trying to be too clever. If it had been like every other CC story then the release would have been more enjoyable than it ultimately was. I think that the trying to tell a story in the past and potentially the future was a gamble that didn’t quite pay off. It’s not a terrible story by any means but unfortunately it’s the weakest story of this fourth series and possibly even of 2009.
The story sees Turlough in a stolen ship with novelisor called Huxley. They are travelling to a time of space called the ringpull which seperates to universes in the form of a ringpull. Apparently this is a bad thing to want to open it for reasons that I never quite understood. I have to admit that I wasn’t overly impressed with this story. I actually though it was quite dull. The problem was that it started off telling a story that took place in the past and then for no reason what so ever started talking about a part of the story that could happen but there is every chance that it won’t happen. That’s a waste of 20 minutes.
Mark Strickson did a very good job as Turlough. Even though this is the only time he returns to acting he sounds exactly the same as he did when he was on television. I thought that his Doctor impression was very good and quite similar to how Davison sounds on most Big Finish. However his Tegan impression was a bit all over the place. It was just like he thought ‘what the hell, I’ll just do an exaggerated Australian accent!’. That said the Turlough that Strickson gives in this story is the same that we saw in 1983.
I thought that the ending was well done. It was that sense of wanting to know how things go that made it enjoyable. A sort of Lost feeling to it. Apart from that however I thought that the story was trying to be too clever. If it had been like every other CC story then the release would have been more enjoyable than it ultimately was. I think that the trying to tell a story in the past and potentially the future was a gamble that didn’t quite pay off. It’s not a terrible story by any means but unfortunately it’s the weakest story of this fourth series and possibly even of 2009.
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