Nekromanteia is bad. There I’ve said it. It ranks as one of my least favourite stories that Big Finish have ever produced. It pains me to write this but it’s true. It’s unnecessarily grim. There are threats, murders but more shockingly implications of rape. Now this isn’t Brookside or Hollyoaks but Doctor Who where the worst thing should be an invasion by Daleks.
The Doctor, Peri and Erimem arrive in the middle of a war. The war is between the Corporation which goes without a name which not surprisingly cares more about improving its profits and depriving the workforce out of every penny. On the other side are the witches who like nothing more than to kill members of the corporation.
Peter Davison, Nicola Bryant and Caroline Morris are given absolutely nothing to work with. Granted Erimem has a slightly different journey in this story when she is nearly raped and beaten. Family stuff I think you’ll admit. Austen Atkinson have written a poor script had potential but throws all the good stuff and replaces it with truly awful stuff. I can’t believe that Davison, Bryant or even Morris objected to this stuff. There is nothing that justifies what happens in this story. Unless the story is Prime Suspect.
I think that this story should be listened to in order to be believed. It’s a shame that the Fifth Doctor wasn’t given a better story but ultimately it had to happen sooner or later I suppose. The corporation is unoriginal and the witches sacrificing member of the corporation just for the hell of it is also unoriginal.
Not a good story in any sense.
The Doctor, Peri and Erimem arrive in the middle of a war. The war is between the Corporation which goes without a name which not surprisingly cares more about improving its profits and depriving the workforce out of every penny. On the other side are the witches who like nothing more than to kill members of the corporation.
Peter Davison, Nicola Bryant and Caroline Morris are given absolutely nothing to work with. Granted Erimem has a slightly different journey in this story when she is nearly raped and beaten. Family stuff I think you’ll admit. Austen Atkinson have written a poor script had potential but throws all the good stuff and replaces it with truly awful stuff. I can’t believe that Davison, Bryant or even Morris objected to this stuff. There is nothing that justifies what happens in this story. Unless the story is Prime Suspect.
I think that this story should be listened to in order to be believed. It’s a shame that the Fifth Doctor wasn’t given a better story but ultimately it had to happen sooner or later I suppose. The corporation is unoriginal and the witches sacrificing member of the corporation just for the hell of it is also unoriginal.
Not a good story in any sense.
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