Time Works is a very curious story. Which is one word that I would associate with all of McGann’s adventures. Steve Lyons’ previous scripts were the very good The Fires of Vulcan (2000) and the very complex Colditz in 2001. As Big Finish is fighting to keep people interested in their product instead of the newly polished TV version, its bold stories like this that show why Big Finish are so good.
The Doctor, Charley and C’Rizz arrive where the people on this planet are frozen in time. When they start moving the Doctor learns that everyone is obsessed with time. They build their lives around it. Now normally something like this would bore me to tears but what Lyons has managed to do is create a world with characters that are very interesting and have a lot of things going for them. For one the minor characters in this are written so well that when they are killed I felt really sad.
A name that stood out to me when I read the casting list was Tracey Childs who previously starred in the Lyons written Colditz. She plays the Figurehead. The character has been created by the occupants of the old world who we learn we wiped out by a meteor because they essentially couldn’t be bothered to come up with technology to prevent it. Paul McGann, India Fisher and Conrad Westmaas all performed very well with a script that gives them lots to do. In fact the partnership between Charley and C’Rizz was one of the best that these two have had for quite sometime.
Whilst I don’t think that this was as good as Other Lives I do think that it’s a better offering than I thought it would be. All the main cast performed well and were well supported by the guest cast members. Whilst I felt that the first episode was the weaker of the four once you get past part one. Lyons has written another good story and Edward Salt has done a good job keeping the pace move at a nice steady pace.
The Doctor, Charley and C’Rizz arrive where the people on this planet are frozen in time. When they start moving the Doctor learns that everyone is obsessed with time. They build their lives around it. Now normally something like this would bore me to tears but what Lyons has managed to do is create a world with characters that are very interesting and have a lot of things going for them. For one the minor characters in this are written so well that when they are killed I felt really sad.
A name that stood out to me when I read the casting list was Tracey Childs who previously starred in the Lyons written Colditz. She plays the Figurehead. The character has been created by the occupants of the old world who we learn we wiped out by a meteor because they essentially couldn’t be bothered to come up with technology to prevent it. Paul McGann, India Fisher and Conrad Westmaas all performed very well with a script that gives them lots to do. In fact the partnership between Charley and C’Rizz was one of the best that these two have had for quite sometime.
Whilst I don’t think that this was as good as Other Lives I do think that it’s a better offering than I thought it would be. All the main cast performed well and were well supported by the guest cast members. Whilst I felt that the first episode was the weaker of the four once you get past part one. Lyons has written another good story and Edward Salt has done a good job keeping the pace move at a nice steady pace.
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