Faith Stealer (2004)

Faith Stealer was the very first Big Finish adventure that I ever listened to. Perhaps in hindsight it wasn’t the best story to start off with and this is well into the Divergent Universe story arc. Faith Stealer is more of a social commentary about Faith and how seriously people take it. Personally for me I found this story to be a bit drawn out and unfortunately is a weak story. It wasn’t a complete failure however as there were some elements in this story that worked. Firstly the Multihaven is a brilliant idea as it like a country with different religions and different opinions. Then there is the Bordinan who a leader that is quite interesting character.

In this story we start to learn about C’Rizz which is was very interesting but hopefully more will come out in future stories. The Doctor is entertaining in this story and when they arrive he declares he is of the Tourist faith which is the truest thing he’s said in years. He does descend into feeling down about his abilities. It does seem to be a Charley light story however it seems to be more about C’Rizz than Charley so that’s not too surprising. With C’Rizz he still has issues about killing L’Da which hopefully will be resolved soon.

The start of this new series wasn’t perhaps the best that there could have been but the characters were there it was just the actual plot and directing itself that led to this story not firing on all cylinders.