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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Something in the water does not compute, 2 April 2009
In the Thirty-second Century, The Doctor finds himself on a planet piled high with discarded computer technology. Picking over these remains are an army of Scandroids, illegal Data Pirates, and a team of researchers from the mysterious Lonway Clinic. This is a world of organic-digital transfer and 'personality surgery' which seems bad enough, however there is something far more terrifying waiting in the wings, and as usual The Timelord's arrival coincides with its emergence...
To be honest, the best bit of this CD is the bonus one-part episode 'Urgent Calls', whereby a wrong number is dialled, with far-reaching consequences. The Sixth Doctor without a companion to spark off can be a bit overbearing and the somewhat stilted dialogue and lack of real central story is also frustrating. All in all an average entry in the monthly series.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Highly Enjoyable Adventures, 30 Sep 2007
The second from Big Finish I've purchased, and again I have to say it's highly enjoyable. This is (as has been mentioned) in effect two in one. First is ID, a three-parter and then Urgent Calls, a single part story.
ID sees the Doctor arrive - unsurprisingly - alone on a distant rubbish dump. Although at the time he is unaware of where he is. Set in the Earth's future, the dump is full of old computers and other technology still full of data, which is extracted. The Doctor discovers the Lonway Clinic, which does personality surgery. This alone the Doctor finds disturbing, and soon after his arrival Scandroids used to gather the data end up turning mad and killing any human it connects to to provide "priority data". From there the story develops quite interesting and excitingly, by no means stretched or concised to fit into the three episode format. Very enjoyable, and interesting to find the Sixth Doctor working alone, which seems odd to me, but actually works really well!
Then there is the single episode Urgent Calls. Through a number of wrong numbers and coincidences, the Doctor finds himself speaking to a girl from the 1974s, however the seeming innocent wrong number, has more to it than it would appear.
The whole CD is incredibly good, preferable to Big Finish's previous Renaissance of the Daleks and strongly recommended!
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Information, 24 May 2007
Another audio adventure for the sixth doctor who. Although this is a little different to previous ones as it's actually two stories. One lasting three parts. Another of just one part in duration.
In the three part story, the doctor arrives on a world where a vast amount of computer and robotic technology has been dumped, creating one big landfill of the stuff. People live here, and survive by selling what they can find. Elsewhere on the planet there are researchers, who are looking into the work of a scientist who has vanished. When people start to go missing, and robots behave in odd ways, the doctor has to face a deadly threat to the people of the world.
This story is in three twenty five minute long episodes. The first one takes a while to get going and seems over familiar, and doesn't really grab. But things take a different turn in part two which is thoroughly involving. All the supporting cast really come into their own, and produce good characters with some very good performances. You will probably see the end of episode two coming, but that's not a problem as the story is so involving. You have to pay close attention to part three as there's a lot of technical explanations for what's going on. It does also cover a few interesting themes that make the listener think about them, and that's always good. So despite a slightly weak start, this goes on to become an above average story.
The one part story on the disc is urgent calls, in which the doctor is in 1970's britain, and answering a ringing telephone leads him to discover a threat to the human race. And into an interesting relationship with an ordinary woman.
An excellent two hander play, as it consists almost entirely of conversations between the doctor and the lady, and they develop a quite touching relationship. There's hints that the doctor is doing something bigger that you never quite get to find out about, although this will evidently be dealt with in future one parters on future stories. It's possibly a few minutes too long, but as a look at how the doctor affects the lives of the people he encounters, it's really very good.
All in all an above average audio and well worth listening to
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