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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The first of three 2010 Big Finish dramas to feature The Seventh Doctor, Ace and Hex is another accomplished and hugely enjoyable offering from Big Finish. The story twists and turns with a surprising and disturbing reveal that will leave at least one of the time-travellers shaken to the core.
The Seventh Doctor is firing on all cylinders here, Ace gets another opportunity to play soldier, and Hex is as gently bemused as ever. The travelling companions arrive in the middle of a fractured community and encounter an old adversary who appears to have been expecting them, whilst Hex fights for his life after sustaining a musket-ball wound during the TARDIS crews' previous adventures in Scutari.
Scott & Wright's script is terrific and the cast rise to it admirably. With excellent support from Stephen Chance as the icily subversive Nimrod, plus Maggie O'Neill and Philip Dinsdale, the three principals provide what is easily one of their best performances to date; the trilogy is also nicely set up at the end of disc two when a shocking truth is revealed and The Doctor seems to have been conducting his cosmic chess game again with devastating effects.
The Seventh Doctor is firing on all cylinders here, Ace gets another opportunity to play soldier, and Hex is as gently bemused as ever. The travelling companions arrive in the middle of a fractured community and encounter an old adversary who appears to have been expecting them, whilst Hex fights for his life after sustaining a musket-ball wound during the TARDIS crews' previous adventures in Scutari.
Scott & Wright's script is terrific and the cast rise to it admirably. With excellent support from Stephen Chance as the icily subversive Nimrod, plus Maggie O'Neill and Philip Dinsdale, the three principals provide what is easily one of their best performances to date; the trilogy is also nicely set up at the end of disc two when a shocking truth is revealed and The Doctor seems to have been conducting his cosmic chess game again with devastating effects.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Tony Jones
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And so the Doctor once more encounters the Forge and in particular Nimrod. Many years have passed both for the Forge and for Big Finish fans, in the interim we have worked out that Hex is in fact the son of Cassie Schofield mentioned in Project Lazarus and now about to meet his destiny (and more) as he finds out who his mother was and the role the Doctor played in her death.
The plot is another abandoned London, alien threat to the world (the Contaminants) and the usual friction between time-travellers and military. Largely formulaic though some good scenes for Ace and Hex when isolated from the others.
Curiously (and this may be an artefact of the recording sequence overall) this story happens before the seventh Doctor has been to the Forge in Project Lazarus so the narrative only refers back to the sixth Doctor portion of that story. Tricky but it does work.
I purchased this for closure of the Forge arc - I much prefer Colin Baker's Doctor to McCoy's (no offence intended) as the latter seems to spend too much time being angry. As a piece we have all the usual excellences of recording, music, sound effects and some wonderful extras giving some insight into just how this story finally made it to our ears. It does this and also tells a good story in its own right.
Overall a very good piece
The plot is another abandoned London, alien threat to the world (the Contaminants) and the usual friction between time-travellers and military. Largely formulaic though some good scenes for Ace and Hex when isolated from the others.
Curiously (and this may be an artefact of the recording sequence overall) this story happens before the seventh Doctor has been to the Forge in Project Lazarus so the narrative only refers back to the sixth Doctor portion of that story. Tricky but it does work.
I purchased this for closure of the Forge arc - I much prefer Colin Baker's Doctor to McCoy's (no offence intended) as the latter seems to spend too much time being angry. As a piece we have all the usual excellences of recording, music, sound effects and some wonderful extras giving some insight into just how this story finally made it to our ears. It does this and also tells a good story in its own right.
Overall a very good piece
By jan
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Another Christmas present for the Dr Who buff no complaints so I guess it was in perfect working order and just as she had 'Wished' for
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