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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Music Lover.
Format:Audio CD
I nearly always enjoy these Big Finish productions, but this one was a let-down,
Silly, annoying, shouty voices that were meant to be the cannibalist robots, but just sounded like raucous humans with, well... silly shouty loud voices, shouting every time they spoke. Intensely irritating to listen to, and made part one into an endurance test.
Part two was marginally better, because at least by then, some kind of story had started to form. Unfortunately though, all the robots still sounded too human. If they'd sounded more mechanical and, well, robotic, the story would have been greatly improved and been far more interesting to listen to. - And certainly easier on the ears!
I wasn't too keen on another story in this series either, - The Scapegoat. I usually enjoy the 8th Doctor's stories, but not these two. I'm not keen on Lucie Miller, the companion, either, I find her altogether too mouthy and irritating to listen to. Her voice can get really annoying and grating. I much prefer Charlie (Charotte) Pollard, and one can only hope that as she finishes her term with the 6th Doctor, we may get her back with the 8th. They made a great team. (But then she does with the 6th Doctor also).
So, a major let-down for the first part of this story, only just saved by the 2nd part, which just prevented the whole thing being written off as a dismal failure. Sorry. Such a shame, I had been looking forward to hearing The Cannibalists after reading good reviews for it, but it's not to my taste at all. It's hard to imagine how anyone could enjoy settling down to listen to loud, angry, bellowing, rough, raucous voices, but there you go, it takes all sorts I guess! - And quite why it was decided that the cannibalist robots' awful shouty voices all had to have Cockney accents is anyone's guess.....
Silly, annoying, shouty voices that were meant to be the cannibalist robots, but just sounded like raucous humans with, well... silly shouty loud voices, shouting every time they spoke. Intensely irritating to listen to, and made part one into an endurance test.
Part two was marginally better, because at least by then, some kind of story had started to form. Unfortunately though, all the robots still sounded too human. If they'd sounded more mechanical and, well, robotic, the story would have been greatly improved and been far more interesting to listen to. - And certainly easier on the ears!
I wasn't too keen on another story in this series either, - The Scapegoat. I usually enjoy the 8th Doctor's stories, but not these two. I'm not keen on Lucie Miller, the companion, either, I find her altogether too mouthy and irritating to listen to. Her voice can get really annoying and grating. I much prefer Charlie (Charotte) Pollard, and one can only hope that as she finishes her term with the 6th Doctor, we may get her back with the 8th. They made a great team. (But then she does with the 6th Doctor also).
So, a major let-down for the first part of this story, only just saved by the 2nd part, which just prevented the whole thing being written off as a dismal failure. Sorry. Such a shame, I had been looking forward to hearing The Cannibalists after reading good reviews for it, but it's not to my taste at all. It's hard to imagine how anyone could enjoy settling down to listen to loud, angry, bellowing, rough, raucous voices, but there you go, it takes all sorts I guess! - And quite why it was decided that the cannibalist robots' awful shouty voices all had to have Cockney accents is anyone's guess.....
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Tony Jones
VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
This episode hits all the buttons for me - it has a decent cast (as usual) thought Phil Jupitus is not easily recognised under the voice processing; good production (as ever, though this really feels set on a space station (much as Wirrn Dawn sounded 'right')), good story and nice angles.
The story concerns a space station which has never been inhabited, and over time the robots degenerate into tribes ranging from the Assemblers (old intellectual robots) to the Cannibalists (the rogues that go round scavenging other robots for spare parts). Naturally the Doctor and Lucie fall into the 'hands' of the latter and eventually have to face up to some revelations as to the history of the station, and sacrifice their one ally for the greater good.
This and the fact that the Cannibalists are straight out of Dickens!
What's more we have robot poetry as well!
A tour de force!
The story concerns a space station which has never been inhabited, and over time the robots degenerate into tribes ranging from the Assemblers (old intellectual robots) to the Cannibalists (the rogues that go round scavenging other robots for spare parts). Naturally the Doctor and Lucie fall into the 'hands' of the latter and eventually have to face up to some revelations as to the history of the station, and sacrifice their one ally for the greater good.
This and the fact that the Cannibalists are straight out of Dickens!
What's more we have robot poetry as well!
A tour de force!
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By S Maslin
Format:Audio CD
Bang, crash, shout, bang, shout, crash! Enough! Enough already!
What on earth went wrong in the planning for The New Eighth Doctor Adventures? From a series that has provided such slabs of genius as 'Brave New Town', 'Grand Theft Cosmos', 'The Beast of Orlok' or 'Scapegoat', why are we then expected to tolerate this moronic non-comedy?
Most of the cast merely have to make a lot of noise and whoever thought to cast Phil Jupitus as the friendly robot Servo really wasn't thinking. He is dreadfully out of his depth. Are we really back to the JNT celebrity casting couch after all this time? What's more, Minerva is a deus-ex-machina cop-out of staggering proportions.
But by far the biggest flaw is the ear-shredding unpleasantness of the sound of it all - more than once I had to rip off my headphones for the sake of my hearing - and for something that's meant to be funny, 'The Cannibalists' really isn't. Nor is the salutory ending anything more than naff cliche.
Jonathan Morris has given us some really special Doctor Who novels and audios over the years but 'The Cannibalists' isn't one of them.
What on earth went wrong in the planning for The New Eighth Doctor Adventures? From a series that has provided such slabs of genius as 'Brave New Town', 'Grand Theft Cosmos', 'The Beast of Orlok' or 'Scapegoat', why are we then expected to tolerate this moronic non-comedy?
Most of the cast merely have to make a lot of noise and whoever thought to cast Phil Jupitus as the friendly robot Servo really wasn't thinking. He is dreadfully out of his depth. Are we really back to the JNT celebrity casting couch after all this time? What's more, Minerva is a deus-ex-machina cop-out of staggering proportions.
But by far the biggest flaw is the ear-shredding unpleasantness of the sound of it all - more than once I had to rip off my headphones for the sake of my hearing - and for something that's meant to be funny, 'The Cannibalists' really isn't. Nor is the salutory ending anything more than naff cliche.
Jonathan Morris has given us some really special Doctor Who novels and audios over the years but 'The Cannibalists' isn't one of them.
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