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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This comes right after the audio embrace the darkness, which had a superb first episode but became a very disappointing runaround of a story afterwards.
And alas, the same thing happens here.
What a set up!
Future britain under a military dictator. The daleks. Who recite shakespeare. Time travel via mirrors. And a mysterious young boy. Who is he?
Once having set this up in the first part, the next three have the doctor run around for the course of the episode before everything is resolved at the end with lots of explosions. Justin Richards has done so much doctor who fiction now many of his characters do tend to come over very cliched, and that's true of the supporting cast here. You will either guess the identity of the boy early on and find the story totally obvious as a result, or be compltely fooled and knocked for six as a result. Maybe whether you like this story or not hinges on that, but I'm afraid I fell in the former camp.
And alas, the same thing happens here.
What a set up!
Future britain under a military dictator. The daleks. Who recite shakespeare. Time travel via mirrors. And a mysterious young boy. Who is he?
Once having set this up in the first part, the next three have the doctor run around for the course of the episode before everything is resolved at the end with lots of explosions. Justin Richards has done so much doctor who fiction now many of his characters do tend to come over very cliched, and that's true of the supporting cast here. You will either guess the identity of the boy early on and find the story totally obvious as a result, or be compltely fooled and knocked for six as a result. Maybe whether you like this story or not hinges on that, but I'm afraid I fell in the former camp.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Justin Richards' contribution to the second "season" of Big Finish Eighth Doctor audio adventures clearly wants to be an 'event story'. Not only does it feature the Eighth Doctor's first run in with the pepperpot menace (at least in the audio format) but there are time travel mirrors and the Daleks have picked up a fascination with the works of Shakespeare.
'Event stories' work when they manage to twist and catch you off guard, taking directions you did not expect at the start of the story. One of the best examples is from the TV episode 'Earthshock' which managed to keep its returning villain secret, thrilling its audience. 'The Time of the Daleks' tries hard to surprise us but somehow it feels predictable.
More crucially, the concept of Daleks as Shakespeare buffs is simply too crazy to be taken seriously. The result is a story whose deficiencies simply overpower its strengths (for instance Paul McGann's excellent performance, allusions to 'Evil of the Daleks' or the superb sound design).
'The Time of the Daleks' is not terrible - it simply disappoints by over-reaching itself and being very, very silly.
'Event stories' work when they manage to twist and catch you off guard, taking directions you did not expect at the start of the story. One of the best examples is from the TV episode 'Earthshock' which managed to keep its returning villain secret, thrilling its audience. 'The Time of the Daleks' tries hard to surprise us but somehow it feels predictable.
More crucially, the concept of Daleks as Shakespeare buffs is simply too crazy to be taken seriously. The result is a story whose deficiencies simply overpower its strengths (for instance Paul McGann's excellent performance, allusions to 'Evil of the Daleks' or the superb sound design).
'The Time of the Daleks' is not terrible - it simply disappoints by over-reaching itself and being very, very silly.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Big finish has the ability to wander into some very strange areas which often isn't a bad thing the lack of visual means that there is the ability to go further with a plot and for some reason it gives the daleks more menace. The general plot is difficult to explain in the semi near future the uk is ruled by an originally benevolent dictator who is slowly becoming more brutal against a band of rebels who are very unhappy because people are forgetting shakespeare enter the doctor. who belives there is a fissure in time and when he finds out there is a primitive time travel device using mirrors and clocks he believes that this could be the cause of it all until he sees a few daleks skulking around wanting to protect shakespeare.
As odd as it sounds it does all make a twisted sense and as usual McGann pulls it off with a aplomb, one of his strongest assets is that he takes it seriously and delivers it all with a strange caring tone, unfortunately as usual Charley is superflous but the rest of the characters interact well, the daleks are at there best when they are being devious which they are here. It all kind of works when it could have been crashingly painful and ends up being very entertaining.
As odd as it sounds it does all make a twisted sense and as usual McGann pulls it off with a aplomb, one of his strongest assets is that he takes it seriously and delivers it all with a strange caring tone, unfortunately as usual Charley is superflous but the rest of the characters interact well, the daleks are at there best when they are being devious which they are here. It all kind of works when it could have been crashingly painful and ends up being very entertaining.
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