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 | Don't go step off the path |
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How could this one fail with such a strong cast of charters. Nicholas Courtney is classic and the new partnership of Colin Baker and Maggie Stables delivers a powerful punch.
The plot reminds me strongly of a certain Daemon and Master TV episode with the third Doctor but who cares its great.
The monsters, sound effects and plot excellent and keep you hooked, this is the best one yet.
| What: | Red Dawn (Big Finish: The Monthly Adventures) |
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| By: | Clive Wright, Jersey |
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| Date: | Saturday 20 December 2003 |
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| Rating: |   5 |
The Ice warriors were always one of those monsters that like the sontarans looked great but never really had the stories that made them Daleks or Cybermen.
I'm afriad this is like the rest of them. The pace is slow the plot a little weak. At the end not much has really happened
It didn't take long but here they are. The Daleks deliver everything that you expect and its nice to step back to the Daleks of Patrick's time.
The plot is strong and although you now the Daleks are coming because there is a big one on the cover, their introduction is excellent.
I never liked Ace on TV and was waiting to shrink into my seat as I heard the cry "Ace" put gladly Sophie delivers a stronger more rounded charter. Sylester is good as ever.
Long live the Empire.
Colin Baker shines again and maggie stables a new and welcome addition comes across well in a strong story line.
A couple of the cliffhanders are excellent leaving you wanting more. Evelyn is a very real charter and I look forward to more of a good duo.
Peter Davison was always a good Doctor as sarah sutton a good assistant, although a little too smart at times.
The sense of atmosphere is very strong throughout the story and the monsters a real treat. A methods of monster bashing are a little weak, tins of paint! but overall an excellent yarn.
Colin Baker delivers a quality performance, his command of language and talent shine out, sadley not given the opportunity on TV.
The plot concerns sound and what a better way to get your mind working, than by CD.
This is what I call a classic, strong charters, plot and delivery. This may sound strange but try listening to it with all the lights off and then its impact really hits you.
I was so looking forward to the return of the Doctor and with three of them at once, my hope were raised for something special.
Parts 1-3 are good, well paced leaving you feeling whats next, what is behind all this, classic Doctor who However the last part is poor, it feels rushed and the the plot lines appear to come to little.
Sorry but not what I was looking for, but glad the Doctor is back.
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| My First Foray into a Whovian Anthology |
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| What: | Short Trips and Side Steps (Short Trips short story collections) |
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| By: | E. Foster, New Zealand |
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| Date: | Friday 12 December 2003 |
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| Rating: | 8 |
This collection of early short stories would certainly hold its own against the spectacular current efforts like "The Muses" and "Universe of Terrors". Like those books, this edition contains a mixture of traditional flavours and experimental pieces - finished off with a few downright bizarre works.
Opinion may divide over the overall literary weight of this book (some admittedly controversial concepts like "Nothing at the End of the Lane"), but it is nevertheless worth a look at any rate if only to satisfy your devotee curiosity.
| What: | Daleks: (TV episode audio soundtracks) |
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| By: | mark storton, usa |
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| Date: | Wednesday 10 December 2003 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
amazing amazing amazing
cmon, forget the story, its a piece of nostalga , classic stuff
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| Is there a Doctor in the House? |
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I seriously need a cure for a headache after reading Last Resort. With all the different jumps back and forth to different realities, it is very hard to keep track of what is going on. And then when I thought I had a grasp on things, some other reality showed up, confusing things again.
As far as Sabbath, enough already! Yes, he proved pivotal in this story, but the explanation as to why seemed very lacking. Everyone just seemed to accept it and moved on without knowing why he was the only one who didn't duplicate. Since when is because I said so acceptable?
Also, who is this stow-away in the TARDIS? this is the first time we've heard of her. Where did she come from? What story did she stow away in?
All these questions with no answers? Any light at the end of the tunnel and a new cohesive story arc?
Where's my aspirin?
Agatha Christie meets Dr Who. Swap a 30’s manor house for a futuristic planet setting and you have Robots of Death. Excellent costumes, excellent acting and gripping plot. The robots (or “creepy mechanical men”) make it very atmospheric. Tom Baker is at his peak and Louise Jamerson is brilliant as the savage Leela (That animal skin costume is just so hot!).
This is DR Who at it’s best, and even when you know the culprit, it bears watching again and again for sheer entertainment. A must for DR Who fans, SCI-FI fans and the casual viewer.
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| Its good but not THAT good |
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Against the grain for most fans of this series, but this story is very average. The monster is unconvincing, the acting of all but Christopher Gable (Sharaz Jek)
is very mediocre (or because he was so good, her made the others look mediocre?) and the regeneration scene was only as good as when the first Dr changed into into the second about 20 year’s before. If you are a big fan of the series, then this probably is already on your shelf. If you are a SCI-FI viewer or just a casual viewer, then I can only recommend that you look at other DR who's storys first.
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| Between Time Monster and 3 Doctors... |
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| What: | Verdigris (BBC Past Doctor novels) |
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| By: | Jay, Canada |
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| Date: | Sunday 7 December 2003 |
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| Rating: | 8 |
Hilarious and camp, fits well between it's gaudy tv neighbours and even manages to fuse the worlds of The Tomorrow People and Doctor Who into one bizarre story! Twisted, brilliant, and fun.
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| Not quite what I expected but... |
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Troughton is one of my favoirte actors to play the Doctor. I was happy to see anything about him. Unfortunately, this tape only features a poor quality amature interview video tape of Troughton at a convention. For some reason I thought this one would have included footage from American PBS station appearances. Apparently, that will be on another video.
It had a few interviews with actors that worked with him. It was interesting, but not as much as I was hoping for.
| What: | Illegal Alien (BBC Past Doctor novels) |
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| By: | Gibbs, England |
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| Date: | Thursday 4 December 2003 |
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| Rating: | 1 |
This is a poor book. The writers have no spark, no originality and no idea. It is a bit sad to see ideas that were used in the programme before the writers were even born rehashed time and time again.
The book also suffers from the awful 7th Doctor and Ace. I suppose it is good that McGoon is not actually playing the Dr, but overall it is not good characterisation.
I can believe that idiot JNT was planning to make this tripe for season 27. It is just such a JNT outing, old enemies, no new ideas, old plots reused, crap, crap, crap.
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| Great adventure! Great story! |
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A few more quid and a bit of a trim and this could have been a half decent movie release. Love that fact is on film not video, gives it a much more professional quality on DVD. The Autons are great, with one purpose, they are more or less early versions of the terminator. The let down has to John Pertwee’s struggle with the “intelligence” at the end of episode four, So bad it is good.
Classic well worth the buy for fans, SCFI lovers and others.
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| A Great Start for Big Finish |
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The anniversary gets the large format, non-fiction celebratory tome it desrves! As gorgeous to look at as The Legend is, which of us has bothered to actually read it cover-to-cover? The Inside Story could also be called The Untold Story, as we get to read tales and trivia previously unheard (although the Eyepatch episode is in there) about new Doctor Who being made here and now. Once you get over the weird sensation that such a huge book is feather-light, and the fact that the photographic reproduction isn't as high quality as the PDF previews might've led us to believe, you can sink your teeth into the real meat of the book - the text! Revelations and titbits about the first 50 stories, some quite controversial opinions and exposes of in-house fighting that the BBC would never dare admit publicly in one of their own publications. You'd have thought there would be little to distinguish the recordings of the individual stories (no tales of freak weather conditions forcing last minute script rewrites, co-stars having to slap each other because of the cold, or German nudists swimming to the rescue here), the sense of the series' growth really comes through. As David Banks was so found of proclaiming (though sadly not yet on a BF audio) "Excellent!"
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| Flip-Flop has it's Ups-n-Downs |
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| What: | Flip-Flop (Big Finish: The Monthly Adventures) |
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| By: | The Core-Man, Tampa, FL USA |
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| Date: | Monday 24 November 2003 |
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| Rating: | 8 |
What an interesting concept. Two CDs four episodes, where either CD can be played first. It makes the story very intersting. The dowside is that once you listen to one CD you know how the other CD is going to be, since it has to lead back to the first CD.
All in all, it's an interesting story that should be listened to twice (one way than the other), but not one of CDs that should be played more than a few times.
| What: | The Crooked World (BBC Eighth Doctor novels) |
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| By: | will, Fareham, England |
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| Date: | Saturday 8 November 2003 |
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| Rating: | 10 |
This book is funny and clever combining cartoon charcters with real death and destruction. The doctor is very well protrayed as well as the cartoons are very well protrayed.
