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After the disappointment of THE FEARMONGER, Big Finish's audio range is back on form with the best of its first six releases. After reuniting the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Doctors with existing companions for previous stories, here Big Finish creates an original character to accompany the Sixth Doctor, Historian Dr Evelyn Smythe, played by Maggie Stables. The sleeve notes state that this is an attempt to do an 'Hartnell historical' for the Sixth Doctor, and there are plenty of similarities with those stories, although there's also the concept of a nexus point in time which seems to contradict everything that the Doctor told Barbara in THE AZTECS. Evelyn is introduced well, and a reason for her joining the Doctor is established, although I couldn't quite see just why things were happening. The disappearance of her ancestors seemed similar to the way Marty's siblings disappeared from his photograph in BACK TO THE FUTURE, but at least there we knew why this was happening. Oh well, it's probably best left unsolved rather than using the sort of explanations that crop up in the Eighth Doctor books. To sort it all out, the Doctor must travel back to Elizabeth London to track down the nexus point, and Evelyn insists on accompanying him. There's a Hartnell-era splitting of the Doctor and companion here, with Evelyn meeting some anarchists in an inn while the Doctor gets to meet the Queen. The characters are all interesting and the production is up to the usual high standard. In fact, apart from the slight plot convenience of the whole nexus thing, the story's only weak link is Barnaby Edwards' Francois de Noailles, who seems to have come from the Inspector Clouseau School of Accents. Other than that minor complaint, however, this is a great release from Big Finish. Evelyn makes a great debut and the plot has enough twists and humorous scenes to keep things moving along nicely. Let's hope they can keep this up. BACK TO THE TOP |
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