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Thworping through time and space, one adventure at a time!

“A BOAT BETWEEN DIMENSIONS!”

The first season of The Lost Stories comes to an end with The Macros, a story written by Ingrid “the worst guest actress in the history of the show” Pitt and her husband Tony Rudlin and dealing with the 1943 Philadelphia Experiment, which attempted to turn the USS Eldridge invisible.

Our story kicks off with Six and Peri materialising on the USS Eldridge, but on a different spatial and temporal plane than the crew of the ship. It’s a slightly confusing and very mysterious beginning to the adventure.

This is the sort of historical story that suggests alien involvement in a seemingly strange real-life occurrence. It’s much more interested in exploring the dimensions and timey-wimey science than the actual event and the people involved, though.

There’s a strong sci-fi element here as well in the form of Planet Capron and its ruler Osloo (a sneaky nod to Norway, I’m sure!) which just feels like a shoehorned element in a historical event that could work well without it. The worst part is that the script is so interested in Capron and its tiresome court politics that it leaves no room for the historical narrative to flourish.

Part 1 rolls along but does nothing to make the characters interesting or the story interesting to listen to. The shocking cliffhanger reignites my interest for Part 2.

Part 2 gets more focused on actually solving the problem at hand, but it’s too little, too late. It’s a pity, because the second half is more dramatic and a bit more tense as well.

The President doesn’t turn truly interesting until Part 2, when she opposes the Doctor and his attempt to save the day. I also love the climax and the little twist ending—something of a mashup of The Time Monster and The Sun Makers.

RANDOM OBSERVATIONS:

• This story was apparently twice lost, because when BF contacted Pitt and Rudlin about adapting their unmade script for The Macros, they had just lost their computer, which held the original scripts, meaning that they lost access to Part 2 and parts of Part 1 and had to recreate the story from memory.