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Released

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Written by

Xanna Eve Chown

Runtime

64 minutes

Time Travel

Future

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Ghosts

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Nemeqit

Synopsis

“S.O.S. Emergency. Please send… an archaeologist?”

On a routine postal mission for a deranged millionaire, Bernice, Ruth and Jack intercept a distress signal from the most haunted planet in the galaxy: Nemeqit.

Taking their newly-christened shuttle - The Irverfield - down to investigate, the trio soon find themselves confronted with a pair of childlike extra-terrestrials; Vonna Byzantium, presenter of Paranormal Planets and part-time diva... and an awful lot of dust.

But something else is going on beneath the surface of Nemeqit, something none of them ever imagined. And this time, Bernice really can’t save everyone…

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The first time I listened to this boxset, the comment I made was 'The Irverfield is one of the funniest names for a thing I have ever heard. The best thing about the boxset'. And I was right. And 'Irverfield' isn't even that funny.

This story calls for 'an archaeologist' to head to a planet that is alive or something and has two creepy dust children or something and there's also a paranormal hunter there too for some reason. It's remeniscent of Iris Wildthyme: High Spirits except at least that episode is actually funny. I feel like this episode tries for humour, and falls completely flat. All the characters were completely unengaging to me, and even Benny herself I felt was just plodding through the motions.

I think we were meant to feel sorry for the two planet children of dust or whatever they were, but honestly I was over them when we started with the naked jokes and totally tapped out by the end. And I think the conwoman paranormal videographer was supposed to be funny, but she was mostly just a bit irritating.

If I remember rightly, this boxset doesn't get any better either. Sigh.


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