Stories Audio Drama Big Finish Main Range Main Range Episode 22 Bloodtide 1 image Overview Characters How to Listen Reviews 10 Statistics Quotes 2 Overview Released Monday, July 23, 2001 Written by Jonathan Morris Publisher Big Finish Productions Directed by Gary Russell Runtime 117 minutes Time Travel Past Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) Celebrity Historical, Disease, Doctor imprisoned, Mind Control, Religion, Vegetarian Location (Potential Spoilers!) Galápagos, Earth Synopsis The prehistoric Earth is dying. Thunderclouds roll across the skies, cloaking the land in darkness. The seas crash and boil as the rain turns to acid. The remnants of the Silurian race place themselves in suspended animation, deep below the surface. One day they will awaken and reclaim their world... The TARDIS has landed on the Galápagos Islands, a desolate outcrop of rocks shrouded in mist and fear. In the settlement of Baquerizo Moreno, there are rumours that prisoners have been mysteriously disappearing from the gaolhouse. A fisherman has been driven insane by something he saw in the caves. And the Sixth Doctor and Eveyln are not the only new arrivals; there is also a young natural philosopher by the name of Charles Darwin... Listen Listened Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Edit date completed Custom Date Release Date Archive (no date) Save Characters Sixth Doctor Colin Baker Evelyn Smythe Maggie Stables Charles Darwin Silurians Myrka Spoiler!Click to reveal 👀 Tulok Show All Characters (6) How to listen to Bloodtide: Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Big Finish Audio Bloodtide Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Date (Newest First) Date (Oldest First) Likes (High-Low) Likes (Low-High) Rating (High-Low) Rating (Low-High) Word count (High-Low) Word count (Low-High) Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 10 reviews 19 March 2025 · 20 words Review by megaminxwin Spoilers This review contains spoilers! a fun if very strange story examining the relationship between silurians and humans. all hail tulok, our lord and creator megaminxwin View profile Like Liked 0 15 January 2025 · 304 words Review by KnuppMello Spoilers 2 This review contains spoilers! Original (Brazilian Portuguese) Translation (English) Bloodtide pode ser considerado um marco para os fãs do Classic Who por proporcionar o retorno de um dos vilões mais icônicos desse período da série, Os Silurians – Visando sua última aparição no desastroso “Warriors Of The Deep”, ao coloca-lo e compara-lo com essas duas histórias “Bloodtide” e “Doctor Who And The Silurians” o arco estrelado por Peter Davison se torna uma peça ainda mais estupida do que já é. Eis aqui um áudio rico em conteúdo, além de apresentar uma perfeita consistência, o enredo de Jonathan Morris se aprofunda em assuntos biológicos muito interessantes, envolvendo temas como processo evolutivo das espécies, seleção natural, comportamento da natureza e até mesmo chega aborda algumas reflexões pessimistas de crenças religiosas sobre a real origem do ser humano. Juntamente a isso, existe um enriquecimento nos Silurians encorpando ainda mais a lore dos vilões – Alias... não sei, mas fiquei como um leve impressão que Bloodtide fez uma “”retcon”” na origem do ser humano kkk. A trama também conta com Charles Darwin sendo praticamente um companion do Doctor e da Evelyn, sua figura é reproduzida de forma muito envolvente o tornando um dos personagens mais fortes do enredo. Sim, tenho que admitir que a problemática causada pelos vilões está longe de ser algo considerado como diferenciado, tem até algumas coisas ali que nitidamente foram pescadas de suas histórias anteriores – Mesmo com isso, considerando que esee é o primeiro roteiro que Morris escreveu para a Big Finish, o nível de qualidade apresentado em termos de estrutura, diálogos e consistência é impressionante, dando ares do que o escritor já é um veterano. Confesso que esse foi um dos áudios mais interessantes que eu já ouvi da BIG FINISH – Super recomendo! Click here to translate KnuppMello View profile Like Liked 2 2 January 2025 · 88 words Review by RandomJoke Spoilers 1 This review contains spoilers! I think this one is quite flawed but held by a great Idea, great Cliffhangers and wonderful Character Dynamics (especially with Six and Evelyn or Evelyn and Darwin). I am not sure where to place it, it’s definitely better than “just solid”, but I can’t really place it too highly, and I am not quite sure why. Maybe some Ideas went a bit unexplored for my liking, but overall it’s definitely a good first Outing for the Silurians on BF (at least I believe so?) RandomJoke View profile Like Liked 1 1 November 2024 · 287 words Review by thedefinitearticle63 Spoilers 3 This review contains spoilers! This is part of a series of reviews of Doctor Who in chronological timeline order. Previous Story: The Apocalypse Element Charles Darwin and the Silurians, a pair so perfect for each other that they're doing it again in a book coming out this month. This story is actually really interesting in how it handles Darwin encountering the Silurians, at the start he's skeptical of God, but still believing in him and by the end he believes that religion is a lie. It's fascinating to hear this happen over the course of the story and Miles Richardson's excellent performance as Darwin really helps this story stand out. Colin Baker and Maggie Stables remain an extremely fun pair to listen to. I was surprised to find out that this was one of few Classic Silurian stories on audio, they feel like such an iconic villain that you'd expect them to appear in more. I do really like how accurate this story is to the sound design of the Silurians. The voices are on point and this story even includes the infamous third eye laser noise responsible for so many ridiculous Classic Who cliffhangers. While the inclusion of Darwin definitely makes this story stand out, it still follows the typical format of a Silurian adventure. There's always one good Silurian and one bad one that argue a bunch. The Doctor tries to be the voice of reason. Somewhere along the way a virus gets released and it ends in explosion. Overall, I like so many things about this story (the atmosphere, the way it uses Charles Darwin, the accuracy to the TV show no matter how silly) but I can't help feeling it's a bit derivative. Next Story: Project: Twilight thedefinitearticle63 View profile Like Liked 3 27 September 2024 · 89 words Review by kiraoho Spoilers 1 This review contains spoilers! 15.06.2022 Meh. Charles Darwin is in this story and he comes up with a theory of evolution throughout the course of the play. It is realised with a subtlety of a brick. Also Homo Sapiens were created by one Silurian guy, like kettle. Not naturally evolved. Specifically crafted. One could even say, divinely. A strange idea to put into the same story as Darwin's Origin of Species creation. As for the plot, it's forgettable and skippable. The villain is a bleak evil scientist. The culmination is a stuff of kindergartens. 1/5 kiraoho View profile Like Liked 1 Show All Reviews (10) Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating221 members 3.44 / 5 GoodReads AVG. Rating458 votes 3.54 / 5 The Time Scales AVG. Rating252 votes 3.70 / 5 Member Statistics Listened 380 Favourited 16 Reviewed 10 Saved 4 Skipped 0 Quotes Add Quote Link to Quote Favourite Tags: Funny EVELYN: We’re on the Galápagos Islands! And that is a Galápagos tortoise! DOCTOR: Well actually, Galápagos is a Spanish word for tortoise. EVELYN: Oh? DOCTOR: They named the islands after them, you see. The Tortoise Islands, which I suppose means that that is, in fact, a tortoise tortoise! And that’s something else I’ve tort-oise. — Bloodtide Show All Quotes (2) Open in new window
