A super mindf**ky, machiavellian scheme from the fantastic 7 and Ace again. Tennant plays a genuinely vile villain here, and all the characters are fleshed out incredibly. Also, another fantastic Big Finish Pseudo-Historical!

I think I mentioned it a while back that I recently relistened to this Audio, why this one, you might ask. Well I think I did a pretty poor Job on commenting on it and I really wanted to ‘fix’ that. Having now relistened to this one, I am afraid I have to say: It clicked with me even less. I already mentioned the first Time around that there was some ‘meh’ Aspect to this Story. On its own, it’s very solid. There is frankly nothing wrong with it. Aldred and McCoy are great. Klein is an interesting Character, even if she really makes an Impact only in later Stories. I like some Twists and Turns. And of course David (Tennnat) plays it very well. The Story itself is also solid and takes it subject seriously, the Dialogue has some great Bits to it.
And yet.. I just kinda don’t click with it. And I am not even sure why. On Paper this has a lot for it going, I love a good Historicals, I love 7 & Ace and this Story and really outside a lesser Sound Design, it has a lot for it going. Still, I don’t find myself going: “Yeah that was a great one” and more a “Yeah that was okay I guess”.
To be perfectly honest, I am not sure if I explained it all that well, but I thought I still share this Thought Process, if only to get my complicated Thoughts out for it and give it a more fair shoot.

This story rushed by, despite being a 4 parter. I know of Klein but I knew nothing about her, so I was pretty shocked at what she was and how this story transpired with her. Curious what's going to happen with her in future. David Tennant acted brilliantly as the despicable Kurtz in this. Some great scenes with Ace in the prison, and overall a really good story.

you dont really expect a timey-wimey story from a nazi pow camp but this delivers and it delivers HARD. GOD i hate klein and kurtz and the rest of them sooo much

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David Tennant is in this... as a Nazi. He must've been quite desperate to get on Doctor Who huh. Still he plays the role really well, as he tends to when it comes to villains.

There's a lot of things to like about this story. There's a character from an alternate timeline where the Nazis won, which gives us some really great discussions about changing time and the "correct" history. Klein is quite an interesting character in general, I'm glad to hear that there'll be more with her later down the line.

Ace gets a really solid role here. While the Doctor is out scheming and doing whatever Ace is trapped in Colditz castle trying to escape. She blends in quite nicely with all these soldier types and there's a really good underlying theme of Ace "growing up" which is cemented at the end by her dropping the name Ace and going for Dorothy McShane instead. It'll be interesting to see where that leads.

Really good stuff, another win for 7 it seems.

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