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Overview

Released

February 2007

Written by

Dan Abnett

Runtime

130 minutes

Time Travel

Future

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Glasst City, Nocturne

Synopsis

On the human colony planet Nocturne, there is suffering and blight, tragic symptoms of an ages-old war. Nevertheless, Nocturne is also one of the Doctor's favourite places in all of time and space, because it is here that a late, great flowering of human art — the High Renaissance — is taking place.

He has been back here, many times. It is a place of music and art which he finds inspirational and uplifting. It is a place he wants to share with Ace and Hex. It's always been a safe haven for him, a world of friends and laughter.

But with strict Martial Law imposed on the front-line city, and the brutal scourge of interstellar warfare vicing the system, how safe can anyone really be?

There is a note of death in the wild, midnight wind...

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This has all the makings of something good, and then it isn't. I enjoy having the Doctor meet characters he already has an established history with, but having them be so dull and uninteresting really makes me question why the Doctor keeps coming back. I did quite like the idea of treating some made up future time as if it was a proper period of history in the same way the Victorian period or the Renaissance are.

The idea of a music monster is a good one for audio but I don't think they did as much as they could have with it. There's some nice emotional beats but all in all I think this story was a bit of a miss.


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Fiquei surpreso ao ver muitos fãs desqualificando esse áudio. Realmente, o enredo de “Nocturne” não possui pontos ou motivos que levam considera-lo uma obra prima da BIG FINISH. Além disso, ele vem com uma temática repetitiva na Time Line dos áudios do 7° Doctor, onde mais uma vez temos uma história antiguerra tendo envolvimento do Time Lord obviamente junto aos seus companions Ace e Hex. Mesmo sendo bem básica, ao meu ver a escrita “Dan Abnett” não apresentou pontos baixos e questionáveis que levassem a uma desqualificação de sua obra, o escritor faz o simples (feijão com arroz rsrs) entregando apenas um BOM áudio rotineiro da linha Main Range. Confesso que de início me espantei e subestimei um pouco o conceito central que envolve uma “melodia assassina”, mais à frente vemos que na pratica acabou funcionando muito bem inserido a uma ótima trama investigativa contando com ótimos personagens - De quebra, temos uma reflexão muito bonita sobre a natureza da arte e da música, o escritor enfatiza como ela pode sobreviver e até mesmo prosperar em meio a cenários desastrosos (como por exemplo, em uma guerra).
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LILIAN: "Meu querido de uma forma ou outra, tudo ao nosso redor é arte. Os edifícios, o céu, a sonoridade emitida pela música, um pincel molhando na tinta e depois a tela."

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