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Released

Monday, June 23, 2003

Written by

Mark Wright, Cavan Scott

Cover Art by

Lee Binding

Directed by

Gary Russell

Runtime

105 minutes

Story Type

Multi-Doctor

Time Travel

Past, Future

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Doctor cloned, Doctor Doppelgänger

Story Arc (Potential Spoilers!)

The Forge Trilogy

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Dartmoor, Devon, Earth, England, Norway

Synopsis

"I'll survive Doctor. I always do."

Unfinished business.

A frightened girl is stalked in a land of eternal night.

A hunter longs for recognition and power.

A traveller in time returns to correct the mistakes of the past and faces a danger that could rob him of his future. Unless his future intervenes.

And in the shadows stands Nimrod. Waiting...

Welcome to the Forge.

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two for the price of one! and god they are brutal. i cannot blame evelyn in the slightest for this being The One To Break The Friendship


megaminxwin

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I prefer this one over its former Entry (Project Twilight) it still suffers from some of the same Problems, such as its Nature of being graphic at times, that said it's much less prevalent here. I really enjoyed the 7 Part of this Story, is it perfect? Not at all. But the whole Idea of the Clone Doctor is quite a fun one, which is used rather well, even if it's a bit stupid. The former Part with 6 and Evelyn still does put this Audio for me.

A very messy Audio with some great Things to it, but still I can't really call myself a Fan of it.


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Project: Lazarus is a good story (or, really, pair of stories). The first is nice and emotional, and my favourite of the two, while the second is still good with some interesting concepts. The Forge is developed quite a lot from its first appearance in Project: Twighlight, and I think this is largely done well.


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Just before starting this story, I mentioned that this was next up on my listening order in the Guide server, and all the Project: Lazarus haters crawled out of the woodwork and told me how awful it is. Now that I've listened, I have to say - I can't agree. I largely enjoyed this story (although I can see how it might not be for everyone), and am giving it 4 stars. Spoilers throughout.

Loved this line from Evelyn: "Just trying to lighten the mood. It's what I do!" It was a great little nod to the role of the companion, but especially of Evelyn's role in darker stories. The "Sixth Doctor" (Lazarus)'s unsettling loyalty to Nimrod and insistence that he wouldn't lie to him... This is some toxic parent/child relationship material if I ever saw it... Gonna go see if I can find any fics about this hehe (UPDATE: there are only four (4) fics on AO3 about Nimrod. Someone needs to go fix this immediately!!) Also, that line about Evelyn never forgiving Sixie for what happened to Cassie, "right up to the end", nearly gave me a heart attack - I rushed to tardis.wiki to make sure this wasn't her last story! Cassie's death here felt brutal and out of place - which brings me to my negatives.

There is some quite gritty and disturbing stuff that doesn't really go anywhere - it's not bad, persay, and I don't dislike it, I just feel like this all could have been done with a little more purpose. Similarly, the idea of "just following orders" crops up - the Forge is a military operation. It has soldiers, including one (Frith) who would make a great focaliser - why didn't they go harder on the nazi comparison? The whole thing just feels like a missed opportunity. Also, we never get to hear the Huldran's side of things - they are a silent victim, never allowed their own voices. This is I think my biggest problem with the story. Half the story is supposed to centre around them and their war with the Forge, and yet I barely know a thing about them! The story also  occasionally suffers from "telling" instead of "showing". Usually it doesn't damage the story, but when Frith died and the only way we knew is because the Doctor said (rather too casually), that he must not have made it into the lift, that really took the story down for me.

Creating the world of the Forge has been done really well, with the relationships between the characters being believable and making sense in a way that makes me feel for every one of them. Well, almost... I admit, I cannot wrap my head around Nimrod. I'm not sure I want to. There's a nice use of time lord telepathy. And, oh... raining again... Nice use of weather and circularity there. Ooh - "Maybe it's time I went home..." HELLO???  Foreshadowing at the end there, liked that - the story isn't over.

Despite it's flaws (the telling instead of showing, the lack of purpose to it's violent themes, etc), I enjoyed this story overall. It never lost my interest, and made good use of some of my favourite concepts (especially around themes of the self). 3.5-4/5 (averaged to a '4').


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Segunda parte da trilogia da The Forge - Em "Project: Lazarus" temos o famoso formato de 2 em 1, o áudio é dividido em duas história ambas são interligadas, porém ainda são histórias soltas. O primeiro enredo é legalzinho até - ele envolve o 6° Doutor descobrindo uma possível cura para o vampirismo de Cassie, logo temos uma revelação que nos cria boas expectativas, vemos que a vampira sofreu uma lavagem cerebral e se aliou ao Nimrod para ajudá-lo nos projetos da Forge.
Sem saída, o Doutor e Evelyn são levados de helicóptero até a central da Forge, a partir desse ponto a história se divide em dois blocos - O primeiro é o Nimrod apresentando ao Doutor o seu plano, ele pretende tentar extrair o fenômeno da Regeneração de um Senhor do Tempo para aplicar em seus soldados...Timeless Children cof cof cof. Mas o hype morre por aqui mesmo, não acontece nada demais e o Nimrod fracassa em seus planos. Já no segundo bloco é a Evelyn tentando fazer com que Cassie saia dessa hipnose e lembre de seu filho, isso gera um final bem bombástico e chocante.
Agora falando de sua segunda história, basicamente é o 7° Doutor na Forge anos depois da primeira história - Lá ele descobre que Nimrod conseguiu criar clones do 6° Doutor...E é só isso, o Doutor vai lá, descobre o plano e detem...acabou. Nimrod demonstrou ser o que eu já imaginava que seria, um chefe malvadão genérico de um projeto maligno genérico, algo bem superficial.
Ao todo "Project: Lazarus" repete o desempenho de seu antecessor (O Twilight), é um áudio bem regular que não apresenta nada de grandioso, pode se considerar como algo preocupante, pois trata-se da penúltima parte da trilogia então se esperava que "Lazarus" cria-se toda uma estrutura e um hype para a sua conclusão o "Project: Destiny", mas isso não acontece...é algo bem sem sal, nada empolgante, nada interessante.

Second part of The Forge trilogy - In "Project: Lazarus" we have the famous 2-in-1 format, the audio is divided into two stories both of which are interconnected, however, they are still standalone stories. The first plot is quite cool - it involves the 6th Doctor discovering a possible cure for Cassie's vampirism, then we have a revelation that sets good expectations, we see that the vampire has been brainwashed and has joined forces with Nimrod to help him with the projects of the Forge.
With no way out, the Doctor and Evelyn are taken by helicopter to the Forge's headquarters, from that point on the story is divided into two blocks - The first is Nimrod presenting his plan to the Doctor, he intends to try to extract the phenomenon of Regeneration from a Time Lord to apply in his soldiers...Timeless Children cough cough cough. But the hype dies right there, nothing much happens and Nimrod fails in his plans. In the second block, Evelyn tries to get Cassie out of this hypnosis and remember her son, which leads to a very explosive and shocking ending.
Now talking about his second story, basically it's the 7th Doctor at the Forge years after the first story - There he discovers that Nimrod managed to create clones of the 6th Doctor...And that's it, the Doctor goes there, uncovers the plan and stops it...end of story. Nimrod proved to be what I had already imagined he would be, a generic evil boss of a generic evil project, something quite superficial.
Overall, "Project: Lazarus" repeats the performance of its predecessor (The Twilight), it's a quite regular audio that doesn't present anything grandiose, it can be considered worrying, as it is the penultimate part of the trilogy so it was expected that "Lazarus" would build a whole structure and hype for its conclusion "Project: Destiny", but this doesn't happen...it's something quite bland, not exciting, not interesting.

(Translation generated by AI, so mistakes are possible).


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(The Doctor is humming as he tweaks the Tardis controls. Door opens and closes.)

EVELYN: Good morning, Doctor. Good morning, Evelyn. I say, I like your new cardigan. Very fetching. Hmm. Well, I've made us some breakfast. It's nothing much, just some scrambled eggs, bacon, some toast, freshly brewed tea. Only took me a few minutes to rustle up. No bother at all. It's not as though it was your turn or anything. I keep meaning to ask you how the kitchen restocks itself. Every morning there are exactly six eggs and a fresh pint of milk in the fridge. And if I didn't know better, I'd say the bread was freshly baked too. You don't keep nipping out to the Co-Op when I'm asleep, do you? Doctor!

DOCTOR: Hmm? Oh. Oh, good morning, Evelyn. I say, I like your new cardigan. Very fetching.

EVELYN: Sometimes you amaze me.

DOCTOR: Oh, good. Because I stopped amazing myself two centuries ago. Sorry, I'm a bit distracted this morning. Ooo, tea. Lovely. Four sugars?

EVELYN: Of course. Just the way you like it.

(Drinks, smacks lips.)

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