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Overview

Released

Sunday, December 14, 2003

Written by

Robert Shearman

Runtime

90 minutes

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Companion cloned, Experimental format, Lost the TARDIS

Story Arc (Potential Spoilers!)

Divergent Universe

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Divergent Universe, Bortresoye, Interzone

Synopsis

Once upon a time...

There were two friends, and together they travelled the cosmos. They thwarted tyrants and defeated monsters, they righted wrongs wherever they went. They explored the distant future and the distant past, new worlds and galaxies, places beyond imagining.

But every good story has to come to an end.

With no times or places left to explore, all the two friends have now are each other. But maybe that's one voyage too many. Maybe they'll discover things they'd rather have left undisturbed... hidden away in the suffocating, unfeeling, deafening brightness.

Once upon a time. Far, far away.

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I do think this is the best piece of art, in any medium, ever.


freeze

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insane and extremely messed up audio. as always rob shearman you are the best one to ever do it


doctorwhoisadhd

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This review contains spoilers!

It's annoying that this is as good as everyone says it is.

Body horror? Weird psychological drama? Screwed up codependent relationship? Sound actually utilized as a unique medium instead of just trying to copy a TV story? Most messed-up first kiss I've seen in a while? Cannibalism?

I listened to this for the first time this morning and I don't think I'll be able to stop thinking about it for a while. Gonna read the script and then potentially re-listen in a month or so.

8/Charley are IMO the blueprint for 12/Clara; this is like 8/Charley's version of Heaven Sent.

(And if you wouldn't let our bodies merge in a strange void beyond universes, is it even worth a second date?)


egginawig

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jesus christ, i don’t think my ears will ever be the same


ash.hnt

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This review contains spoilers!

This is exactly what I am talking about when I say we should explore the complicated Emotions the Doctor has towards love.

Anyway, I adore this Audio. Creepy, Beautiful, Bitter, Emotional and a Story about so much. Shearman is always a top-notch Writer, and this is yet another Masterpiece to add to his Collection of Top-Notch Stories.
Exploring this weird Realm in the Way this Story does make you excited but also sightly terrified what this Divergent Universe has in store for. And while none of those latter one hit the same strengths as this one does, it’s just so good. This Story is just made for Audio, not for books, not for TV, just Audios. McGann and Fisher are excellent in their Roles here. They bring out every Emotion, every Revelation in a superb way.
Not to mention McGann’s EXCELLENT Narration about a King and how his Kingdom slowly decayed. Not to mention how well we use the Medium for some ‘Jumpscares’, some of them really got me.
I know this will be a unique one, but I was truly in disbelief when I heard for the first time
(NSFW Warning for this short Sentence:) that they were eating a Corpse like what !
The Sound Design is just superb! Just superb work all around, I could go now about what the Story says about Art, Life, Death or even Love, but I will spare that for some other time.


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CHARLEY: Come on. Take my hand.

DOCTOR: But we can see now. We don’t need to hold on to each other.

CHARLEY: I know. Take my hand anyway.

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