Stories Audio Drama Big Finish Main Range Main Range Episode 52 Scherzo 1 image Overview Characters How to Listen Reviews 17 Statistics Quotes 6 Overview Released Sunday, December 14, 2003 Written by Robert Shearman Publisher Big Finish Productions 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. 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 Eighth Doctor Charlotte Pollard Sound creatures Show All Characters (3) How to listen to Scherzo: Big Finish Audio Scherzo 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 17 reviews 2 March 2025 · 14 words Review by freeze 1 I do think this is the best piece of art, in any medium, ever. freeze View profile Like Liked 1 2 March 2025 · 19 words Review by doctorwhoisadhd 2 insane and extremely messed up audio. as always rob shearman you are the best one to ever do it doctorwhoisadhd View profile Like Liked 2 17 February 2025 · 121 words Review by egginawig Spoilers 2 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 View profile Like Liked 2 9 February 2025 · 13 words Review by ash.hnt 2 jesus christ, i don’t think my ears will ever be the same ash.hnt View profile Like Liked 2 1 February 2025 · 242 words Review by RandomJoke Spoilers 3 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. RandomJoke View profile Like Liked 3 Show All Reviews (17) Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating385 members 4.70 / 5 GoodReads AVG. Rating576 votes 4.19 / 5 Member Statistics Listened 582 Favourited 219 Reviewed 17 Saved 12 Skipped 0 Quotes Add Quote Link to Quote Favourite 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. — Scherzo Show All Quotes (6) Open in new window