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Overview

Released

April 2004

Written by

Stephen Cole

Cover Art by

Lee Binding

Directed by

Gary Russell

Runtime

76 minutes

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Murder Mystery, Robots, Time Loop

Synopsis

"It's too late... time is coming for us!"

In a climate of unease and mistrust, the great time-travelling powers of the universe are holding an historic temporal summit. The meeting will take place on a planetoid impervious to outside attack or internal subversion.

But while President Romana walks a knife-sharp political tightrope into dangerous territory, Leela and K9 find themselves attending the summit in unexpected roles. They are hunting for evidence of Free Time activity, but find instead terrors of a different kind - time and time again...

What impossibility stalks the planetoid? Who is manipulating time? Can Leela and Romana discover the truth - or will they find themselves sent back to square one for all eternity?

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I liked a lot of the concepts in this story and the political side of it all but i have to criticize the way leela was treated here. It was very uncomfortable listening to the exotic dancer stuff. Yes, it was portrayed as something that should make the listener uncomfortable but at times it felt as though Leela was the butt of the joke. This entire story was just a bit painful to listen to because i felt so horrible for Leela.
I do love time shenanigans though! The time loop parts were genuinely very interesting and I’m excited to listen to the next story.


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The time loop aspect is done very well and is extremely fun, and I was much more hooked by this than the previous episode. A murder mystery in a time loop is such a cool concept executed greatly.

I do think the real criminals should have been much better foreshadowed, while the red herring was made too obviously a red herring.

The biggest crime though is, as everyone else said, the blatant misogyny. Also hearing "slut" and "b*tch" in Doctor Who just feels wrong to me lol


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Leela and Romana are brilliant in this one in my opinion and especially as a character piece on Leela it’s quite interesting. I do think this is an intriguing narrative to explore the objectification Leela faces, but I do feel as if she’s a bit too naive for it to really work well. With a few minor tweaks this could have been brilliant. Nonetheless, Leela’s intelligence and Romana’s trust in her carry this audio. Also I wasn’t quite expecting this series to be quite so explicit(for lack of a better word), but I like it. There’s again some political intrigue which is very cool, but mildly hindered by the fact that I keep forgetting who’s who. And it uses time loops and quite brilliantly too, I think.
All in all, a strong story with strong characters and some problems, a bit weaker than the first for me though.


Jae

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Oh boi… this one was one I sat for a while, was it bad? No.
Was it good? Also, no.
Many already explained it quite well, while the Story itself is good, how Leela is handled is quite off-putting and feels very much like they forgot how smart Leela is and well putting her in this Situation is quite off-putting.
While the Time Travelling Aspect of it all and the Idea on the Paper isn’t really bad, I think the Script needed a few reworking when it comes to the whole exotic dancer angel.
For me, this is a perfectly well-made story in its execution. Louise and our Leads are great in it and do a great Job. There are some great Scenes, especially with Lalla and Louise. The Side Cast does a decent, solid Job, nothing too outstanding but nothing terrible.
I appreciate that Gallifrey early on tries to touch on more explicit matters, but I think it was done in a very mixed Way.
This one is a tricky one to properly articulate, all I will say is to give the Reviews from others a Read, they bring up plenty of great Points!


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How Leela was used in the story was fairly off-putting.


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LEELA: But will we not seem out of place at your summit? I warn you, I am not wearing your shiny, chafing city-clothes for seven days.

ROMANA: I don’t want you to. This is an undercover assignment.

LEELA: Oh?

ROMANA: And you will blend in beautifully just as you are.

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