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TARDIS Guide

Overview

Released

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Written by

Eddie Robson

Runtime

58 minutes

Time Travel

Future

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Robots

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Tromesis, Earth, Switzerland

Synopsis

The TARDIS lands in the city of Tromesis on Earth – but it’s a world far from the one that the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe recognize.

The buildings are ruined, the streets deserted. And against the devastation they see a ghostly mirror image of another place – the city as it was before disaster hit.

People vanish here, and huge metal birds attack from the sky.

Can the Doctor find the future, in a place that doesn’t have one?

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3 reviews
I'm surprised I wasn't more into this. It's this type of mysterious setting that I'm usually really into, but I couldn't fully get into it. Still a good story, though!
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Azurillkirby

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It took me a lot of listens to get my head around this one, which was due to a combination of things, primarily being very distracted by work stress. Also I don't think there was enough variation in Frazer Hines' voices, so getting a sense of multiple characters being there was not easy. Finally, though I get the premise (at last), I don't think that premise works so well on audio.

The crew lands in Switzerland at some point in the future. I got no sense of Switzerland from the audio, it was just some city... Anyway, the city has two versions existing simultaneously, one where things have fallen to ruin, one where people haven't caved to despair. This is the result of some experiment, we find out at the end. The shifts between the two versions might have looked good on screen, but I never got much feel for it in the audio. The Hawkers, big metal birds that envelop people and turn box-shaped might look great onscreen, but conceptually they make no sense whatsoever, and what explanation we get for them is weak.

There's a mildly interesting idea here about the world you live in being the one you decide to live in, but the execution leaves something to be desired.


kevinwho

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sadly this story I found really hard to get into which is a shame as the ending is really good


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