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TARDIS Guide

Overview

Released

Friday, April 11, 2014

Written by

Nicholas Briggs

Runtime

72 minutes

Time Travel

Future

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Robots, Spaceship, Temporal grace

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Moray Rose, Secus

Synopsis

The TARDIS lands in the cargo hold of luxury space cruiser the Moray Rose. The crew and passengers are missing. The agents of Inter-Galaxy Insurance are determined to find out what’s happened and the shadowy Interplanetary Police Inspector Efendi is showing a very particular interest.

Caught up in all this, the Doctor and Leela find themselves facing a horde of metal mantis-like aliens. But throughout it all, Leela is haunted by terrible nightmares and the dawning realization that everything she knows about her life is a lie.

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Strong stuff for Leela but tbh nothing much is given past that


Rock_Angel

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This review contains spoilers!

Já percebi que tenho uma relação de 8 ou 80 com as escritas do Nicholas Briggs, quando há uma história dele pela frente logo espero que pode ser algo que eu goste muito, como pode ser algo que me decepcione com aquele típica escrita bagunçada. Isso vem ao caso em The Evil One, porém se não fosse pelo ótimo aprofundamento na Companion do 4° Doutor, Leela, certamente eu estaria aqui dando uma nota abaixo de 5. Falando de seu enredo, novamente temos uma bagunça somada a alguns elementos esquisitos - O Master se uniu uma espécie de robôs Louva Deus gigantes chamados de Salonu, pelo que entendi o vilão está usando a nanotecnologia para roubar naves e desintegrar os tripulantes. Mas a frente, ele assume o controle da mente Leela colocando a Companion contra o Doutor e fazendo-a acreditar que foi culpada pela morte de seu pai, isso tudo é causado por um sinal telepático vindo de um dispositivo que de alguma forma o Master implantou na TARDIS do Doutor...Sim, isso mesmo que você está pensando...WTF!! KKKKKK
Além desse Plot esquisito, eu achei que o Master do Beevers não recebeu uma devida profundidade como vemos em algumas outras histórias, ele é apenas o vilãozão malvadão com uns "You Will Obey me" daqui e com uns "You Will Obey me" dali.
No final disso tudo, temos uma cena de peso um emocional muito forte, talvez os mais sensíveis derramem lágrimas de seus olhos. Em resumo, por mais que o elenco do áudio apresente atuações maravilhosas, infelizmente seu enredo consegue ser estranho e bem fraco.

I've realised I have an all-or-nothing relationship with Nicholas Briggs' writings; when there's a story of his ahead, I immediately hope it could be something I really like, or it might be something that disappoints me with that typical messy writing. This comes into play in The Evil One, but if it weren't for the great development of the 4th Doctor's companion, Leela, I would certainly be here giving it a rating below 5. Speaking of its plot, we again have a mess mixed with some strange elements - The Master has teamed up with a kind of giant Mantis robots called Salonu, from what I understand the villain is using nanotechnology to steal ships and disintegrate the crew. Later on, he takes control of Leela's mind by making the companion turn against the Doctor and making her believe she was responsible for her father's death, all this is caused by a telepathic signal coming from a device that somehow the Master implanted in the Doctor's TARDIS...Yes, exactly what you're thinking...WTF!! LOL

In addition to this weird plot, I found that Beevers' Master didn't receive the depth we see in some other stories; he is just the big bad villain with a "You Will Obey me" here and a "You Will Obey me" there.

At the end of it all, we have a scene with very strong emotional weight, maybe the most sensitive will shed tears from their eyes. In summary, even though the audio cast presents wonderful performances, unfortunately, its plot is strange and quite weak.

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


KnuppMello

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Like with many of the fourth doctors adventures (at least the early ones that I’ve heard) there is something relatively slight and insubstantial about this story. I enjoyed the rogue employee from the insurance company who makes every effort to help the doctor - whether or not it helps his career. It's a shame he disappears when the master turns up. There is a nice bit of character development at the end for Leela but it’s disconnected from the story.

Another okay script and enjoyable performance from this 4th Doctor Adventure.


15thDoctor

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