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Released

Monday, July 15, 2013

Written by

Nicholas Briggs

Runtime

78 minutes

Time Travel

Future

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Fortune II

Synopsis

'The raw power of the very fabric of reality itself. And you dare to think you can conquer it?'

Cuthbert's plan for the Proxima System is reaching its final phase.

The Doctor and Romana have been separated. The Doctor is aiding the Proximan fight-back. Romana and K9 are prisoners of the Daleks.

And as the countdown to the opening of the Quantum Gateway begins, the Daleks reveal their true intentions.

Note: This adventure continues from Doctor Who: The Dalek Contract

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É chegado o final da 2° Temporada do Fourth Doctor Adventures, infelizmente a última história da Mary Tamm e felizmente o primeiro encontro de K9 com os Daleks.
Eu estaria mentindo se chegasse aqui e te falasse que essa é uma história Dalek diferenciada, não...não é. Na verdade ela é cheia de ideias tradicionais já muito conhecidas pelos fãs da série, o Doutor sendo o sábio salvador que guia e compartilha seus conhecimentos para derrotar os Daleks, um grupo de rebeldes que luta contra os Daleks, um vilão que faz um acordo com os Daleks e depois acaba quebrando a cara, o Doutor discursando em um "face to face" com o Dalek Supreme. Além disso, quando analisamos ao todo sua estrutura percebemos que ela possui uma problemática tão simples mais tão simples, que fica nítido o quanto seu passo a passo o quanto sua narrativa foi bem arrastada em vários momentos, sinceramente eu fiquei com um sentimento de que tudo poderia ter sido bem resolvido e bem aplicado em apenas 1 parte.
Mesmo com isso, ainda acho um Finale bem aceitável e divertido, os Daleks dando de...de...de...defeitooo...exa...exater...exatemi...exaterminateee!!! 🤣🤣 foi bem engraçado, a quebra de clima quando o Doutor se "sacrifica" para resolver uma situação, a conclusão da história a forma como tudo é resolvido é bem empolgante, e o desempenho perfeito do trio Tom Baker, Mary Tamm e John Leeson.


This review contains spoilers!

This is part of a series of reviews of Doctor Who in chronological timeline order.

Previous Story: The Dalek Contract

Rather sadly, this is both Mary Tamm's and Romana I's appearances in the extended timeline, and I'm glad it's happened on a good story.

It's a surprisingly good Dalek story, with plenty of great side characters. Cuthbert is even better in this and he's set up as a good future villain. Romana's reaction to the Doctor's "death" is fairly good and so are that last moments of this audio. It's a good ending to a fun series and, in the extended timeline, Season 16 as a whole.

Next Story: Destiny of the Daleks

Series Review: 9/10

For a series that has 4/7 stories written by Nick Briggs it's surprisingly really good, genuinely there was really only one story I didn't like, the rest ranged from passable to brilliant. I think it's helped that Tom Baker and Mary Tamm have excellent chemistry on audio and there were some genuinely interesting concepts throughout the series.

Extended Timeline Season Review: 9.5/10

In the extended timeline, Season 16 goes from The Sinestran Kill to The Final Phase with all of televised Season 16 in the middle.

It's not a season without it's faults, the series of 4DAs at the start, with Ann Kelso were very dull, but after that, the televised season and now Series 2 of the 4DAs it's probably been one of my favourite Tom Baker seasons. The Key to Time was a brilliant story arc.

Romana I is one of my favourite companions of 4 so far, beaten only by Leela, so I'm curious to see how Lalla Ward as Romana II will play out. It is sad that as a season this will probably have no more content, due to the unfortunate death of Mary Tamm, but the little we did get made for a fun little trip through time and space.


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CHIDAK: Can't your robot--K9-- can't he move a little bit more quietly?

Romana: K9?

K9: Adopting stealth mode, Mistress.

ROMANA: Why haven't you ever done that before, K9?

K9: No one ever asked, Mistress.