Stories Audio Drama Big Finish Main Range Main Range Episode 157 The Fourth Wall 1 image Back to Story 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 2 reviews 19 January 2025 · 250 words Review by KnuppMello Spoilers This review contains spoilers! Uaau! Acabei de sair de uma trip maluca e divertidissima - Em sua segunda aventura, Flip é jogada para dentro de uma espécie de máquina que reproduz um reality show alternativo escalado com atores reais que foram duplicados e gerados por código. É interessante notar que o excelente conceito de John Dorney é baseado em um pensamento comum que a maioria de nós tivemos quando éramos criança: E se os personagens de qualquer obra de ficção realmente existissem em algum lugar? E se eles se conscientizassem do fato de que os criamos? Além de seu conceito ser muito bem aplicado durante o enredo, ainda se uni a ótimas sacadas e pitadas cômicas com várias reviravoltas muito bem tramadas, repleto de ótimos personagens fazendo com que as suas 2 horas de áudio sejam imperceptíveis ao ouvinte. Mesmo com isso tenho pontos negativos a destacar: Sua parte 4 por exemplo, que além de apresentar uma pressa frenética em resolver tudo de uma vez, falha na explicação de como foi revertida uma situação que acontece com a Flip durante a história (sem detalhes, para evitar Spoilers). Além de não me convencer, fiquei confuso sem entender direito o que houve. Tirando isso, The Fourth Wall é uma história incrivelmente engraçada, pois brinca impiedosamente com cliches sempre vistos em enredos de ficção científica juntamente fazendo pontos sérios sobre a escrita. 6° Doctor: "A ficção tem poder, Doutora Shepherd" Recomendo! KnuppMello View profile Like Liked 0 31 December 2024 · 347 words Review by thedefinitearticle63 Spoilers 1 This review contains spoilers! This is part of a series of reviews of Doctor Who in chronological timeline order. Previous Story: The Curse of Davros This is easily one of the funnest stories I've done in ages. I love the ideas in this story, playing with the concepts of fiction and reality while making fun of all sorts of cheesy television tropes. This story is absolutely a comedy but it's not without it's genuinely heartfelt and even chilling moments. There's a lot of technobabble at the start which made it a bit difficult to understand but I figured it out eventually. I found it a bit of an odd choice to "kill off" Flip halfway into the story after she had been seperated from the Doctor for so long already. This resulted in them not really getting any time together beyond the opening and ending scenes. Still, from what we did get of Flip she's a very interesting character, she's not afraid to call others out and she has a strong sense of doing the right thing. I found the most compelling character here to be the cartoonishly evil Lord Krarn. It's funny how a character designed to be one-dimensional within the actual narrative has so much depth. He has a chilling scene where he gets revenge on his "creator", the sleazy businessman Augustus Scullop. Both actors here are fantastic and this scene alone makes the whole story for me. The ending was quite clever in my opinion, using the reality-altering machine to create a handy little machine that "destroys all fictional beings". It reminded me of those play-fights you have as a kid where you keep coming up with loopholes to avoid or survive blows. Even though I'm not the biggest fan of having Flip dead for half the story it did admittedly lead to a really cool scene. Overall, a very competently written, decently funny story. My only complaint is that I still don't know as much about Flip as I'd like to. Next Story: Wirrn Isle thedefinitearticle63 View profile Like Liked 1