Stories Audio Drama Big Finish Main Range 151-200 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 3 reviews 10 April 2025 · 49 words Review by Mattie1711 Spoilers This review contains spoilers! Honestly this was such a fun story,so meta,and I love it for it,Flip is so good in this and I really like Six in it,probably the best of 6/Flip run and I really love the ending haha,also the return of food machine and Visualizer,8/10 Mattie1711 View profile Like Liked 0 19 January 2025 · 231 words Review by KnuppMello Spoilers 1 This review contains spoilers! Original (Brazilian Portuguese) Translation (English) 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! Wow! I just came out of a crazy and fun trip - In his second adventure, Flip is thrown into a kind of machine that reproduces an alternative reality show cast with real actors who have been duplicated and generated by code. It is interesting to note that John Dorney's excellent concept is based on a common thought that most of us had when we were children: What if the characters from any work of fiction really existed somewhere? What if they became aware of the fact that we created them? In addition to his concept being very well applied during the plot, it still joins great insights and comedic touches with several very well plotted twists, full of great characters making their 2 hours of audio imperceptible to the listener. Even with this, I have negatives to highlight: Part 4, for example, which besides presenting a frantic rush to resolve everything at once, fails in the explanation of how a situation that happens with Flip during the story was reversed (no details, to avoid spoilers). Besides not convincing me, I was confused without really understanding what happened. Apart from that, The Fourth Wall is an incredibly funny story, as it mercilessly plays with cliches always seen in science fiction plots while making serious points about writing. 6th Doctor: "Fiction has power, Doctor Shepherd" I recommend it! (Translation generated by AI, so mistakes are possible). KnuppMello View profile Like Liked 1 31 December 2024 · 335 words Review by thedefinitearticle63 Spoilers 3 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 3