The Last Day at Work · Short Trips

Constable Bernard Whittam is in for a special evening. Finally retiring from a lifetime in the police force, he's celebrating with friends, family and the woman he loves. It's all perfect. Apart from the noise in his head, the wheezing, groaning noise that has haunted his entire life. That and the unusual gatecrashers.

It's going to be a night to remember...

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Jamie McCrimmon

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Оповідання з найцікавішими, як на мене, сюжетним концептом з усіх переможців The Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trip Opportunity. Що якщо ТАРДІС в своїх намаганнях замаскуватися змогла створити живу істоту? І якби ця істота реагувала на потребу знову стати цілим з машиною? Ти і чи є вона живою істотою взагалі?

Це дійсно шикарне оповідання, котрому трошечки не вистачає знаків/хронометражу. Варто було трошечки більше зануритись в переживання Бернарда, трошки зануритись в тему “Що робить живу істоту живою, а людину людиною?”. Тут є величезний потенціал для цього, проте поза цим оповідання лишається шикарним.

A narrative with the most interesting, in my opinion, plot concept among all the winners of The Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trip Opportunity. What if the TARDIS, in its efforts to camouflage itself, was able to create a living creature? And what if this creature reacted to the need to become whole with the machine again? Are you and is it a living being at all?

It's really a splendid narrative, which just slightly lacks in duration/detail. It would have been good to delve a bit more into Bernard's experiences, a bit more into the theme of "What makes a living creature alive, and a human a human?". There's tremendous potential here, but outside this, the narrative remains splendid.

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

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Very odd story about, of all things, the cop who appeared very briefly at the start of the very first episode with no lines. It's... something. The twist was pretty interesting, at least.

B. Maybe C.

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Review last edited on 14-03-25

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I’m not sure every fragment of the show’s history needs to be examined with this level of minuscule detail. The story of the policeman in the opening titles of An Unearthly Child is a pedestrian one for me. It wants to be very literary and thoughtful, but is ends up being dull in my opinion.