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Overview

Released

Monday, December 18, 2000

Written by

Nicholas Briggs

Runtime

121 minutes

Time Travel

Future, Alternate Reality

Story Arc (Potential Spoilers!)

Dalek Empire

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Kansas, Earth, England, London, Skaro, USA

Synopsis

In the 22nd century, the Daleks have occupied planet Earth. By the 43rd century, only a handful of humans survive. Still further into the distant future, a Thal scientist must choose whether to betray his heritage, or see the universe destroyed.

When the Doctor and Nyssa find themselves trapped in this deadly chain of events, they must decide who their real enemies are. What is certain, however, is that no matter where the Doctor turns... his arch enemies, the Daleks, will be waiting for him.

What could possibly be worse than that? The Mutant Phase...

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What absolute fun! A genuinely dark and tragic story. Every part builds to more edge-of-your-seat storytelling. It was a brilliant listening experience and I would urge this to be a must for listening. I love the simplicity of this story and the rippling effect it has. I can only imagine how amazing this would have been as a TV story even back in the 80s.


KieranCooper

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An enjoyable entry to a set of stories I haven't massively enjoyed so far. The call backs, and building on a previous story was good, I was interested and invested in characters, and enjoyed the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa dynamic. Still, not as exciting as most Dalek stories, but this was an improvement on Big Finish's Dalek entries so far.


joeymapes21

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probably the most average dalek outing ive listened to, its just. There, honestly


megaminxwin

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Seria de um bem danado para as futuras histórias Daleks seguirem os exemplos de The Mutant Phase e The Genocide Machine que fogem do convencional evitando os clichês e desenrolares previsíveis – O Doutor e Nyssa voltam para a Terra no século 22 dominada pelos Daleks com poucos humanos sobreviventes. Um vírus altamente danoso começa a assombrar os vilões podendo custar até mesmo a existência de sua espécie, chamado “A Fase Mutante” ou se preferir “O Estado Mutante” é o suficiente para as criaturas aprisionarem o Doutor e sua TARDIS em um corredor temporal o forçando a ajuda-los. Isso faz com que os Daleks se tornam uma peça muito mais interessante estando totalmente vulneráveis, deixa aqueles clichês de lado que na maioria das vezes envolve um plano de dominação em alta escala ou uma arma destruidora de planetas - Sim de fato talvez essa história deveria ter uma minutagem menor como muitos criticam, mesmo com isso o que preenche esse meio tempo (que poderia ser cortado), acaba sendo satisfatório e muito benéfico para o desenvolvimento e envolvimento dos ouvintes com os personagens secundários que de meros NPCs (podemos dizer assim haha) Ptolem e Ganatus crescem de forma absurda no enredo. [⚠ SPOILERS] O conceito das “vespas assassinas” são bem sacadas com uma explicação bem convincente, devido à mutação geneticamente modificada os enxames se tornaram letais, uma ameaça até mesmo para uma raça superior e poderosa, os Daleks, o que faz sentido o tempo altera coisas já estabelecidas, e infelizmente já tivemos vários casos de vírus dominando uma raça “”superior””, se pesarmos bem é algo que poderia facilmente ter sido visto como algo bastante ridículo, mas felizmente a ideia é muito bem reproduzida trazendo desenrolares sólidos seguindo uma ótima estrutura convencendo seu ouvinte a aceita-la. [⚠ FIM DE SPOILERS] Mas infelizmente The Mutant Phase não se mostrou indiferente de suas histórias anteriores (The Land Of The Dead e Winter For The Adept), apresentando o mesmo diagnostico de desandar em um certo momento... Isso porque, em sua última parte Nicholas Briggs causa enormes confusões bem timey wimey envolvendo paradoxos, corredores temporais, paradoxos interrompendo anomalias temporais e bla bla...uma confusão danada que requer muita atenção. Mas no meio disso tudo o que me chamou mais atenção nesse bloco final, foi quando questionado por Nyssa, o Doutor explica de uma forma esquisitíssima que essa situação se difere a da Morte do Adric no que se disse em voltar no tempo para salva-lo, sinceramente eu não entendi foi nada. No geral The Mutant Phase é o que mais desejo para as futuras histórias Daleks, menos “pega pega Dalek” e mais conceitos e formas diferentes de incluírem os saleiros em tramas realmente instigantes.


KnuppMello

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This audio had all the markings of something I wasn't going to enjoy.  It is a script by Nicholas Briggs, which usually means it is a story I'm either going to really love or really hate.  It's part of the Dalek Empire storyline which in general I haven't connected with much at all.  In fact, The Mutant Phase is the only chapter of that loose arc I've actually very much enjoyed so far.  And it is generally not very well liked among the fan community.

Yet I found myself enjoying every part of The Mutant Phase and happily following along through the adventure.  It felt like a story that very much kept the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa active and engaged with the events at hand.  I really liked how the Daleks reacted from this genetic disease of sorts spreading through them.  I thought it was well done and fun how they were panicking about this but not really willing to seek out help, either.  We don't often see these villains on the back foot like this - at a distinct disadvantage and in a fairly weak position.  It was very well done on the whole, leaving it the strongest aspect of the audio.

I mostly liked how it was all resolved through a paradox, to a degree, although that part is also where Mutant Phase is at its weakest - being an entertaining enough novelty while also being a little overblown and this still being early for Big Finish to rely this much on sound effects in resolving the plot.  Still, I did enjoy it, and would definitely recommend The Mutant Phase.


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