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Overview

Released

July 2006

Written by

Nicholas Briggs

Runtime

119 minutes

Time Travel

Past, Future

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Spaceship

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

The Valiant, Time's End, Earth, England, London

Synopsis

2197: The fighter-carrier Valiant has just crossed Pluto's orbital path. Its captain is expecting trouble from alien raiders. She is not expecting the Doctor and Evelyn.

She does not believe members of her crew when they say they can hear an ancient bell ringing. A bell that strikes terror into their hearts.

1952: The Turret Class locomotive Ivy Lee is hurtling through the night. On board, there should only be two passengers: both of them carrying documents from the War Office.

But now, there are also two unexpected visitors on the train. One is the guard with ill-fitting trousers, the other is an excessively dotty old lady.

The Doctor and Evelyn have arrived and "Time's End" is approaching.

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Olha eu costumo sempre ser critico as escritas do Nicholas Briggs, mas a de “The Nowhere Place” não vem ao caso – Situada em duas localizações tendo seu destino inicial causado por um som de um sino levando sua TARDIS a uma nave futurística, o Doutor e Evelyn se encontram em um cenário onde pessoas estão sendo atraídas/possuídas por uma força maior sendo jogadas para fora de uma porta misteriosa que os leva a um vasto nada. Questões são levantadas...Para onde essas pessoas estão indo? Em direção a que?? Ao nada ou a morte?? Assim é criando um cenário incrivelmente enigmático, claustrofóbico, sufocante, arrepiante e ultra imersivo onde cada minuto do enredo se torna imperdível. Agora falando do 6° Doutor, muitos não sabem que seu personagem sofreu drásticas alterações em sua personalidade nos áudios - Tendo em vista do tão polêmico e rejeitado que foi em seu período na série de tv, a BIG FINISH resolveu fazer com que o personagem do Colin Baker passasse pelo mesmo processo de “se tornar uma boa pessoa” que o 1° e 12° Doutor passaram para que os mesmo equívocos polêmicos não fossem repetidos em seus materiais oficiais. E por incrível que pareça, a sexta encarnação se torna a mais bonzinha de todas – Confesso que isso me incomoda um pouco em determinadas histórias, eu gostaria de ver mais um pouco dos traços do personagem apresentados na série clássica, sendo bombástico, explosivo sempre guiando suas ações para um caminho mais extremo com seu ego inflado, sendo de fato um BAD BOY. Mas em The Nowhere Place esse Doutor toma atitudes heroicas incríveis te transmitindo uma enorme confiança, o enxergando como um herói digno, tem uma cena envolvendo a Evelyn que me arrepiou todo. Em resumo, The Nowhere Place é aquela típica história confinada que consegue ser surpreendente fazendo muito com tão poucos elementos em mãos.


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This is such a bizarre story, I can't really think of any stories to compare it to. Maybe Midnight? But even then that's only really at the start. I will say, this is one of the more compelling mysteries I've heard in a Doctor Who story. It brings up a really interesting idea that there were countless other sentient species that evolved on Earth. But not like Silurians in that they evolved and existed in a different time to humans but instead that they were ocmpletely erased from time. It's really interesting and genuinely quite a scary thought, that there are completely different species that evolved like us, but nothing like us.

There's a point where the Doctor goes back in time, to a midnight train heading to some military base in the middle of the Cold War. This is a very atmospheric setting with the constant sound of the train, we've got a fairly small cast and I'm not sure how to explain it other than it feels cozy. On this train is some sort of scientist, not a famous one or anything but apparently he's idly sketched the basis for humanity's ability to travel the stars. It's a fascinating idea and it's likened to Da Vinci sketching helicopters and things like that. The reason this whole bit is in the story is because one of the many species erased from time has been preventing every other Earth species from travelling beyond the solar system and has now hitched a ride through Evelyn in the TARDIS so that it can go back and destroy these sketches, thus preventing humanity from achieving interstellar travel.

I thought the ending was a bit simple for stakes of this magnitude, but I don't particularly mind it and the rest of the story builds up such a compelling and haunting mystery that it could've ended with just about anything and I wouldn't have minded. Definitely one of the most inventive stories I've heard in ages.


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