Stories Audio Drama Big Finish Main Range Main Range Episode 13 The Shadow of the Scourge 1 image Overview Characters How to Listen Reviews 11 Statistics Quotes 1 Overview Released October 2000 Written by Paul Cornell Publisher Big Finish Productions Runtime 130 minutes Time Travel Future Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) Earth Invasion, Temporal grace Location (Potential Spoilers!) Kent, Earth, England, London Synopsis The Pinehill Crest Hotel in Kent is host to three very different events: a cross-stitch convention, an experiment in time travel and... the summoning of the Scourge. The Seventh Doctor, Bernice and Ace find themselves dealing with a dead body that has come back to life, a mystical symbol that possesses its host, and a threat from another universe that is ready for every trick the Doctor's got up his sleeve. This time, has the Doctor gone too far? Listen Listened Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Edit date completed Custom Date Release Date Archive (no date) Save Characters Seventh Doctor Ace The Scourge Bernice Summerfield Show All Characters (4) How to listen to The Shadow of the Scourge: Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify Big Finish Audio The Shadow of the Scourge 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 11 reviews 3 April 2025 · 118 words Review by Allowableman2 Early BF tends to be clunky and this is no exception. While this might work well in a book and possibly even on TV or film, in an audio story, it's not very effective. I do applaud it for bringing Bernice Summerfield into the Big Finish world but that's pretty much it. McCoy himself is actually absent or takes a back seat for considerable spells of the story but when he is there he's only passable. Everyone else talks and acts like fictional characters from the 90s and not like real people. The Scourge are a typical villain of the week that's hyped up as extremely powerful but in the end up being toothless because of plot armor. Allowableman2 View profile Like Liked 0 13 March 2025 · 96 words Review by joeymapes21 1 High-concept story, lending well into the creepy, unnerving horror is always up my street and this did not disappoint. This throughout was a wonderful concept, executed well, with fantastic performance. The Big Finish debut of Bernice Summerfield was great, and she already cements herself as a good part of the Doctor Who lore well from just this for me - I'm excited to hear more, and read some of her VNAs. The Seventh Doctor in his scheming, and more manipulative demeanour also is good for me - I think these additional layers are always fascinating too. joeymapes21 View profile Like Liked 1 20 February 2025 · 17 words Review by megaminxwin 1 paul cornell doing what he does best: using common scifi tropes to explore some really important things megaminxwin View profile Like Liked 1 19 January 2025 · 340 words Review by KnuppMello Spoilers This review contains spoilers! Original (Brazilian Portuguese) Translation (English) Não julgue o livro pela capa, ou melhor dizendo não julgue o áudio pela capa. Posso dizer que esse é definitivamente um dos áudios subestimados do catálogo inicial da Big Finish - Escrito pelo brilhante Paul Cornell, The Shadow of the Scourge possui todo aquele tom pesado e incomum ao estilo Virgin New Adventures que sempre espero me deparar na linha Novel Adaptation. É interessante observar a mudança de contraste incial feita pelo escritor, os viajantes da TARDIS chegam a um hotel luxuoso, tranquilo com direito a músicas relaxantes, até que derepende tudo muda, uma invasão ao local acontece trazendo um tom muito pesado a história. Visualmente os Scourges parecem ser criaturas comicas que beiram ao ridículo, é aí que você se engana meu amigo - Esses gigantes louva-a-deus são muito mais terríveis e sanguinários do que vários outros vilões que vimos na série, seu controle e poderes telepaticos alimentam o medo e a ansiedade de suas vítimas até mesmo induzindo a se matarem, nessas cenas o áudio sufoca o ouvinte transmitindo sensações altamente perturbadoras dos distúrbios mentais causados por elas. Confesso que achei um pouco confuso o conceito dos Scourges envolvendo as dimensões, não entendi muito bem. Paul faz muito bem uso do chamado horror body, os membros dos asquerosos bixos crescendo nas vítimas...aaaa que agonia kkk coisa de revirar qualquer estômago do mais sensível até o mais resistente. Fiquei muito feliz pela dinâmica do trio, Doctor, Ace e Bernice finalmente surtir efeito, cada um deles bem encaixados na trama encima de um andamento narrativo bem dinâmico, Paul Cornell sabe muito bem lidar e conduzir suas peças entregando um enredo que traz situações alarmantes o tempo todo. Em resumo é um audio que tem todos os ingredientes dos livros da Virgin. É instigante, pesadooo, perturbador e com uma mensagem muito inteligente. A parte 3 é chocante, seu cliffhangar é de arrepiaaar com direito a uma excelente performance do Sylvester McCoy. Click here to translate KnuppMello View profile Like Liked 0 24 November 2024 · 5 words Review by Rock_Angel 2 UNDERRATED TO HELL N BACK Rock_Angel View profile Like Liked 2 Show All Reviews (11) Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating187 members 3.52 / 5 GoodReads AVG. Rating441 votes 3.66 / 5 The Time Scales AVG. Rating200 votes 3.55 / 5 Member Statistics Listened 335 Favourited 25 Reviewed 11 Saved 5 Skipped 3 Quotes Add Quote Link to Quote Favourite Tags: Funny DOCTOR: Hello, welcome to my mind! Sorry for the mess. — Seventh Doctor, The Shadow of the Scourge