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Overview

Released

November 2008

Written by

Steven Hall

Runtime

30 minutes

Story Type

Anniversary Special

Time Travel

Future

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Temporal grace

Story Arc (Potential Spoilers!)

Virus Strain Arc

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Ranulph Fiennes Base, Earth

Synopsis

In a top secret military bunker deep beneath the Antarctic ice a mysterious death threatens peace negotiations and could spell disaster for the inhabitants of Earth. Can the Doctor cross the t's and dot the i's? Or will his efforts get lost in translation?

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This is part of a series of reviews of Doctor Who in chronological timeline order.

Previous Story: Casualties of War


What a story! It finally explains why we've been seeing the "45" crop up everywhere throughout the last 3 stories. The Word Lord is a brilliant villain. He's my favourite kind of villain; all-powerful God bound by some silly rule that can defeat them. The way it all comes together is genuinely brilliant. This story easily makes this whole anthology worth it.


Next Story: The Magic Mousetrap


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The Word Lord possui uma distância enorme e bem significativa de qualidade comparada as 3 histórias anteriores - A trama do 4° áudio vai direto ao ponto aproveitando muito bem seus poucos 25 minutos de história entregando um ótimo andamento narrativo não dando tempo para ouvinte se distrair com outras coisas. Dessa vez o Doutor, Ace e Hex foram abordados dentro de uma base ultrassecreta na Antártica e são acusados de terem cometido um assassinato. Logo conhecemos o excelente e interessante vilão chamado “Nobody No-One” o malfeitor que está por trás disso tudo.

The Word Lord possesses an enormous and quite significant quality distance compared to the previous 3 stories - the plot of the 4th audio goes straight to the point making good use of its brief 25 minutes of story, delivering a great narrative pace not giving the listener time to get distracted by other things. This time the Doctor, Ace, and Hex were approached inside an ultra-secret base in Antarctica and are accused of committing a murder. Soon, we meet the excellent and interesting villain known as "Nobody No-One", the wrongdoer behind it all.

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Honestly, I'm not sure what I just listened to. Thirty minutes was far too short for me to grasp what the Word Lord actually was. I think it was a great and unique concept, (from what I understood,) which I'd like to see again, but this story didn't quite cut it for me. Should've at least been 45 minutes or longer. (Pun intended)

On the bright side, this was my first introduction to Seven, Ace, and Hex. Overall I really enjoyed their dynamics in this story and am excited to check out their classic episodes and audios.

2.5/5


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HEX: It's always a murder or a war. Why do we never blunder in on like, you know, a really good party?

— Hex, The Word Lord

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