Army of Death Doctor Who Jason Arnopp 9781844356034 Books
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Skeletal citizens are marching on Stronghaven. Can anything stop them? In search of answers, the Doctor and Mary must journey into the dead heart of a dead city to face a terrifying adversary, whose ambitions transcend the stuff of life itself.
Army of Death Doctor Who Jason Arnopp 9781844356034 Books
The Doctor and Mary arrive on a planet in turmoil where there are two cities one of which apparently wiped itself out, whiel the other is being invaded by an army of skeleton even while trying to maintain a state of martial law on orders from its new and quite uncertain President (David Harewood.)There's a lot to like about this. Paul McGann is wonderfully playful and fun as the Eighth Doctor and the Doctor is at his most charming. While these features are always present, the headier nature of previous stories have led to them being muted. It's a delight to hear. I loved when the doctor renamed the clunkily named robots. He's joined by some of the most solid guest actors I've heard on a Big Finish play with Harewood, Carolyn Pickles, and Eva Pope all turning in top notch performances. The script does a great job developing its characters. The concept is impressive and creepy. I liked the idea of how the modern idea of a cloud server is the inspiration for a technology in the story. There's also a nice plot twist in part three that turns everything on its head.
On the downside, there are a few minor things that bothered me on how some of the guest characters were dispatched. But the biggest problem in this serial was actually the biggest asset in the previous serial. In Witch in the Woods, Mary Shelley was the type of companion that could handle herself when thrown nearly 200 years into her own future. And she showed similar strength as a character in The Silver Turk. In this story, however, she's conflicted over her feelings for the Doctor and has clearly fallen for him and that drives her character. To be fair, there were subtle hints of this in the prior two stories but she'd taken a big leap forward in her feelings that strains credulity. While Army of Death implies a certain number of adventures have occurred between stories, the intensity of her feeling for the Doctor feels very sudden. I blame Big Finish's trilogy format. It seems like they wanted to bring the Doctor-Mary relationship to a head, and leave with an end that could be considered a close to the relationship while still leaving it open for new adventures to occur if the public demanded. Unfortunately, this business need hurt the story.
To be clear, Julie Cox's acting is still solid, it's just the writing that's problematic. I also liked when she questioned why the Doctor was more deeply affected by the horrors they were witnessing. Overall, the weakness in the Mary story is overcome by the strong plot and this is a very good outing for the Eighth Doctor.
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Army of Death Doctor Who Jason Arnopp 9781844356034 Books Reviews
The Doctor and Mary arrive on a planet in turmoil where there are two cities one of which apparently wiped itself out, whiel the other is being invaded by an army of skeleton even while trying to maintain a state of martial law on orders from its new and quite uncertain President (David Harewood.)
There's a lot to like about this. Paul McGann is wonderfully playful and fun as the Eighth Doctor and the Doctor is at his most charming. While these features are always present, the headier nature of previous stories have led to them being muted. It's a delight to hear. I loved when the doctor renamed the clunkily named robots. He's joined by some of the most solid guest actors I've heard on a Big Finish play with Harewood, Carolyn Pickles, and Eva Pope all turning in top notch performances. The script does a great job developing its characters. The concept is impressive and creepy. I liked the idea of how the modern idea of a cloud server is the inspiration for a technology in the story. There's also a nice plot twist in part three that turns everything on its head.
On the downside, there are a few minor things that bothered me on how some of the guest characters were dispatched. But the biggest problem in this serial was actually the biggest asset in the previous serial. In Witch in the Woods, Mary Shelley was the type of companion that could handle herself when thrown nearly 200 years into her own future. And she showed similar strength as a character in The Silver Turk. In this story, however, she's conflicted over her feelings for the Doctor and has clearly fallen for him and that drives her character. To be fair, there were subtle hints of this in the prior two stories but she'd taken a big leap forward in her feelings that strains credulity. While Army of Death implies a certain number of adventures have occurred between stories, the intensity of her feeling for the Doctor feels very sudden. I blame Big Finish's trilogy format. It seems like they wanted to bring the Doctor-Mary relationship to a head, and leave with an end that could be considered a close to the relationship while still leaving it open for new adventures to occur if the public demanded. Unfortunately, this business need hurt the story.
To be clear, Julie Cox's acting is still solid, it's just the writing that's problematic. I also liked when she questioned why the Doctor was more deeply affected by the horrors they were witnessing. Overall, the weakness in the Mary story is overcome by the strong plot and this is a very good outing for the Eighth Doctor.
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