(BIG FINISH) Doctor Who: The Light At The End (2013) - Review
So, seeing as the Big Finish audios have now been confirmed as 'canonical' by Steven Moffat, we can regard this story as just as important as The Day of the Doctor, only in audio form. This also features five Doctors with their companions, as well as archive dialogue for Doctors 1-3. This is Doctor Who before the regeneration number system got messed up, so we can expect a simply enough story, can't we?
No. This story is a jumbled mess of paradoxes and alternate time lines. It's Doctor Who at its most creative and complicated, and with it being on audio form it makes it a little harder to follow.
Essentially, the plot makes no sense. However, it doesn't need to make sense. There's a great atmosphere and it feels so right to hear the Doctors and their companions being forced together as part of a huge plot by the Master - who is superbly played by Geoffrey Beevers. All cast members are great, and for fans new to the audio adventures, this a good example and place to start. However, a small mistake was made by Nicolas Briggs (writer and director) in bringing Eighth Doctor companion Charley Pollard into the mix. Being simply an audio companion with an already established background, she seems a perfect candidate, but the problem lies with the fact that she isn't well-known outside of her previous stories, save for a small mention in The Night of the Doctor. I've not listened to a Charley Pollard audio, and her background could have been brushed over more, or it might have been better to have the Eighth Doctor on his own, or with a new companion introduced in this adventure if a companion was needed so much.
The music for this story is excellent and I hope a soundtrack is released, although the theme remix is a bit of a mess, and it is a love-or-hate theme, with almost every pre-2005 theme pulled into one, slightly out of tune piece of music.
Overall, a very enjoyable story, and great fun. 8/10
No. This story is a jumbled mess of paradoxes and alternate time lines. It's Doctor Who at its most creative and complicated, and with it being on audio form it makes it a little harder to follow.
Essentially, the plot makes no sense. However, it doesn't need to make sense. There's a great atmosphere and it feels so right to hear the Doctors and their companions being forced together as part of a huge plot by the Master - who is superbly played by Geoffrey Beevers. All cast members are great, and for fans new to the audio adventures, this a good example and place to start. However, a small mistake was made by Nicolas Briggs (writer and director) in bringing Eighth Doctor companion Charley Pollard into the mix. Being simply an audio companion with an already established background, she seems a perfect candidate, but the problem lies with the fact that she isn't well-known outside of her previous stories, save for a small mention in The Night of the Doctor. I've not listened to a Charley Pollard audio, and her background could have been brushed over more, or it might have been better to have the Eighth Doctor on his own, or with a new companion introduced in this adventure if a companion was needed so much.
The music for this story is excellent and I hope a soundtrack is released, although the theme remix is a bit of a mess, and it is a love-or-hate theme, with almost every pre-2005 theme pulled into one, slightly out of tune piece of music.
Overall, a very enjoyable story, and great fun. 8/10
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