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The Davison Audios: Best Story: Amazon Comment: Hmmmm, didn't warrant a comment at the time, it seems. Still, I remember it as being worthwhile, and it did get an average rating so it must have been okay… Rating: * * * Minuet In Hell Writer: Alan W Lear with Gary Russell Order: Amazon Comment: A story set in an asylum with top performances from the three stars should have been a major success.It still is, in parts, but the audio's potential is weakened by childish demons and the least convincing Americans ever laid to tape. Still average, but a wasted opportunity. Rating: * * * Invaders From Mars Writer: Mark Gattiss Comment: For some reason all of the Big Finish comedy stories come over as a little smug and too silly. This is no exception. Rating: * * The Chimes of Midnight Writer: Robert Shearman Comment: A reasonable enough tale, though so obviously inspired by Sapphire & Steel it's untrue. Entertaining, my Poppet, but having a villain who sounds like Leslie Phillips is surely not going to give anyone nightmares? Rating: * * * Embrace The Darkness Writer: Nicholas Briggs Comment: An adequate yet unexceptional story involving two races of aliens, one of which have no eyes and so cannot see. Stevie Wonder not said to be a fan. Rating: * * * The Time of the Daleks Writer: Justin Richards Comment: Rating: * * * Neverland Writer: Alan Barnes Order: Blackstar Comment: The conclusion to Paul McGann's inferior second Big Finish season. I did actually think this was a very listenable entry, despite clearly being the most fannish. In fact, it's so fanwanky it's like watching Paul Cornell cracking one off after giving John Peel the reach-around. With Ian Levine filming it all on camcorder. Allegedly, of course. Meanwhile, Don Warrington plays the first black Time Lord - and an important one, at that. I'll say no more, save making it a spoiler… Rating: * * * |
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