Her Final Flight
The TARDIS crash lands and when the Doctor recovers consciousness he is amazed to find himself with Peri once more. Years after she was left on Thoros Beta with Yrcanos, Peri is on her own and stranded on the same planet as the Doctor. The TARDIS is taken by the local inhabitants and worshipped as a god; the impact of the crash has cracked the ship's outer plasmic shell and the temporal energies inside are bleeding out, healing the wounds of some and bringing horrible death to others who get too close. As the population is ravaged by the spilling energies, the Doctor realizes that his only choice is to finish the TARDIS off and save everyone from destruction, and in the end condemning himself to life on one planet for the rest of his days.
Her Final Flight is another of those freebie CDs that Big Finish give to subscribers, as was the case with Cryptobiosis several entries back. Once more the production team picked the pair of Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant to reprise their roles and the result is pretty good, even if we are told that several years have passed since their characters parted ways halfway through The Trial of a Time Lord. And the result of this reunion? Peri has let go of whatever anger and rage she might have had for the Doctor, seeing as she never saw him as "himself" again, her last impressions of the Doctor being that he turned on her and left her to die on Sil's home planet. Odd that; I'd be royally peeved. To put it mildly.
The cast around them argue back and forth over the TARDIS's god status, while a mysterious Agent employs a third party to observe everything the Doctor does, arousing the cusiosity of the listener as to how much of this is real, and how much of it is just a sham to get the Doctor to destroy the TARDIS. Hallucinations? An implant in the Doctor's head to make him think he's in the company of an old friend, to push him towards killing another? Intertesting.
As it's a special release the adventure runs only half the length of a regular CD, but I never got the feeling of being rushed or of being cheated out of a logical plot progression for the sake of saving time and money. No, it holds together quite well, and in the end makes sense. As much sense as any adventure does, that is.
NEXT EPISODE : EXCELIS RISING
Her Final Flight is another of those freebie CDs that Big Finish give to subscribers, as was the case with Cryptobiosis several entries back. Once more the production team picked the pair of Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant to reprise their roles and the result is pretty good, even if we are told that several years have passed since their characters parted ways halfway through The Trial of a Time Lord. And the result of this reunion? Peri has let go of whatever anger and rage she might have had for the Doctor, seeing as she never saw him as "himself" again, her last impressions of the Doctor being that he turned on her and left her to die on Sil's home planet. Odd that; I'd be royally peeved. To put it mildly.
The cast around them argue back and forth over the TARDIS's god status, while a mysterious Agent employs a third party to observe everything the Doctor does, arousing the cusiosity of the listener as to how much of this is real, and how much of it is just a sham to get the Doctor to destroy the TARDIS. Hallucinations? An implant in the Doctor's head to make him think he's in the company of an old friend, to push him towards killing another? Intertesting.
As it's a special release the adventure runs only half the length of a regular CD, but I never got the feeling of being rushed or of being cheated out of a logical plot progression for the sake of saving time and money. No, it holds together quite well, and in the end makes sense. As much sense as any adventure does, that is.
NEXT EPISODE : EXCELIS RISING
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