The Nowhere Place

It's 2197; Earth's empire is expanding and the military are on a heightened state of alert, and suspicion. At the edge of human space, a carrier group begins to experience breakdowns amongst the crew, the affected members claiming to hear a bell. The Doctor and Evelyn hear the bell in the TARDIS and track it to the carrier, and a doorway set into its hull that predates all known Earth history. The bell sounds, the door opens, and more people are lured through into... nowhere.

Okay things are looking up. The last two audios were not up to snuff as far as I was concerned, for different reasons each time. The Nowhere Place may not be a perfect remedy, but it is a step in the right direction, with a mysterious unknown steeped in the surreal threatening everyone and ultimately everything with destruction. Much more like the Doctor Who we know.

The constantly diminishing cast is made up of the regulars of the series plus the crew of the carrier, the most memorable being the increasingly frantic Oswin, unable to save her ship or her crew she continues to yell out orders even if there are fewer people to obey them every time the door opens. How she actually made it in the military is a mystery if her reactions to the unknown and stress are like this. Her solutions to some problems like the Doctor and Evelyn and just about anyone who she hasn't got time to deal with in the immediate time is to literally put them on ice and freeze them until she has time to deal. Not that it happens, of course, but it would make for an interesting plot device somewhere in a future adventure.

The Nowhere Place does its fair share of jumping about in time, taking the Doctor back to a train in the past where an idle doodle on a scrap of paper could change the future of the human race - a future someone has a vested interest in aborting if they can. How it unfolds, mind you, gets a bit tricky. Are we to believe that there have been infinite races developing on Earth over time and heading for the stars, but not leaving any evidence of their civilzations behind? Silurians? Hello?

Ah well. There's that air of creepiness about this one that doesn't go away - not as chilling as others have been in the past, mind you. Certainly I enjoyed it more than the previous two tales.

Let's have some more.

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