hear, and Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant just slip back into the roles of the Doctor and Peri. Richards as a writer likes to make them bicker but enough time has passed so the bickering is more like friends bantering than the over aggressive.
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The Land of the Dead by: Stephen Cole: And after one good story it’s back to probably the weakest Monthly Range installment thus far. This one was written in a weekend and you can tell, it’s incredibly underdeveloped. The idea of prehistoric aliens coming to life and adapting should work well, but
Stephen Cole doesn’t ever really do anything with it and connecting it to the beliefs of indigenous people is at best uncomfortable, made worse by the fact that this is an all white cast. Yes it would have been difficult to get Inuit actors in Britain in late 1999/early 2000, but there also wasn’t
a need to tell this story. I will say listening to it this time hearing Neil Roberts as Tulung was a surprise. Cole also struggles with the characters, they’re all basically one-dimensional. Nyssa at this point at least only had her TV stuff for characterization, but the Doctor is also just there
and the rest of the supporting cast are nothing. There’s an archeologist who is a discount and flimsier Tegan who is really there to be told exposition while Brett is a villain that just kind of is there. He descends into madness but Christopher Scott is no Simon Rouse.
The Fearmonger by: Jonathan Blum: And here we have the first fantastic story Big Finish did and sadly the only one by Jonathan Blum who like his wife Kate Orman is a perfect writer for the Seventh Doctor. This is all a look at the general political machine and how the right manipulates it to their
advantage of stoking fear in the masses to push people further to the right. Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred as the Doctor and Ace immediately click back into their characters as Blum draws on the New Adventures for characterization. Jacqueline Pearce plays the right wing party leader Sherilyn
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