paulopaperbooksonly's review
2.0
Second Doctor, Jamie & Victoria Waterfield
This Doctor is a bit different than the first. The First was always so concern with changing history. This one change history without thinking. Why is that? Did he realize "heck why do I care?"
Everytime the Doctor grabs one companion is he not changing history? I think he is, so why not changing other things?
In this tale, it remind me of something Arthur C Clarke wrote about a space elevator. In this case they are drawn to a space elevator in Jakarta and they go upwards to help the power surges that are happening there. In the up station they realize that something is wrong with the people there. They are behaving in strange manner. They soon realize that a being of pure energy is controling humans and they are changing the weather back on earth so a big thunderstorm fuels this energy beings.
Why didn't I enjoy this tale knowing it had Victoria and Jamie my favourite companions so far? Well Victoria narrator is kind of strange and put me off. Then the second doctor is almost a godlike being knowing everything before hand.
Nevertheless, if you enjoy Victoria (What's not to enjoy) hear this audiobook.
This Doctor is a bit different than the first. The First was always so concern with changing history. This one change history without thinking. Why is that? Did he realize "heck why do I care?"
Everytime the Doctor grabs one companion is he not changing history? I think he is, so why not changing other things?
In this tale, it remind me of something Arthur C Clarke wrote about a space elevator. In this case they are drawn to a space elevator in Jakarta and they go upwards to help the power surges that are happening there. In the up station they realize that something is wrong with the people there. They are behaving in strange manner. They soon realize that a being of pure energy is controling humans and they are changing the weather back on earth so a big thunderstorm fuels this energy beings.
Why didn't I enjoy this tale knowing it had Victoria and Jamie my favourite companions so far? Well Victoria narrator is kind of strange and put me off. Then the second doctor is almost a godlike being knowing everything before hand.
Nevertheless, if you enjoy Victoria (What's not to enjoy) hear this audiobook.
nwhyte's review
The Darkening Eye is a prequel to last year's Seventh Doctor audio, The Death Collectors, which introduced us listeners to the Dar Traders, an alien race who are the eponymous collectors. Here we get the full early Fifth Doctor crew encountering them along with an undead assassin; none of it really made sense, to be honest, people keep getting stabbed and the ending of the framing narrative (Nyssa reminiscing to a patient on Terminus) didn't make a lot of sense.[return][return]But it's really lifted by Sarah Sutton as Nyssa, doing a pretty good take of Davison's Doctor, Janet Fielding's Tegan and even Matthew Waterhouse's Adric, as well as almost all the other characters. There are a satifying number of references back to Season 17 - dwarf star alloy, Traken, dimensional problems, etc. The plot is no worse than several of the TV stories she appeared in (though I still don't get the Dar Traders).
Merged review:
It is a delightful homage to Season Five, with elements from almost all of the Victoria stories (and elsewhere from the Second Doctor's time) shaken together to form a very entertaining mixture. I think you could use this as a good entry point to the whole Companion Chronicles for a Who fan otherwise unfamiliar with the audios.
Merged review:
It is a delightful homage to Season Five, with elements from almost all of the Victoria stories (and elsewhere from the Second Doctor's time) shaken together to form a very entertaining mixture. I think you could use this as a good entry point to the whole Companion Chronicles for a Who fan otherwise unfamiliar with the audios.
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