Big Finish

‘The boy whom time forgot’, surely? Oh well.

First off, let’s ask ourselves a rhetorical question in a loud, slightly self-righteous voice.

“Is nothing sacred? Nothing, I ask you?”

Just thought I’d get that off my chest. See, this Big Finish adventure takes one of the classic moments of the fifth Doctor’s TV reign, tramples all over, gets into its SUV, drives over it, reverses back for another go, then throws it into an old reservoir where it’s left to float among the dead fish and tyres.

Memories: crushed.

All the same, once you’ve accepted that particular shock to your system, The Boy That Time Forgot is quite fun and interesting. Treading a very fine line between self-mockery and pathos, it manages to avoid being an utterly pointless exercise in mining continuity for all its worth – and then some – and becomes something almost thought provoking.

Be warned, I’ll have to spoil you a little bit after the jump just so you have the faintest idea what I’m on about. It might make you more interested in the play, too.

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It’s not often that the biggest fault with a Big Finish play is that it’s not long enough. Quite often, you just sit there, watching the tumbleweed go by and glaciers nip past you as you wait for the play to come to its inevitable conclusion.

But for the first time in quite a while, I came to the end of a play and found myself wishing that they’d spent a whole lot more time on it. I’m not saying that it was brilliant, it’s just when you have a character who has the potential to be one of the most interesting Doctor Who villains around, an hour doesn’t seem like quite enough to explore the character properly, does it?

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