Doctor Who

You know a play is going to start off badly when the station announcer warns you not to be confused that it starts in the middle of a story. Don’t worry, you won’t haven’t missed anything, she promises, clearly worried the audience isn’t used to difficult concepts or standard Big Finish plot techniques.

She was right, though. It was confusing.

Surprisingly, despite already starting with the second half of an adventure, No More Lies is still a play of two halves. The first one is very stupid and very science-fictiony; the second is a far more emotional, far less stupid affair. In fact, if they’d lopped off that first half (which, of course, was also a second half), it would have been a very good play indeed.

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So we’ve had something Dalek, something silly, something thought-provoking and now, something traditional. Blah, blah, blah, blah, Doctor and companion arrive, Doctor and companion find people being killed off one by one, Doctor and companion get put in peril and discover monster is behind it all.

Ring any bells with anyone?

Yes, it’s standard Doctor Who plot #3. It worked for countless episodes of the old series (Image of the Fendahl, Curse of Peladon, The Dominators and just about anything else you care to name) and it’s readily deployable to the halfway house between old and new Who that is the Big Finish universe.

The question is, did you feel the fear?

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