
However, writer Mark Morris effectively creates a sinister atmosphere into which these characters, known at this stage only by their room numbers, are thrown that's evocative of the best of Sapphire and Steel or the TV McCoy story Ghostlight.
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![]() _ Amnesia, for some bizarre reason, has been a recurring theme across all the Doctor Who spin-off media, usually involving the poor old 8th Doctor, who from story to story can have anything from hours to his entire life missing from his mind. Big Finish have done it most recently in Question Marks in the Recorded Time anthology just two releases ago. So when the first episode of The House of Blue Fire focuses on four people who arrive at a sinister hotel and who don't remember a thing about themselves apart from their various phobias it starts to feel like very familiar territory. However, writer Mark Morris effectively creates a sinister atmosphere into which these characters, known at this stage only by their room numbers, are thrown that's evocative of the best of Sapphire and Steel or the TV McCoy story Ghostlight.
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![]() _ After last months Colin Baker celebratory diversion, The Doomsday Quatrain sees this year's Sylvester McCoy season resume. As with Robophobia it's a mostly standalone story, even if they ending does create a small cliffhanger into the final story of the trilogy. The “Celebrity Historical” has been a mainstay of TV Doctor Who since it returned, mostly working within a very rigid format, the Dickens, Shakespeare and Agatha Christie episodes were pretty much all the same script with a cut and paste job done on them to fill in the correct clever clever references to the relevant authors work. The promotion and back cove for this story creates the impression it will be in the same vein with Nostradamus, but instead it goes off in a completely different direction that actually winds up evoking a story from the Matt Smith's second year on TV. With just a touch of the Peter Davison story Enlightenment. |
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