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Post by omega on Nov 11, 2018 0:13:50 GMT
DOCTOR WHO - THE EARLY ADVENTURES » 5.3. ENTANGLEMENTTBR November 2018 SynopsisCambridge, England, the mid 1930s. When the Doctor, Steven and Vicki get separated from the TARDIS they are forced to spend some time amongst the ancient spires of Sedgwick College. The college is mid-way through a leadership crisis following the unexplained disappearance of the Master of Sedgwick, Sir Isaiah Hardy. An election for his replacement is now taking place. But is that all that’s happening in this seemingly peaceful location? The Proctors are behaving in mysterious ways and the students are prone to bursts of unexplained violence. When one of his companions also vanishes, the Doctor realises that there’s more at stake here than control of an educational establishment. A dark plan is underway - one that threatens the entire future of humanity itself! Written By: Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky Directed By: Lisa Bowerman CASTMaureen O'Brien (Vicki / Narrator), Peter Purves (Steven Taylor / The Doctor / Narrator), Mark Edel-Hunt (Guy), Sam Woolf (Kim), Philip Fox (Professor Charles Lewis), Richard Braine (Professor Linus Woolf), John Rowe (Sir Isiah Hardy). Other parts played by members of the cast.
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Post by omega on Nov 11, 2018 0:14:19 GMT
Out this week according to the podcast
Episode titles if you're into those: 1. The Wall of Death 2. Photographic Evidence 3. The Hour of Voting 4. The Entanglement Machine
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Post by omega on Nov 14, 2018 8:52:13 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2018 10:34:47 GMT
I have enjoyed this series of stories and will be listening to this in a while.
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Post by mark687 on Nov 14, 2018 12:08:11 GMT
Funny pacey, modern yet still 1st Doc Era fitting
Very enjoyable tale.
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Post by Timelord007 on Nov 14, 2018 13:09:25 GMT
Another one I'm looking forward too, i love the dark nights, stick a BF audio drama on switch the lights off & get transported into adventures with the Doctor & let your imagination flow.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2018 14:45:33 GMT
Another one I'm looking forward too, i love the dark nights, stick a BF audio drama on switch the lights off & get transported into adventures with the Doctor & let your imagination flow. Am same winter and audio are just made for each other
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Post by IndieMacUser on Nov 15, 2018 17:11:48 GMT
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Post by shallacatop on Nov 27, 2018 17:55:27 GMT
What a strange story... yet I really liked it! It’s very fast paced, funny and rather cleverly structured. Each episode is dominated by one of the sub-plots that is also the main plot. If that makes any sense!? Perhaps it’s got too many different bonkers sci-fi elements in it that don’t seem to go anywhere, but I also think that’s rather the point. Purves and O’Brien are as terrific as ever.
I think the Guy and Kim characters are a little clumsily handled. They’re meant to be the famous Cold War agents, but their backgrounds and the setting of the story don’t match their real life counterparts.
Roll on the next release!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2018 11:47:25 GMT
I'm sorry to say Entanglement didn't quite click for me. It might be that I've been so impressed by The Dalek Occupation of Winter (imagine teeth buried into a human eye forever) and An Ideal World (my right, your right) that this story has fallen afoul of the aftershock. The positives first. It could be something from Khan and Salinsky themselves or Dorney's script editing influence, but there's an almost Avengers-ish vibe to this particular tale (I don't know why, but I kept thinking "A Brief for Murder"). Much in the same vein of something like The War Machines. The Doctor's telling his companions that there's nothing untoward, only to start snooping around in someone else's desk fits the spy-heavy atmosphere of 1960s television. Vicki's visit to the eccentric in the photo shop could easily have been something done by Honor Blackman or Patrick MacNee back in the day. A strong atmosphere too with an excellent sense of space, you could feel the TARDIS rockinig back and forth on that roof. Talking of Vicki, kudos to Maureen O'Brien for making me genuinely afraid for her safety when Steven began to turn. There was one thing that niggled at me throughout the story, though. The Doctor's characterisation here feels a bit, well, off. He should've been able to handle those undergraduates with ease, even in the midst of all that artificially-generated hullaballoo. We're only a couple stories away from Master Plan where he's steel-facedly negotiating a hostage exchange with Daleks and electrifying the airlock ladder on Desperus to keep the convicts out. He lacks that sense of presence, a bit too doddery and a bit too much like his successor in how much he plays the fool. Intimidating him is hard work. Maybe it's the Cambridge atmosphere, but he feels a bit brushed aside here in a way that Winter and World didn't quite do. All the stranger because this is the Doctor, Vicki and Steven's first unambiguous "win" of this run.
(As an aside: I noticed that the TARDIS running out of control in the bookends feels rather strange to me. It's interesting because it shouldn't do, but I'm so used to the Hartnell TARDIS being this weighty, unshakeable thing that having it rattle and roar is rather the novelty. If it had been only two incarnations or so forward I wouldn't have noticed it. Funny the kind of things you accept as part of the fabric of storytelling.)
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You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Feb 13, 2019 9:17:18 GMT
Listened to it this week and enjoyed it a lot. I kept picturing the 2 Professors competing for the provost-ship as the 2 from History Today (showing my age here) and kept expecting one of them to say "See that [insert as applicable], that's you, that is"
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Post by Hieronymus on Mar 5, 2019 0:49:18 GMT
The strength of the characters and performances are so strong and engaging, and the world so richly imagined, that any implausibilities can be completely forgiven.
Also, from listening to the extras, it seems this adventure was recorded in a single day, which I can hardly believe. The quality of the finished product belies the speed at which it was recorded.
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Post by mrperson on Mar 5, 2019 21:03:24 GMT
I really liked this one . Quite a bit. It's been a while since I listened to it, but I did think it quite clever, but that's not quite how entanglement works, at least to whatever extent I understand it.
That said, it's better than reversing the polarity of the "neutron flow"...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2019 8:35:26 GMT
I listened to this again last night hadn’t re did it since it was released ,as I was going to bed as I really enjoyed this trilogy of stories. I was trying to escape the Time War Epics for a bit it’s nice to visit self contained stories and I so love Peter and Maureen .Also The wee nod to the Cambridge spies. I fell asleep towards the end so will have a replay when I finish work
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2020 16:22:45 GMT
I absolutely loved this
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