Main Range 145: Industrial Evolution (spoilers)

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DOCTOR WHO - MAIN RANGE » 145. INDUSTRIAL EVOLUTION

Released March 2011

Synopsis
19th century Lancashire: the white heat of the Industrial Revolution burns hottest at Samuel Belfrage's brass mill, a mill plagued by more than its fair share of work-related injuries.

While Thomas Brewster struggles to secure a fair deal for Belfrage's overworked hands, fellow travellers the Doctor and Evelyn follow the Copper King to Liverpool, there to discover the unexpected truth about Belfrage's business.

Back in Ackleton, the local MP voices the fears of many when he says that the machines are taking over. He's more right than he knows…

Written By: Eddie Robson
Directed By: Nicholas Briggs

CAST
Colin Baker (The Doctor), Maggie Stables (Evelyn Smythe), John Pickard (Thomas Brewster), Rory Kinnear (Samuel Belfrage), Warren Brown (Stephen Gibson), Joannah Tincey (Clara Stretton), Hugh Ross (Robert Stretton), Paul Chahidi (George Townsend), John Banks (various roles)

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omega Chancellor Likes: 7,725	Main Range 145: Industrial Evolution (spoilers) May 26, 2018 23:53:16 GMT mark687 likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by omega on May 26, 2018 23:53:16 GMT The final week of the Evelyn listen through notthebigfinishforum.freeforums.net/thread/4220/cocoa-cake-cd-evelyn-listen
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Main Range 145: Industrial Evolution (spoilers) May 28, 2018 11:11:49 GMT Hieronymus likes this

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Post by lidar2 on May 28, 2018 11:11:49 GMT

A nice story for Evelyn to go out on.

I like the idea in Eddie Robson's stories, it crops up in The Condemned and The Raincloud Man as well as this, that there are lots and lots of incognito aliens on Earth. Not invading or anything sinister, just going about their business.

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May 28, 2018 11:11:49 GMT lidar2 said:

A nice story for Evelyn to go out on.

I like the idea in Eddie Robson's stories, it crops up in The Condemned and The Raincloud Man as well as this, that there are lots and lots of incognito aliens on Earth. Not invading or anything sinister, just going about their business.

What do you think about the ending for Brewster, going off with an alien opportunist? On one hand Brewster had wanted in the other two stories to return to his own time (the story picks up after he's returned and gotten a job), but on the other hand it seemed that there were plans for Brewster that we haven't seen any pay off for yet seven years later.

I'd rather Brewster had stayed on Earth. He got on with people and Clara clearly liked him. I can see Brewster traveling around the UK, standing up for workers rights to a fair wage and working conditions.

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Post by Hieronymus on May 30, 2018 4:52:01 GMT

Of all the Brewster stories, I think this one works best. Evelyn is underused, but she does have a few choice lines.

I quite liked the first three episodes, but part 4 was too OTT, too frenetic, and felt as if too much was being dumped on the listener all at once. Some of the weight of the final episode needed to be either pared away, or shifted to earlier episodes.

"Keeping an open mind is a virtue—but, as the space engineer James Oberg once said, not so open that your brains fall out."--Carl Sagan

mark687 Chancellor Likes: 30,201 Member is Online	Main Range 145: Industrial Evolution (spoilers) May 30, 2018 11:31:36 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by mark687 on May 30, 2018 11:31:36 GMT Brewster says Farewell. Odd one this. Decent story but John Pickard and Warren Brown both have a weird habit of "reading" Dialogue instead of preforming it so its distracting. Regards mark687
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Stevo Chancellery Guard Likes: 5,908	Main Range 145: Industrial Evolution (spoilers) May 30, 2018 19:23:19 GMT mark687 likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Stevo on May 30, 2018 19:23:19 GMT May 30, 2018 11:31:36 GMT mark687 said: Brewster says Farewell. Great story!