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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Dec 10, 2020 10:30:33 GMT
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There are 10,000 humans in stasis aboard Starship Future. Ten thousand humans expecting to wake up on a distant planet, their new home. But twenty years into their journey, Starship Future takes on board fuel – and something else. Something that’s been waiting, frozen in space, for a very long time.
Something malevolent.
Something with a plan.
Unless the Doctor can help, it looks like the people of Starship Future have no future at all..."
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Post by mark687 on Dec 10, 2020 12:58:33 GMT
Power meets Dalek with a bit of Sword of Orion / Alien vibes thrown in. Plus Tom in top form.
Thoroughly Recommended
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Post by grinch on Dec 10, 2020 13:54:27 GMT
Absolutely adore Tom’s set up there.
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Post by melkur on Dec 10, 2020 17:10:20 GMT
I will admit that I did scoff slightly at the concept (an audio-prequel to an escape room), but, you know what? I absolutely adored that!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2020 17:15:28 GMT
Power meets Dalek with a bit of Sword of Orion / Alien vibes thrown in. Plus Tom in top form. Thoroughly Recommended Regards mark687 Ok will get just this one then😉
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Post by melkur on Dec 10, 2020 17:20:46 GMT
Power meets Dalek with a bit of Sword of Orion / Alien vibes thrown in. Plus Tom in top form. Thoroughly Recommended I'd throw 'Resolution' into the mixing-pot, but yeah, having listened to it on my walk into down today, I'd have to agree!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2020 17:45:18 GMT
Ok will get just this one then😉 Me too. I wasn't going to, because I'm a bit Dalek-ed out, but ...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2020 17:59:47 GMT
Ok will get just this one then😉 Me too. I wasn't going to, because I'm a bit Dalek-ed out, but ... Lol yes I never play a Dalek tale before bedtime lol I get enough screeching voices at work
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2020 18:15:55 GMT
Me too. I wasn't going to, because I'm a bit Dalek-ed out, but ... Lol yes I never play a Dalek tale before bedtime lol I get enough screeching voices at work I think you must work at the same place I do
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Post by tuigirl on Dec 10, 2020 19:39:37 GMT
Lol yes I never play a Dalek tale before bedtime lol I get enough screeching voices at work I think you must work at the same place I do Ditto....
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2020 20:03:37 GMT
That was great fun, and good use of a 'single-disc' story length. As others have said, it contains many bits and pieces from other things (the last Dalek speech reminded me of a similar moment at the end of Genesis). A great cast, and a good use of a Dalek. Dark, dripping corridors and heavy, slamming metal doors. Dingy motives and disembodied voices.
Best moment for me?
{Spoiler} "Don't tell me you've made a list," says the Doctor when the Dalek recognises him as the fourth incarnation. "Am I your favourite?" I laughed out very loud at that one. I wasn't going to buy this, but I'm very glad I did.
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Post by Kestrel on Dec 11, 2020 9:30:19 GMT
Pretty fun story. Really makes me want to dive into the 4DAs, but I can't afford to.
The ending felt a bit... off, though. So we have a whole story about the Doctor saving a colony ship from Daleks, only to leave one alive at the end who can then massacre the whole ship now that he's gone? I dunno. It made the story feel kinda pointless.
Anyway, kudos on this being the first, and so far only TLV story to actually explicitly tie-I to the TLV premise.
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Post by The Curator on Dec 11, 2020 10:45:04 GMT
The ending felt a bit... off, though. So we have a whole story about the Doctor saving a colony ship from Daleks, only to leave one alive at the end who can then massacre the whole ship now that he's gone? I dunno. It made the story feel kinda pointless. I don’t want to agree, but I kind of do. I think the problem is that this story had to fit in with the stories that had already been established around it - so it had to begin in a particular way (a lone damaged Dalek) and end in a particular way (a lone damaged Dalek). Then again, the Fourth Doctor doesn’t have the best completion rate when it comes doing the jobs that the Time Lords “wouldn’t touch with their lilywhite hands” so maybe it’s in character...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2020 11:44:47 GMT
"Unless the Doctor can help, it looks like the people of Starship Future have no future at all..."... and even when he does help, the people of the Starship Future have no future at all... EXTERMINATE! I thought Genetics of the Daleks was a good story, it doesn't really do much in the big scheme of things but it is a fun little side-step for the Fourth Doctor.
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Post by Chakoteya on Dec 11, 2020 13:47:32 GMT
When Swann asks, 'is it safe?' did anyone else hear Ford Prefect replying in their head - 'oh yes, it's perfectly safe. It's just the rest of us who are in danger...'
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Post by shallacatop on Dec 11, 2020 15:30:00 GMT
Enjoyed Genetics of the Daleks.
As others have pointed out, there's nothing original in this, but it expertly blends different and familiar elements to produce a great story. The guest cast really shone in this, I think greatly helped by the fact the Doctor doesn't come into the story until 18 minutes in. Tom is on fine form and getting a solo story for his Doctor is still very much a novelty and welcomed; I also liked the way he said "you have paralysed me!" like Morrissey, even if it was most probably unintended! The sound design and music was very good too, really sold the environment the characters were in.
I think the ending could've done with a revision, though. I knew that the story would end with the Dalek surviving, as this comes slap between the two Escape Hunt rooms, but I was expecting it to be one of those throwbacks to the Hartnell era where the Doctor's victory is barely escaping with his life. Unfortunately, he's just a bit reckless here and contradictory to what he said earlier in the story about not trusting a Dalek shell.
Quibbles about the ending aside, enjoyed it a lot and loved the link to Time Lord Victorious too. Probably the best standalone story outside of the main TLV story so far.
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Post by mark687 on Dec 11, 2020 15:59:27 GMT
Just picking up on other comments
I assume the Ending is deliberate to set up the Escape Room
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Post by Kestrel on Dec 11, 2020 16:33:45 GMT
"Unless the Doctor can help, it looks like the people of Starship Future have no future at all..."... and even when he does help, the people of the Starship Future have no future at all... EXTERMINATE! I thought Genetics of the Daleks was a good story, it doesn't really do much in the big scheme of things but it is a fun little side-step for the Fourth Doctor. Functionally all Genetics does is foreshadow TLV, albeit clumsily. I think this whole multimedia enterprise would work much better condensed to a single, conventional 4-story boxset: * Episode 1: 4th Doctor meets future Daleks, learns of TLV-Doctor. * Episode 2: 8th Doctor allies with Daleks to solve mystery/problem. * Episode 3: 8th Doctor and Daleks turn on each other, one or more Daleks sent to Episode 1. * Episode 4: The Doctor(s) resolve the TLV problem. Which more or less aligns with the stories we have, sans the cowboy episode. It would probably cohere better if the problem in ep2 is the result of the TLV Doctor, the revelation of which could spark the conflict in ep3 (and would be necessary for the future Dalek's foreshadowing). There's a bunch of TLV media I haven't experienced, so maybe I'm failing to grasp the "big picture" here, but what TLV media I have experienced--universally--largely fails to contribute to any broader narrative in any way, so I'm left... just really not know what TPTB think they're doing with it, or what they're trying to do with it. A damaged Dalek, desperate to survive, for example, is not a premise that requires much backstory to establish. It is, arguably, not a premise that requires -any- backstory.
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Post by shallacatop on Dec 11, 2020 18:36:54 GMT
Just picking up on other comments I assume the Ending is deliberate to set up the Escape Room Regards mark687 The Escape Room just needs the Dalek to survive and know it’s threatening the ship. It doesn’t mean the ending has to be how it is. I would’ve preferred it if the Doctor was forced out of events of Genetics, rather than him knowingly leaving a Dalek on board. Indeed, I prefer that because (Escape Room spoilers) A Dalek Awakens features lines from Jodie as the Doctor. So it’d make sense that the Doctor would come back to assist after being forced to leave, albeit a few regenerations later! It’s not like we don’t have endings like that. A lot of the Hartnell stories are just about the team getting back to the TARDIS and managing to leave. Sleep No More is a recent example.
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Post by karldwilliams on Dec 12, 2020 8:52:36 GMT
The ending felt a bit... off, though. So we have a whole story about the Doctor saving a colony ship from Daleks, only to leave one alive at the end who can then massacre the whole ship now that he's gone? I dunno. It made the story feel kinda pointless. I have no problem with bleak endings and it's not as if this hasn't happened a few times before anyway. For example in Blood of the Daleks the Doctor leaves Red Rocket Rising just as a Cyber force is coming so they're in for a fate worse than death anyway. Wouldn't want it all the time but now and then that's life! Really enjoyed Genetics, another Morfis winner! He's really on fire at the moment demonstrating why he's one of my favourite writers.
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