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Doctor Who: Davros by Wendy Padbury, Terry Molloy, Colin Baker, Lance Parkin, Bernard Horsfall
cyberarcanist's review
dark
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
nwhyte's review
Alas, despite resurrecting Terry Molloy to play Davros, ex-Gulliver/Time Lord/Thal Bernard Horsfall to play the chief human villain, and the fantastic Wendy Padbury to play his wife, I felt the brilliant cast was let down by the plot, which has an episode of silly office bickering between the Sixth Doctor and Davros and then the predictable mayhem and slaughter.
thomas_wright's review
5.0
this technical is a audio drama not a audio book so I shouldn't be counting it on my reading challenge for the year but I am
davros is probably my favourite doctor who vilin this particular story will not disappoint if you love intense drama with a possible political undertone typical of davros as a character I payed £2.99 for the digital download it was well worth the money this is all I'm going to say because if I say any more I'm going to sound like a davros fanboy
davros is probably my favourite doctor who vilin this particular story will not disappoint if you love intense drama with a possible political undertone typical of davros as a character I payed £2.99 for the digital download it was well worth the money this is all I'm going to say because if I say any more I'm going to sound like a davros fanboy
colossal's review
4.0
This is a sixth Doctor story, without a recurring companion, and is #48 in the Big Finish main range.
This is the second of a sort of trilogy leading up to the controversial 50th audio in the range that picks up from the shocking conclusion of the last eighth Doctor story. Fittingly given the subject of that one, this trilogy deals with recurring villains from the classic television series that help define the Doctor by being dark reflections of him in different ways.
This one brings back Davros as played by Terry Molloy who played him in Resurrection of the Daleks, Revelation of the Daleks and Remembrance of the Daleks during the classic tv series. Interestingly, and fairly uniquely in terms of the character, this is without the presence of the Daleks.
Davros is found and recruited by an unscrupulous mega-corporation head and his historian hero-worshiping wife to work for them. The Doctor is there for Davros's revival and humorously gets recruited to work alongside him. Alongside the bickering and contrast of these two egotistical and antagonistic geniuses, the story gives you flashbacks to Davros's past before and after the accident that resulted in his current condition. You get insights into Davros as a research scientist for the Kaleds and his early but inevitable mistakes alongside how he would develop the future capitalist/corporatist world to his own vision. It's all quite disturbing and somewhat tragic.
The ending is a bit weak, but what you're here for is the contrast between these two characters, and that's done superbly. Better than anything since the Genesis of the Daleks actually.
This is the second of a sort of trilogy leading up to the controversial 50th audio in the range that picks up from the shocking conclusion of the last eighth Doctor story. Fittingly given the subject of that one, this trilogy deals with recurring villains from the classic television series that help define the Doctor by being dark reflections of him in different ways.
This one brings back Davros as played by Terry Molloy who played him in Resurrection of the Daleks, Revelation of the Daleks and Remembrance of the Daleks during the classic tv series. Interestingly, and fairly uniquely in terms of the character, this is without the presence of the Daleks.
Davros is found and recruited by an unscrupulous mega-corporation head and his historian hero-worshiping wife to work for them. The Doctor is there for Davros's revival and humorously gets recruited to work alongside him. Alongside the bickering and contrast of these two egotistical and antagonistic geniuses, the story gives you flashbacks to Davros's past before and after the accident that resulted in his current condition. You get insights into Davros as a research scientist for the Kaleds and his early but inevitable mistakes alongside how he would develop the future capitalist/corporatist world to his own vision. It's all quite disturbing and somewhat tragic.
The ending is a bit weak, but what you're here for is the contrast between these two characters, and that's done superbly. Better than anything since the Genesis of the Daleks actually.
kmccubbin's review
3.0
Coming up on Big Finish's 50th story, Zagreus, the ramp up was a series of three stories featuring classic (arguably in the first case) arch villans. I decided to listen to all three before reviewing them.
These three, either by design or because that's just sorta the way you do this kind of thing now, had some common factors. They all revealed something about the past of the baddie that fleshed out the character (and occasionally The Doctor as well) in a way that we'd never seen before. They all had some discussion about the nature of evil (usually one on one with The Doctor). And finally, they all mentioned Zagreus in passing.
Davros - Much like in Omega, it's the long scenes of cat and mouse debate between Davros and the Sixth Doctor that make this worth a listen. And the scenes of pre-Travelling Machine Davros on Skaro work really well.
But this story is WAY too long. It feels padded. There is so much juicy insight into the creator of the Daleks and Terry Molloy is so astonishingly good that I am unsure why there was such a need to draw out the triumphs and tribulations of the TAI corporation so. One could argue that it's Davros and he needs a master plan to define him for each story, but his plan seems a little haphazard. He's just winging it and staying alive until a sort of Deus Ex Financia is dropped into his lap. And even then I'm not exactly sure how he's planning to get to his end run.
But there is much to recommend this story. It's a step up from Omega and Molloy gives the best performance as Davros since "Genesis of the Daleks". And the new history added to the Dalek creation story is surprisingly bold and adds on wonderfully to the previous story's musings on evil being a result of one's legacy being challenged.
I'd love to 3 1/2 this bad boy because it should truly sit right between "Omega" and "Master", but let's round up.
These three, either by design or because that's just sorta the way you do this kind of thing now, had some common factors. They all revealed something about the past of the baddie that fleshed out the character (and occasionally The Doctor as well) in a way that we'd never seen before. They all had some discussion about the nature of evil (usually one on one with The Doctor). And finally, they all mentioned Zagreus in passing.
Davros - Much like in Omega, it's the long scenes of cat and mouse debate between Davros and the Sixth Doctor that make this worth a listen. And the scenes of pre-Travelling Machine Davros on Skaro work really well.
But this story is WAY too long. It feels padded. There is so much juicy insight into the creator of the Daleks and Terry Molloy is so astonishingly good that I am unsure why there was such a need to draw out the triumphs and tribulations of the TAI corporation so. One could argue that it's Davros and he needs a master plan to define him for each story, but his plan seems a little haphazard. He's just winging it and staying alive until a sort of Deus Ex Financia is dropped into his lap. And even then I'm not exactly sure how he's planning to get to his end run.
But there is much to recommend this story. It's a step up from Omega and Molloy gives the best performance as Davros since "Genesis of the Daleks". And the new history added to the Dalek creation story is surprisingly bold and adds on wonderfully to the previous story's musings on evil being a result of one's legacy being challenged.
I'd love to 3 1/2 this bad boy because it should truly sit right between "Omega" and "Master", but let's round up.
littleretrorocker6's review
5.0
this technical is a audio drama not a audio book so I shouldn't be counting it on my reading challenge for the year but I am
davros is probably my favourite doctor who vilin this particular story will not disappoint if you love intense drama with a possible political undertone typical of davros as a character I payed £2.99 for the digital download it was well worth the money this is all I'm going to say because if I say any more I'm going to sound like a davros fanboy
davros is probably my favourite doctor who vilin this particular story will not disappoint if you love intense drama with a possible political undertone typical of davros as a character I payed £2.99 for the digital download it was well worth the money this is all I'm going to say because if I say any more I'm going to sound like a davros fanboy
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