Scan barcode
A review by colossal
Doctor Who: Davros by Wendy Padbury, Terry Molloy, Colin Baker, Lance Parkin, Bernard Horsfall
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.