Doctor Who Audio: Dark Eyes 3, Episode 3: Masterplan
Dec 3, 2014 2:37:00 GMT -5
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Post by 🐍 huss 🐍 on Dec 3, 2014 2:37:00 GMT -5
Last week on Dark Eyes 3: The Doctor gets pissed off.
This week on Dark Eyes 3: The Doctor and the Master get trapped and talk about their feelings. Liv and Sally are endangered with disastrous results.
Masterplan starts with a minute of silence. Well, atmospheric noise. I think it's supposed to be the sound of SCIENCE EXPERIMENT, as Dr. Marcus Schriver is working on creating the consciousness gas that will, he hopes, allow human-controlled interstellar travel across vast distances (I think) but which will actually eventually develop into the Eminence. The Doctor, in FUCK EVERYTHING mode, visits Schriver to try and convince him to stop his research. With his words. (The Doctor is always the Doctor, I suppose. He's not going to just shoot the guy and blow up the planet or something.) He leaves Liv on the isolated planet to assist Schriver and keep an eye on him, as he is kind of going a bit wonky in the head via overwork. The Doctor has a shipment of SCIENCE DELIVERIES to stop from reaching the planet.
Said delivery is a container of the correctly calibrated gas which which Schriver is going to create the Eminence (and, looking at the cast list to get the correct spelling of "Schriver," I see that David Sibley is voicing both characters, so I guess that's the answer to how the Eminence started life, not as a random consciousness picked up by the gas, but as Schriver's mind forever voyaging), so the Doctor sets up some sabotage to get rid of the crew and set the ship to self-destruct. While this is happening, Sally runs into Liv on the planet and contacts the Master to let him know that the Doctor must be meddling nearby. The Master correctly divines the Doctor's plans and counter-sabotages him, setting his TARDIS adrift, making escape impossible. The Doctor counter-counter-sabotages him (good lord this is starting to sound like The Curse of Fatal Death now) but sort of screws up in his "escape while the Master gets blown up" plan and then they're both trapped on an imminently-exploding spaceship. YAY. Time to gripe at each other about their childhoods and motivations and all that bullshit! Whee! At one point the Master says that the Doctor considers himself "Judge, jury, and executioner," and as a Hot Fuzz fan, I shouted aloud to my car stereo "HE'S NOT JUDGE JUDY AND EXECUTIONER!"
The two Time Lords have a bit of a brainstorm and conclude that the only way out is to use the bit of the Eminence hiding in the Master (the Doctor let the Eminence loose in the Master's TARDIS at the end of Dark Eyes 2, and the only way the Master could get rid of it was to lock it away in his brain—it sounded like it made sense at the time), so Alex Macqueen turns his camp dial up to 11 and attempts to control the Eminence who's like "lol no." At this point the Doctor is all, "God you ALWAYS try this and it NEVER works" because seriously, unleashing some sort of unstoppable evil and assuming he can control it is the Master's MO.
Let's see, this is getting a bit long now. The Master throws the deaths of Lucie Miller and Alex Campbell in the Doctor's face. The storage bay in which they are sealed contains one of the transport coffins that will eventually hold Infinite Warriors, but which for now contains Molly O'Sullivan and the Eminence gas, and she is slowly infecting the gas with the retrogenitor particles in her dark eyes, which will eventually cause the Eminence's army to become the Master's (the Eminence is clueless about this bit for now, though). The Eminence sucks all the air out of the storage bay and the Master gloats that he was always better at relying on his respiratory bypass, which will at least enable him to watch the Doctor die. The Master, clearly unable to control the Eminence, bargains with it and gets it to withdraw. The Master then revives the Doctor because god knows he can't live without his best frenemy.
Meanwhile, Sally and Liv are trying to get Schriver on their respective sides and eliminate the competition. At one point Liv mentions that the Master has had any number of Sallies, passing him test tubes and telling him how wonderful he is WHICH MAY SOUND SOMEWHAT FAMILIAR if you are familiar with the Third Doctor and how Dr. Liz Shaw left. (I liked Liz, I wish she had been on the show longer than one season.) Schriver by this point is paranoid as all hell of everything, and locks them both up, destroys his research, and lets the computer decide which one of them to suck the brain out of for testing on the consciousness project. It chooses Sally, so she's dead and Liv's alive. (Although it wouldn't surprise me if Sally comes back as a facet of the Eminence now.) The Master returns squished into the transport coffin holding Molly's body and the Eminence gas, and he seems mildly perturbed that Sally's dead. (I hope he doesn't mourn. Not his style.) So he grabs Liv instead and heads off with her.
The Doctor, having protected himself in the crash somehow, is rescued by Narvin, who I guess was watching everything and not helping. That's the CIA for you.
My thoughts: Eh, what can I say. I like it when they fight.
Interested in seeing where the story with Liv goes (I like her), and whether Sally is truly gone (I'm guessing at least her voice will still be around as the computer interface). Also Molly needs to wake up, she hasn't had anything to do in the last two episodes. Finally, seriously what is the point of Narvin. I guess I need to listen to Gallifrey after this.
Available from Big Finish.
(tagging Prole Hole)
This week on Dark Eyes 3: The Doctor and the Master get trapped and talk about their feelings. Liv and Sally are endangered with disastrous results.
Masterplan starts with a minute of silence. Well, atmospheric noise. I think it's supposed to be the sound of SCIENCE EXPERIMENT, as Dr. Marcus Schriver is working on creating the consciousness gas that will, he hopes, allow human-controlled interstellar travel across vast distances (I think) but which will actually eventually develop into the Eminence. The Doctor, in FUCK EVERYTHING mode, visits Schriver to try and convince him to stop his research. With his words. (The Doctor is always the Doctor, I suppose. He's not going to just shoot the guy and blow up the planet or something.) He leaves Liv on the isolated planet to assist Schriver and keep an eye on him, as he is kind of going a bit wonky in the head via overwork. The Doctor has a shipment of SCIENCE DELIVERIES to stop from reaching the planet.
Said delivery is a container of the correctly calibrated gas which which Schriver is going to create the Eminence (and, looking at the cast list to get the correct spelling of "Schriver," I see that David Sibley is voicing both characters, so I guess that's the answer to how the Eminence started life, not as a random consciousness picked up by the gas, but as Schriver's mind forever voyaging), so the Doctor sets up some sabotage to get rid of the crew and set the ship to self-destruct. While this is happening, Sally runs into Liv on the planet and contacts the Master to let him know that the Doctor must be meddling nearby. The Master correctly divines the Doctor's plans and counter-sabotages him, setting his TARDIS adrift, making escape impossible. The Doctor counter-counter-sabotages him (good lord this is starting to sound like The Curse of Fatal Death now) but sort of screws up in his "escape while the Master gets blown up" plan and then they're both trapped on an imminently-exploding spaceship. YAY. Time to gripe at each other about their childhoods and motivations and all that bullshit! Whee! At one point the Master says that the Doctor considers himself "Judge, jury, and executioner," and as a Hot Fuzz fan, I shouted aloud to my car stereo "HE'S NOT JUDGE JUDY AND EXECUTIONER!"
The two Time Lords have a bit of a brainstorm and conclude that the only way out is to use the bit of the Eminence hiding in the Master (the Doctor let the Eminence loose in the Master's TARDIS at the end of Dark Eyes 2, and the only way the Master could get rid of it was to lock it away in his brain—it sounded like it made sense at the time), so Alex Macqueen turns his camp dial up to 11 and attempts to control the Eminence who's like "lol no." At this point the Doctor is all, "God you ALWAYS try this and it NEVER works" because seriously, unleashing some sort of unstoppable evil and assuming he can control it is the Master's MO.
Let's see, this is getting a bit long now. The Master throws the deaths of Lucie Miller and Alex Campbell in the Doctor's face. The storage bay in which they are sealed contains one of the transport coffins that will eventually hold Infinite Warriors, but which for now contains Molly O'Sullivan and the Eminence gas, and she is slowly infecting the gas with the retrogenitor particles in her dark eyes, which will eventually cause the Eminence's army to become the Master's (the Eminence is clueless about this bit for now, though). The Eminence sucks all the air out of the storage bay and the Master gloats that he was always better at relying on his respiratory bypass, which will at least enable him to watch the Doctor die. The Master, clearly unable to control the Eminence, bargains with it and gets it to withdraw. The Master then revives the Doctor because god knows he can't live without his best frenemy.
Meanwhile, Sally and Liv are trying to get Schriver on their respective sides and eliminate the competition. At one point Liv mentions that the Master has had any number of Sallies, passing him test tubes and telling him how wonderful he is WHICH MAY SOUND SOMEWHAT FAMILIAR if you are familiar with the Third Doctor and how Dr. Liz Shaw left. (I liked Liz, I wish she had been on the show longer than one season.) Schriver by this point is paranoid as all hell of everything, and locks them both up, destroys his research, and lets the computer decide which one of them to suck the brain out of for testing on the consciousness project. It chooses Sally, so she's dead and Liv's alive. (Although it wouldn't surprise me if Sally comes back as a facet of the Eminence now.) The Master returns squished into the transport coffin holding Molly's body and the Eminence gas, and he seems mildly perturbed that Sally's dead. (I hope he doesn't mourn. Not his style.) So he grabs Liv instead and heads off with her.
The Doctor, having protected himself in the crash somehow, is rescued by Narvin, who I guess was watching everything and not helping. That's the CIA for you.
My thoughts: Eh, what can I say. I like it when they fight.
Interested in seeing where the story with Liv goes (I like her), and whether Sally is truly gone (I'm guessing at least her voice will still be around as the computer interface). Also Molly needs to wake up, she hasn't had anything to do in the last two episodes. Finally, seriously what is the point of Narvin. I guess I need to listen to Gallifrey after this.Available from Big Finish.
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