Audio Review: Doctor Who - The Companion Chronicles: The Blue Tooth

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The Blue Tooth by Nigel Fairs


My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Liz Shaw was a companion with a short tenure, and this story takes on the task of exploring a bit of her backstory and giving her a bit of a personal life, as well as explaining some of the reasons for her off-screen departure at some point between the end of series 7 and the beginning of series 8.

However, aside from this welcome character development for Liz, I felt like the story lacked some punch. Possibly one reason is that at the climax of the story, our narrator, Liz, is actually unconscious - she, and we, get filled in on the resolution later. I can sort of see why the author chose this approach, but it does blunt the impact of the story.

Interestingly, in this audio, Caroline John doesn't attempt to do impressions of her co-stars to nearly the extent she did in her reading of Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters. Her reading still works well (probably better for some listeners than it would have been with the impressions). I also have to mention the music, which I thought had a very nice period feel to it.

Not among the best of the Companion Chronicle's range, but certainly good enough to make me look forward to Liz Shaw's return in the upcoming Shadow of the Past.

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