It's a simple, innocent audio; Nyssa still sounds more like a girl than a young woman in that one, and the Doctor's shielding her eyes from the birds and the bees.
It's sweet. A stripped-down cast as is common for the one hour audios, with just four guest characters and really only two for most of it. Not the greatest story in the world, but Nyssa befriends a butterfly-girl about her own age who's a bit of a kindred spirit, while the Doctor finds a kindred spirit in the girl's father, and they have a minor adventure with the Zarbi running amok.
It's basically an excuse to revisit that fascinating environment -- the FX, sets and costumes weren't up to it, but of course with BF you can just imagine it, and it's got great visual imagery.
It reminds me a little of the bird-people story in Circular Time "Spring," except that there's no annoying voices. But similar in that part of the fun is just the imaginative and unusual setting, giving Nyssa and Five a chance to be space tourists and scientists.
I love it. It's light fluff, the Big Finish equivalent of a ficbit, but it's one of those I reach for when I need a Nyssa audio that's not depressing. ;)
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Date: 2016-01-27 08:01 am (UTC)It's sweet. A stripped-down cast as is common for the one hour audios, with just four guest characters and really only two for most of it. Not the greatest story in the world, but Nyssa befriends a butterfly-girl about her own age who's a bit of a kindred spirit, while the Doctor finds a kindred spirit in the girl's father, and they have a minor adventure with the Zarbi running amok.
It's basically an excuse to revisit that fascinating environment -- the FX, sets and costumes weren't up to it, but of course with BF you can just imagine it, and it's got great visual imagery.
It reminds me a little of the bird-people story in Circular Time "Spring," except that there's no annoying voices. But similar in that part of the fun is just the imaginative and unusual setting, giving Nyssa and Five a chance to be space tourists and scientists.
I love it. It's light fluff, the Big Finish equivalent of a ficbit, but it's one of those I reach for when I need a Nyssa audio that's not depressing. ;)