Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #133892 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-01
• Format: Audiobook
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 2
• Binding: Audio CD

Customer Reviews

A Wintry Affair
Frozen Time continues the Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) strand of the Big Finish Doctor Who range. Featuring the welcome return of one of the classic series' most understated villains (the clue is in the title) and for once featuring no companions, this is a vibrant and accomplished success.
The story begins with The Doctor being ambushed on an unnamed planet and appearing to drown. Fast-forward several million years and his body is discovered by a group of explorers led by the sneeringly arrogant Lord Barset, who is retracing the steps of one of his ancestors who set out on the journey and never returned. However, when they discover The Doctor's body it is sealed in a tomb of ice...
Maryam D'Abo is a welcome addition to the cast as French scientist Genevieve whilst Anthony Calf and Gregg Newton excel as the shortsighted Barset and his downtrodden minion, Ben.
The story provides a welcome reminder of how good McCoy can be when surrounded by a decent cast and cracks along at a fair pace; The Doctor's opponents are solid and suitably villainous and the entire cast just seem to be enjoying themselves.

Disappointing in Some Ways. Brilliant in Others!
Seventh Doctor on his own doesn't really work for me. He seems rather detached from the world and confused, perhaps that comes of millenia frozen in Ice, but I think not, instead trying develop a darker side to the older McCoy Doctor, as with Valhalla without any companions, perhaps this time missing them rather than his bitterness towards the 'free-loaders' of Valhalla - but this still makes the Doctor harder to relate to that of the 1980s on TV. The plot is quite strong, it's got the standard Big Finish aspect to it, the characters were well played, but...

[SPOILERS] In episode 2 I was well of the opinion that the mysterious creatures the first Lord Barset had met were the Ice Warriors and the new met creatures were, something else, possibly the Silurians. In fact it was the other way round - modern day sees the Ice Warriors and its suggested it was the Silurians in the past (in the extras) which was a bit dissapointing, but also, I really don't think this works with Ice Warriors. Firstly they didn't seem convincing, the hissing sound seemed optional half the time it wasn't there and I dno if the Ice Warriors were right there.

[NO MORE SPOILERS] But all in all it's pretty good, the rest of the cast (excluding the Doctor & the Monsters) was great, some really nice characters. But just lacking that something, perhaps a bit too predictable and expected. Re-listening, it's much more enjoyable and far more interesting!

Frozen Time
An expedition to the Antartic unearths a frozen 7th Doctor, the TARDIS, and numerous reptilian aliens...

'Frozen Time's main draw is that of it's returning villains, a classic Doctor Who monster used before by Big Finish in a rather dire outing some years ago, though to be honest once they appear the story doesn't really find anything new to do with them, and relies heavily on the creatures debut television story.

The best way to describe this story would be 'workmanlike' - it moves along at a reasonable pace, the performances are all solid enough - it just lacks any really inspired ideas to elevate it above the average. The play's one attempt to throw a curve ball is giving the Doctor temporary amnesia from being frozen for thousands of years, but beyond a few structural tweaks this is your bog-standard traditional Doctor Who monster runaround.

By no means a bad story, 'Frozen Time' is solid but uninspired fare.