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On to another Benny audio, and this one's a sequel of sorts to the first Tom Baker story "Robot" from 1974. Though it's also inspired by a tie-in jigsaw featuring the robot released in 1978. For the full story see the "Notes" section of this audio's entry on the TARDIS Wiki website. This audio even features the original robot voice actor from the 1974 TV story, and has callback elements to that story. But you don't need to have seen the 1974 Doctor Who TV story to follow the audio.
Benny ends up on a planet - shot down! - with just a couple of human survivors and one robot. Why she's there is slowly revealed, and also the complicated goings on of the survivors and their back story. It's definitely one of those Benny audios where the often small cast numbers are too painfully apparent. With just a father and daughter plus robot as guest characters it does feel like a remarkably sparse setting.
It does become more interesting as you listen on, when things also expand somewhat. But I was hampered throughout by frustration with the daughter character, who I think I was meant to empathise with. Even Benny gets phenomenally frustrated with her. And this then lessened the impact of certain plot elements later.
However it's an ok audio, and Lisa Bowerman as Benny was fab as always. Benny in this archaeologist phase is definitely someone I'd like to have been in a scifi alternative me, flying from planet to planet to investigate relics and archaeological sites, with hefty doses of sarcasm and spunk. But it's also an audio that highlights some of the problems with the range.
Benny ends up on a planet - shot down! - with just a couple of human survivors and one robot. Why she's there is slowly revealed, and also the complicated goings on of the survivors and their back story. It's definitely one of those Benny audios where the often small cast numbers are too painfully apparent. With just a father and daughter plus robot as guest characters it does feel like a remarkably sparse setting.
It does become more interesting as you listen on, when things also expand somewhat. But I was hampered throughout by frustration with the daughter character, who I think I was meant to empathise with. Even Benny gets phenomenally frustrated with her. And this then lessened the impact of certain plot elements later.
However it's an ok audio, and Lisa Bowerman as Benny was fab as always. Benny in this archaeologist phase is definitely someone I'd like to have been in a scifi alternative me, flying from planet to planet to investigate relics and archaeological sites, with hefty doses of sarcasm and spunk. But it's also an audio that highlights some of the problems with the range.