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Doctor Who - Omega

Posted By: thingska
Doctor Who - Omega

Doctor Who - Omega
Time: 02:05:00 | Publisher: Big Finish Productions Ltd | ISBN: 1844350290 | 1 Aug 2003
Language: English | Audiobook in MP3 / 256 kbps | ~270 MB

I was very impressed with this story. Omega is the first of four specials that Big Finish released to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of everyones favourite time lord. An inspired idea, having each drama focus on a villain from the series. At time of review i have not heard the next three. I approached Omega with characteristic trepidation, knowing full well the possibility of the spoiling the series continuity by ruining Omega as a character. In The Three Doctors he was a raving lunatic, in Arc of Infinity a troubled loony with a little heart. In Omega, well, without spoiling anything, they don't ruin his image.
"Jolly Chronolidays" delivers elderly tourists to areas of great historic interest throughout the universe and their latest venture is to where Omega first used the stellar manipulator to create the black hole from which all time travel originally derives, the "sector of forgotten souls." The Doc ( is on board, as well as a couple of actors ( and a bus load of tourists. I had predicted what was to happen next, (surely Omega will reappear and try to destroy the universe) but spectacularly Nev Fountain flips everything on its head and delivers a spellbinding story gripping from start to finish. The layers of psionic energy in the sector means nobody's ever quite sure who every one else is and the looming shadow of Omega himself is never far from the Doctor's thoughts. Just what is going on? Why is the actor playing Vandokeirion threatening to cut off his hands and calling himself "the conscience of the universe?" Why is the stewardess Sentia so driven to entering the black hole? IS Omega actually present or is it just madness…on everyone's part?