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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Doctor Who Dust Breeding by Mike Tucker Doctor Who: Dust Breeding by Mike Tucker. A Bad Quotation: " The girl from Perivale hits the jackpot again! " (Ace) The Terileptils, who created a sculpture placed in the Doctor's playroom, appeared as the main villains in the Fifth Doctor story The Visitation . The Doctor references the Fourth Doctor's City of Death when talking to Ace about the Mona Lisa. Bev Tarrant previously met the Seventh Doctor and Ace in The Genocide Machine . The Master's previously used aliases include Colonel Masters ( Terror of the Autons ) and Sir Gilles Estram ( The King's Demons ). The Master threatens to shrink Klemp to the size of a toy, referencing his tissue compression eliminator first used by "Colonel Masters" in Terror of the Autons . I'll Explain Later: The Master clearly disapproves of Madame Salvadori and her beguilement, as well as that of all of her guests, describing them as base peddlers of human misery and calling them uncivilised. How come this Master is so moral? This is the same incarnation who inhabited Nyssa's father Tremas, who would never have espoused such views. The Inquisitor's Judgement: Dust Breeding has a number of good ideas; the eeriest painting of human history being painted as a way for Munch to exorcise the screams of an alien life form in his head, the Master behind a bejewelled mask mixing with the corrupt upper echelons of society aboard an airborne art gallery, a planet with Daleks' screams echoing from the sands. Unfortunately the final script is too busy for its own good, with none of these ideas being given the focus or properly fleshed out. Instead, Dust Breeding messily jumps between various things as though it hopes it might be able to avoid good storytelling by distracting you with cool ideas. Without the first Big Finish appearance of the Master, this would be a forgettable, below average release. I'd rank this story as a D . Doctor Who: Dust Breeding by Mike Tucker. Released June 2001. ‘Dust Breeding’ finally brings the Master into the Big Finish universe, with Geoffrey Beevers reprising the role. Big Finish apparently originally intended to have Anthony Ainley return as the Master, but his demands were too much to make his reprisal a realistic possibility. As it is, however, Beevers possesses a voice that simply exudes everything that is the Master, and so his presence in ‘Dust Breeding’ is superb even if the plot contrivance to explain his being back as a post-‘Survival’ Master is rather overly complicated. The Master’s nefarious plan is to gain control of the sentient Warp Core weapon by using eggs of the Krill, a humanoid creature first seen in the novel ‘Storm Harvest;’ of course, it doesn’t go exactly as he envisions and the Doctor ends up intervening. Actually, though, ‘Dust Breeding’ is full of intriguing concepts, notably a planet as a work of art and sentient dust-like beings that spend centuries trapped inside the painting ‘The Scream’ with the Doctor rushing to save that same painting before its destruction. Unfortunately that sentient superweapon that became more powerful than its creators foresaw never really reaches its full potential and in a sense becomes just another routine power for the Doctor to go up against. However, the story also makes good use of the Daleks without actually having them present in the story. The planet Duchamp 331, the setting of ‘Dust Breeding,’ has a legend that the background noise on the planet is the result of a Dalek saucer having crashed long ago and its crew being sucked into the omnipresent dust. It’s quite disconcerting to hear what are clearly Dalek cries so continually, but the effect is a great one nonetheless, and one that has never before or since been replicated. The Doctor and Ace are fantastic as always, Sophie Aldred bringing a more vulnerable side of Ace to the forefront, and Beevers effortlessly returns as the Master at his most conniving and menacing. McCoy and Beevers capture the nuanced relationship between the Time Lord foes excellently despite never having confronted each other on screen, and this relationship truly drives the story along. However, the rest of the supporting performances are quite strong as well. Louise Faulkner’s Bev Tarrant, last heard in ‘The Genocide Machine,’ returns as another surrogate companion for McCoy and she fills the role admirably while rounding out her character a bit more fully. Johnson Willis’s portrayal of the crazed Damien is inspired, becoming even more emotionally manic when he joins with the Warp Core, and Ian Ricketts is also quite fun as the heroic Guthrie. Undoubtedly, though, the other notable big piece of casting is in Caroline John who, while not returning to the role of Liz Shaw she made famous alongside Jon Pertwee, gives a very memorable performance as the art dealer Madame Salvadori. Her accent is maybe a little ostentatious, but it never detracts from her scenes, and it’s immense fun to have the real-world couple of Shaw and Beevers together in a Doctor Who performance. Mike Tucker again proves that he’s something of an expert on the Seventh Doctor and Ace era of the programme, and the characterization of both is top-notch. With strong supporting performances and a rich atmosphere, ‘Dust Breeding’ comes as a genuine surprise from Big Finish that should quite successfully stand the test of time. The Doctor’s collecting of art treasures at points when they ‘historically vanish’ is a little suspect and, although it keeps in line with references about his collection he made in ‘City of Death,’ seems like a quirk more in line with the Meddling Monk than the Doctor. Still, it sets the plot in motion and what follows is a fun and emotional tale that tonally fits in well with the late 80s and The New Adventures range. Doctor Who: Dust Breeding by Mike Tucker. 159c 'Dust Breeding' CD audio adventure released June 2001, 4 episodes. Writer: Mike Tucker Director: Gary Russell. Roots: Dust Breeding by Man Ray. The Blakes 7 episode 'Sand' (a sentient sand possesses bodies), Sapphire and Steel (force being captured in pictures), Star Trek (the Warp Core, plus the Voyager episode 'Warhead'), Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace (backwater desert planet, hyperdrive, plus a character called 'J Binks'). Beyond the planet being named after the artist Marcel Duchamp (who also created a picture called 'Dust Breeding', a copy of which was coincidentally hanging in the Big Finish studio, and which appeared on the CD cover), some character names appear to be based on artists, including Salvadore (Salvador Dali), Klemp (Gustav Klimt), and of course Damien Person (Damien Hurst - he even uses clear isolation tanks in his 'art'). Bev paraphrases Casablanca ('of all the planets, I had to pick this one. '). A Nightmare on Elm Street and sequels (Ace asks of the Master 'Who's Freddy Krueger?'). Intertextuality: The Krill were created by Mike Tucker for his BBC Book Storm Harvest , the events of which are related to Bev by Ace (despite Bev knowing of the planet Coralee, this obviously took place after she was last in contact with anyone from there - see 'The Genocide Machine') Goofs: Bev has visited Coralee before (see: 'The Genocide Machine'), yet Ace does not pick up on this when describing her and the Doctor's first encounter with the Krill [presuming that she was alluding to the events of Storm Harvest - see 'Roots'. If this is so, the events of the book may have taken place on a future date from this adventure, explaining Bev's ignorance of Coralee's invasion]. She identifies the Krill twice to Bev. The Krill alternate from being afraid of Bev because of the Core-affected dust on her, to one punching its way through a star cruiser hull into space to attack the planet. Technobabble: The Doctor manages to "reverse the polarity". Double Entendres: 'I'm sorry ma'am. I couldn't resist him.' 'It's evil, Damien' (must be an omen!) 'You can't know, not until you've been touched.' Dialogue Triumphs: 'You've spent your life looking at masks Madame Salvadore, without ever wondering what lay beneath them. Would you like to see beneath my mask. ' Continuity: The Doctor collects masterpieces of art, usually rescuing the works in question just before they are due to be destroyed or lost forever. Among his private collection are one of the seven 'Mona Lisa' painted by Leonardo da Vinci (not the one hanging in the Louvre, but another - presumably retrieved from Count Scarlioni's basement before it was destroyed), and Rembrandt's 'The Night Watch' (rescued from the 33rd century before fire was to have destroyed it). He also has an untitled example of Terileptil sculpture, which Ace compares to 'an explosion in a glass factory'. The Krill are a living weapon created 'long ago' by an unknown race. Virtually indestructible, they attacked the planet that was to become Duchamp 331 before its inhabitants developed a super weapon, the Warp Core, to defeat them. Though not utterly defeated, the Krill were scattered and, like the Core itself, instinctively seek out their enemy. After its victory the Warp Core sought to explore the Universe, and in its attempt destroyed its creators and their world (reducing it to a barren planet covered in a shifting dust ocean) before escaping and roaming the cosmos. At one point, exhausted, it rested on earth in the nineteenth century, where, in Norway the artist Edvard Munch encountered it in his famous recollection of this inspiration for his most famous painting 'The Scream'.

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