DW Audios: The Curse of Davros (6th Doctor)

[caz963]

I think that Six has become my favourite audio Doctor, so I've been eagerly looking forward to the next set of BF audios to feature "ol' Sixie", as Colin Baker affectionately terms him.

So it makes me sad to confess that I wasn't exactly bowled over by The Curse of Davros. There were things about it I really liked, and others I didn't - and one

Comments

[nostalgia_lj]

Is Flip significantly younger than the people writing her? (She said, thinking of Ace's less stellar moments of youth.)

[nwhyte]

I reckon you're right about that; I doubt if the actress playing her had been born when Six was on TV.

My disappointment with this story was for more Belgian reasons (yet again we are a site for someone else's battles), But I did think there was one interesting thing about Flip - she is in some ways Big Finish's answer to Rose, another young Londoner who loses her job and leaves her non-white boyfriend for the sake of travel with the Doctor. BF pioneered the explicit Doctor/companion romance with Eight/Charley; perhaps they are now having a go at doing Rose from a different direction, without the romance?

[nostalgia_lj]

You say that like Six isn't so attractive that romance is inevitable!

[caz963]

The parallels with Rose struck me, too, but even though she's one of my least favourite companions of the new series, I don't remember her voice or accent grating on me quite so much!