Written by Nev
Ever wonder
what happened to Peri after Trial of a Time Lord? Ever wonder how her life was once Yrcanos
took her back to Krontep to be his queen?
Ever wonder what her feelings would be towards The Doctor once he
returned to get her? Well Big Finish has given us the answers and more in The
Widow’s Assassin. This new range release
is the first in the mini trilogy for the Sixth Doctor as we find him making an
attempt to return to Peri and apologize for what happened to her at the end of
their ordeal with Krozier and Kiv. But
The Doctor did not get the welcome he thought he would get and could you blame
Peri for the icy reception. Well no you
couldn’t especially after who she was stuck with all these years and now her
husband is dead and a killer on the loose with her own life at stake. Guess The Doctor got there in time to help
save Peri whether she wants his help or not but he’ll have to figure out how to
help from the jail cell Peri placed him in.
The Widow’s
Assassin was not what I was expecting at all.
For the most part the main story was really good. I was enjoying the
murder mystery of who poisoned Yrcanos and then Peri but I was sort of
disappointed with the way it all came together and who actually inhabited
Peri’s brain. What I was expecting was
a Peri that would be very upset with The Doctor and very reluctant to want to
see him again let alone have to accept his help with the current crisis. In fact I would have expected more hateful
comments from Peri. What I also did not
expect was the way the ending resolved everything. Apparently Mandrake was able to take over
Peri’s brain somewhere during the ending of Mindwarp and was the one
responsible for killing Yrcanos and for poisoning Peri just so he could take
over The Doctor’s body. No not what I
expected as I was expecting a story in which The Doctor has to save Peri again
and to gain her trust in him again that would allow her to go back into the TARDIS
again. Not having Peri being Mandrake
for all that time and having Peri’s consciousness being buried away the whole
time.
With that
being said I did find The Widow’s Assassin to be entertaining and I did enjoy
the story that was made by Big Finish.
It was pretty clever and did have some good moments but the whole
Mandrake stuff was just not doing it for me as I found that it complicated
things way too much. I did like the
explanation for The Doctor knowing what was going to happen as there were three
aspects of The Sixth Doctor running around.
I did like the murder mystery part and the part of trying to figure out
who poisoned Peri. I just wasn’t too
taken with the ending and solution to this story which I believe I have harped
on too much already. The performances by
Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant were top notch and Nicola Bryant was able to
expand on her performance and give us a different much older Peri than the one
we are used too. Plus she also gets to
break out the evil Peri voice again. In
all, The Widow’s Assassin wasn’t what I was expecting but it was a decent story
none the less just let down by a complicated ending.
Grade C
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