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Doctor Who: Dalek Empire #8
Dalek Empire II: Dalek War - Chapter Four
Two thousand years ago, the galaxy was devastated by a great catastrophe. No one really knows what happened. Some say it was the work of the ‘Dark One’ or the ‘Bringer Of Death’.
And in the ancient remains of a civilisation on the planet Velyshaa, a lonely outcast is uncovering evidence of who that terrible figure really was.
Could it be that Kalendorf’s determination to rid the galaxy of the Daleks will bring about the destruction of everything? Indeed, can the Daleks ever be truly defeated...?
And in the ancient remains of a civilisation on the planet Velyshaa, a lonely outcast is uncovering evidence of who that terrible figure really was.
Could it be that Kalendorf’s determination to rid the galaxy of the Daleks will bring about the destruction of everything? Indeed, can the Daleks ever be truly defeated...?
1 pages, Audio CD
First published April 22, 2003
About the author
Nicholas Briggs
326 books131 followersNicholas Briggs is a British actor and writer, predominantly associated with the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who and its various spin-offs. Some of Briggs' earliest Doctor Who-related work was as host of The Myth Makers, a series of made-for-video documentaries produced in the 1980s and 1990s by Reeltime Pictures in which Briggs interviews many of the actors and writers involved in the series. When Reeltime expanded into producing original dramas, Briggs wrote some stories and acted in others, beginning with War Time, the first unofficial Doctor Who spin-off, and Myth Runner, a parody of Blade Runner showcasing bloopers from the Myth Makers series built around a loose storyline featuring Briggs as a down on his luck private detective in the near future.
He wrote and appeared in several made-for-video dramas by BBV, including the third of the Stranger stories, In Memory Alone opposite former Doctor Who stars Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant. He also wrote and appeared in a non-Stranger BBV production called The Airzone Solution (1993) and directed a documentary film, Stranger than Fiction (1994).
Briggs has directed many of the Big Finish Productions audio plays, and has provided Dalek, Cybermen, and other alien voices in several of those as well. He has also written and directed the Dalek Empire and Cyberman audio plays for Big Finish. In 2006, Briggs took over from Gary Russell as executive producer of the Big Finish Doctor Who audio range.
Briggs co-wrote a Doctor Who book called The Dalek Survival Guide.
Since Doctor Who returned to television in 2005, Briggs has provided the voices for several monsters, most notably the Daleks and the Cybermen. Briggs also voiced the Nestene Consciousness in the 2005 episode "Rose", and recorded a voice for the Jagrafess in the 2005 episode "The Long Game"; however, this was not used in the final episode because it was too similar to the voice of the Nestene Consciousness. He also provided the voices for the Judoon in both the 2007 and 2008 series. On 9 July 2009, Briggs made his first appearance in the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood in the serial Children of Earth, playing Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary Rick Yates.
He wrote and appeared in several made-for-video dramas by BBV, including the third of the Stranger stories, In Memory Alone opposite former Doctor Who stars Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant. He also wrote and appeared in a non-Stranger BBV production called The Airzone Solution (1993) and directed a documentary film, Stranger than Fiction (1994).
Briggs has directed many of the Big Finish Productions audio plays, and has provided Dalek, Cybermen, and other alien voices in several of those as well. He has also written and directed the Dalek Empire and Cyberman audio plays for Big Finish. In 2006, Briggs took over from Gary Russell as executive producer of the Big Finish Doctor Who audio range.
Briggs co-wrote a Doctor Who book called The Dalek Survival Guide.
Since Doctor Who returned to television in 2005, Briggs has provided the voices for several monsters, most notably the Daleks and the Cybermen. Briggs also voiced the Nestene Consciousness in the 2005 episode "Rose", and recorded a voice for the Jagrafess in the 2005 episode "The Long Game"; however, this was not used in the final episode because it was too similar to the voice of the Nestene Consciousness. He also provided the voices for the Judoon in both the 2007 and 2008 series. On 9 July 2009, Briggs made his first appearance in the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood in the serial Children of Earth, playing Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary Rick Yates.
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November 27, 2014
Terrific ending to an excellent series - the best Doctor Who spinoff.
November 3, 2017
This one gets an extra star for a really fascinating scene between Gareth Thomas' Kalendorf and the Dalek Controller, which is really smart and insightful. Also, the mystery of the framing device is revealed and is interesting.
The rest of this is just nonsense.
Where the first series of Dalek Empire showed how well you could work with the Daleks on audio, this one feels like a slightly grander example of how they've been misused both on TV and audio for far too long. Both the Daleks and Cybermen have always worked best as insidious reflections of our worst natures, how we are just a few circuits away from being monsters. The trend to space opera that both villains' stories have been subject to since the end of the original tv series has served them poorly.
Please, Big Finish, thoughtful Dalek stories, stop screaming "Exterminate!" at me.
The rest of this is just nonsense.
Where the first series of Dalek Empire showed how well you could work with the Daleks on audio, this one feels like a slightly grander example of how they've been misused both on TV and audio for far too long. Both the Daleks and Cybermen have always worked best as insidious reflections of our worst natures, how we are just a few circuits away from being monsters. The trend to space opera that both villains' stories have been subject to since the end of the original tv series has served them poorly.
Please, Big Finish, thoughtful Dalek stories, stop screaming "Exterminate!" at me.
February 16, 2022
The frame of the story is very Asimov/Foundation-esque pulling out to a later era where Kalendorf is now a historical figure. Even the name Saloran Hardadew seems fairly close to Salvor Hardin, and there is a bit of a portrait here that Kalendorf was always a few steps ahead of the Daleks with all the telepathy mind game stuff with the Emperor Dalek etc. I'm still not 100% about certain details in the Alternative universe Daleks vs regular Dalek war, but I listened to this a few times, and I think I got the gist of it. Gareth Thomas is the perfect thespian for audio, though sometimes Big Finish drives me bonkers when characters scream in agony and blow out my ear drums. Odd hearing characters say 'shit' a lot in the Whoniverse.
March 18, 2022
Two and a half thousand years further into the future, worrying new signals are received from another galaxy. Will psychic records of the events that led to the Great Catastrophe help? The attitude of the alternate dalek leader, the Mentor – if you don't join our fight, then you are an enemy – feels like a metaphor for online activists.
June 2, 2022
あっさりとスーザンに殺されてるアルビー。
いやそんな....。
全てがすっかり記憶から失われかけてる歴史になるぐらい時が経ってるという設定でafter mathが語られる。
カーランドー武勇伝というか。
戦争に正解はないし終わりもない。また新たなダーレクがやってきつつあるというのがなんかもう希望がないけどそれがダーレクだからしょうがないのか。
Second thought
次に進むためにあらためて聴き直す。
カーランドーの命をかけてのスーザンをつかっての両ダーレク一掃作戦実行は今回の物語に十分なカタルシスを味合わせてくれているしそれだけに数千年後の視点から語られる当時の話とダーレク復活にはぞっとさせられる。
Free willが尊重される世界と都合の悪いことは排除しつくして秩序のある世界を維持するのか。
その後のキャストのインタビューが面白すぎて😂
A Boy meets a girl. A boy meets a girl again. Then a girl kills a boy. 彼女ともう一度巡り合うためにboyは足まで失ったのにー😭ってアルビー役の人が言ってるのがもう“わかるー！”みたいな😅
いやそんな....。
全てがすっかり記憶から失われかけてる歴史になるぐらい時が経ってるという設定でafter mathが語られる。
カーランドー武勇伝というか。
戦争に正解はないし終わりもない。また新たなダーレクがやってきつつあるというのがなんかもう希望がないけどそれがダーレクだからしょうがないのか。
Second thought
次に進むためにあらためて聴き直す。
カーランドーの命をかけてのスーザンをつかっての両ダーレク一掃作戦実行は今回の物語に十分なカタルシスを味合わせてくれているしそれだけに数千年後の視点から語られる当時の話とダーレク復活にはぞっとさせられる。
Free willが尊重される世界と都合の悪いことは排除しつくして秩序のある世界を維持するのか。
その後のキャストのインタビューが面白すぎて😂
A Boy meets a girl. A boy meets a girl again. Then a girl kills a boy. 彼女ともう一度巡り合うためにboyは足まで失ったのにー😭ってアルビー役の人が言ってるのがもう“わかるー！”みたいな😅
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 19, 2020
The Dalek Empire is at war with the Daleks! Wait? What? I suppose this should have been my opening line for Chapter One, but ... oh well. Spoilers.
This has been incredibly entertaining and the conclusion is certainly worth it. Great fun. And this is really classic space opera.
This has been incredibly entertaining and the conclusion is certainly worth it. Great fun. And this is really classic space opera.
December 15, 2017
Everything is awful and everything is over, and nobody wins. It's really a great ending.
May 12, 2016
I will make a combine review because honestly I can't rate this audiodrama without the rest becuase they are one big story...
Some spoilers ahead...
The Second series of Dalek Empire the main characters pass from Susan Mendes to Kalendorf. Here this story is focus of the battle betweeen the humankind and the new daleks against the old evil daleks. From the very beginning we get the feeling that the new good daleks are not that evil but at the same their goodness is by total control of everything. I think this 4 audiodramas should be only 2. What's interesting is that finally Alby Brook mets with Susan Mendes. In the end Kalendorff is succefull in breaking the deal with the good daleks making them return to their own universe (since the war will be ever going) and with the un-wanted help of Susan Mendes, now link to every Dalek, send a shockwaves killing every dalek. We later understand that one Dalek Survived. IT was very interesting to see how Susan Mendes evolved and had to choose between the love of her life (Alby) and Kalendorf - not in a romatic way.
The ending is quite good.
Some spoilers ahead...
The Second series of Dalek Empire the main characters pass from Susan Mendes to Kalendorf. Here this story is focus of the battle betweeen the humankind and the new daleks against the old evil daleks. From the very beginning we get the feeling that the new good daleks are not that evil but at the same their goodness is by total control of everything. I think this 4 audiodramas should be only 2. What's interesting is that finally Alby Brook mets with Susan Mendes. In the end Kalendorff is succefull in breaking the deal with the good daleks making them return to their own universe (since the war will be ever going) and with the un-wanted help of Susan Mendes, now link to every Dalek, send a shockwaves killing every dalek. We later understand that one Dalek Survived. IT was very interesting to see how Susan Mendes evolved and had to choose between the love of her life (Alby) and Kalendorf - not in a romatic way.
The ending is quite good.
November 3, 2015
In this episode of the Dalek Empire, we first shoot forward in time, finding a galaxy devastated by some long-forgotten catastrophe. As one of the last scholars of this event tells the tale, we find that the alternate-universe Daleks have left, beliving this universe no longer worthy of their attentions. Then comes the final confrontation between Kalendorf and Suz/The Dalek Emperor.
Overall good, though the framing device was a bit unwanted, seeing as it hasn't appeared in any of the rest of the series. Having it as a bit at the end would have been fine, but surrounding the episode, it felt odd.
Overall good, though the framing device was a bit unwanted, seeing as it hasn't appeared in any of the rest of the series. Having it as a bit at the end would have been fine, but surrounding the episode, it felt odd.
May 15, 2015
The ending leaves me wondering what will happen in Dalek Empire III. Also comes with bonus content titled "The Dalek Empire Strikes Back," which I have yet to give a listen.
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