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Listen to me!!The innovative achievement of a Universal Translator in a beauty product has the Doctor heading off with Amy to congratulate the inventors and learn just how they have managed to create such a marvel. But with the first shipment already on its way to Earth, the Doctor discovers a rather unexpected, and unpleasant, side-effect that could spel something rather more than a simple marketing disaster should it reach its destination.
This story has all the classic elements: excitement, adventure, action, pathos, hubris, faintly ludicrous security guards doing stupid things, faintly arrogant scientists doing even more stupid things, the Doctor, Companion and TARDIS all being separated while the opening theme is still echoing in your ears... The list goes on. Jason Arnopp has managed to squeeze in most of the tropes you would expect to find in a traditional Doctor Who story, and crucially, has managed to do it WELL.
With no Rory to swell the numbers, the narrative keeps to only two fairly simple strands, the Doctor and Amy each having to deal with their myriad issues, in a lab and on a spaceship respectively, on their own. Neither get much help from the guest cast, who seem to be far too depressed, angry or overly familiar, to be of any real use. And why is everyone talking all the time, can't they just listen for once?
AudioGO's policy of using apparently random, but very talented, guest cast from the new TV series has really helped what is already an enormously fun story. Meera Syal uses her versatile acting skills to give us a good range of distinct voices and accents, being the first to actually give us a close approximation of Karen Gillan's Amy, and for once, everyone is clearly defined, making the story so much easier to follow. I must confess though, I never thought of the 11th Doctor as having a faintly Brummie accent... (Posted on 23 March 2013)
Would you recommend this product to a friend? Definitely yes
Fast paced and imaginativeWould you recommend this product to a friend? Definitely yes
The Gemini Contagion is another in a growing collection of CD and MP3 audiobooks featuring an adventure with Doctor Who and his trusty companion Amy. This time we are taken into an icy world that hides a deadly secret. Read by British comedian and actress Meera Syal, a planet named Vinsk is the cold setting for this Doctor Who story that features the eleventh Doctor on another one of his adventures.
The year is 2112 and a new handwash has just been brought out known simply as Gemini. It has been secretly filled with Meme-Spawn, which will ensure that anyone who uses it will be able to speak every language in the galaxy – fluently. While the handwash sounds promising, the soap was never tested on humans and the Doctor soon learns that it has an adverse affect on anyone who touches it.
While their hands might be super clean and their ability to speak any language a bonus, the human population begins to suffer from a powerful urge to communicate in every language all at one time. A manic garble ensues and soon a deadly second and third stage to the problem evolves. To add to the Doctor’s woes, Amy faces an impending danger of being infected as she is split up from the Doctor.
The Doctor is left with an awful choice to make – does he save Amy or planet Earth?
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