Gods and Monsters (audio story)

Gods and Monsters
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Ace, Hex, Lysandra, Sally
Main enemy:	Fenric
Main setting:	Chess Board, Pocket universe
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writers:	Mike Maddox and Alan Barnes
Director:	Ken Bentley
Music:	Howard Carter
Sound:	Howard Carter
Cover by:	Barry Piggott
Release details
Release number:	164
Release date:	19 September 2012
Format:	2 CDs
Production code:	7W/AC
ISBN:	978-1-84435-945-5
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Gods and Monsters was the third story in the 2012 Seventh Doctor audio trilogy.

Publisher's summary

The TARDIS travellers arrive in a bizarre landscape seemingly immune to the physical laws governing the rest of the universe. Ace, Hex, Sally and Lysandra battle to rescue the Doctor from the trap he's walked into... soon realising that the odds are stacked against them.

Because the Doctor is playing an old adversary again: Fenric, shatterer of worlds. But the gods and monsters who inhabit this strange realm loaded the dice against them long ago, in the dim and distant past — and defeat's their only option.

Plot

Part one

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Part two

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Part three

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Part four

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Cast

• The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
• Ace - Sophie Aldred
• Hex - Philip Olivier
• Lysandra Aristedes - Maggie O'Neill
• Sally Morgan - Amy Pemberton
• Fenric - John Standing
• Hurmzid - Blake Ritson
• Weyland - Gus Brown
• The Ancient One - Tim Treloar
• Peggy Marsden - Elizabeth Bennett

References

• Ace once again refers to Sally as "Private Benjamin".
• Lysandra was born in 1982. As a young child, her favourite television series was Jimbo and the Jet-Set.
• Ace mentions the 1980s hip hop group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Sally does not understand the reference.
• Fenric takes Ace back to Perivale in 1987, the day that she was taken by the time storm, in an attempt to convince her to change history by preventing her younger self from leaving.
• Fenric also takes Sally and Lysandra into their personal future, where they will both die, when a fleet of white ships will destroy the entire universe. He does this to convince them to kill themselves, before they experience this potential future.
• Hex is a Catholic while Ace belongs to the Church of England.
• Weyland's shield has the ability to make one of his pawns invisible whenever they hold it. But it can grant an Elder God even greater omnipotent power.
• Weyland is an Elder God, who has manipulated the lives of the TARDIS crewmembers, in a similar way that Fenric previously did, so he can win his game against Fenric for the shield.
• Ace compares Weyland to Freddie Mercury due to his moustache.
• Peggy is working for Weyland, after he kidnapped Albert. However, when Peggy retrieves Weyland's shield, he kills Albert and Peggy.
• Sally suffers from athazagoraphobia, which was caused by Weyland manipulating her life, to foreshadow the invisibility effect of Weyland's shield.
• Weyland prevented Hex's death after being shot by Brigadier-General Bartholomew Kitchen in Scutari, because he would be a crucial pawn in his game against Fenric.
• The Elders play their games in a dimension called the Board.

Notes

• This story marks the first appearance of Fenric and the Haemovores in an audio drama.
• This audio drama was recorded on 23 and 24 January 2012.
• Subscribers whose subscriptions included this story also received the audio short story A Room With No View.

Continuity

• The Doctor says, "We play the game again", mirroring Fenric's first words after possessing Dr. Judson: "We play the contest again...Time Lord." (TV: The Curse of Fenric)
• Prior to Hex joining the TARDIS crew, Ace once visited Mars. (AUDIO: The Pyramid of Sutekh
• Fenric refers to Ace as "child of the baby." (TV: The Curse of Fenric)
• Ace mentions the Karnas'koi, (AUDIO: Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge) the Mi'en Kalarash (AUDIO: House of Blue Fire) and Moloch. (AUDIO: Protect and Survive)
• Lysandra is aware that Sally suffers from athazagoraphobia. (AUDIO: House of Blue Fire)
• In an alternative timeline, Sally uses the Truthsayer on Lysandra. In 2015, a younger version of Lysandra used it on Sally. (AUDIO: Project: Nirvana)
• Hex recalls being shot by Brigadier-General Bartholomew "Barty" Kitchen in Scutari on 19 November 1854. (AUDIO: The Angel of Scutari)
• Ace refers to her friend Midge. (TV: Survival)
• Weyland is revealed to be the blacksmith which the Doctor mentioned was located in Perivale. (TV: Dragonfire, Ghost Light)
• It is revealed that the chess sets in the Swiss sanatorium in 1926 were left there by Fenric. (AUDIO: The Magic Mousetrap)
• Fenric claims that he had a backup companion in mind for the Doctor, namely "a lovelorn motorcyclist...from Wales." This is a reference to Ray Defwydd. (TV: Delta and the Bannermen). This is an in-joke, as that character was, at one point, being considered as a new companion, before it was decided to introduce Ace.
• Weyland claims to have directly influenced the creation of the Forge, and manipulated the lives of all of its personnel. (AUDIO: Project: Twilight, et al.)

External links

• Official Gods and Monsters page at bigfinish.com