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The Entropy Composition was a 2010 Big Finish full-cast audio short story featuring the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa.
It was notable for being a rare example of a Big Finish audio which had been commissioned as a result of an open invitation for scripts. Writer Rick Briggs won out over about a thousand other submissions.
Publisher's summary
A lost prog rock symphony is unearthed from the vaults — with catastrophic consequences for the entire cosmos.
Plot
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Cast
References
The Doctor
- The Doctor dislikes being referred to as "sweet."
Species
- Entropy Sirens are an ancient race, existing just after the creation of the universe.
Events
- The Terileptis Event Horizon Fold is, according to the Doctor, the most magnificent sunrise in the area of space-time he and Nyssa are in.
Notes
- Other such "open submission" scripts can be found on Short Trips: Volume 1 and its successors.
Continuity
- Mrs Moloney queries whether the Doctor is wearing a vegetable, to which he replies, "It's decorative" — thereby echoing the Tenth Doctor's assessment of the his fifth incarnation's celery. (TV: Time Crash)
- Nyssa refers to "The Entropy Composition" as the "music of the spheres", a name used by the Doctor to describe a different phenomenon in the mini-episode of that name.
- Nyssa is still thinking about her happy childhood on Traken. (AUDIO: The Demons of Red Lodge)