Doctor Who: Scherzo

Hey Guys,

let’s talk about Scherzo of Doctor Who. It is part of the main range of the Doctor Who audio story – to be excatly number 52. To be clear it is maybe not a good starting point for people, who don’t know much adventures of the eighth Doctor and don’t know Charley (Charlotte Pollard). Like you maybe know for me it was like that. Of course… i had the same problem with the last companions Fitz and Anjal.

It is the first adventure that plays in the Divergent Universe. The problem with it is that you need the story before to fully understand what is happing. So beaware that now everything can be a spoiler.

Charlotte Pollard

She is one of the human companion of the Doctor. She seems to have a interessting timeline. Because she is the companion of the eighth Doctor, but later she apparently travels with the sixth Doctor.
So it seems that the eighth Doctor saved Charley from her death that seems to be a fixpoint in time, what breaks the law of time and the time lord handled it with exile him in to the Divergent Universe and Charley is following him there.
Later she meets the sixth Doctor what is problematic because of the foreknowledge of his future. Even later the Doctor have to explain his actions to her.

Start of the Story

We get through in the story. The Doctor is exiled and have to choose to go in the light or the dark. The light is like we get to know the Divergent Universe. But this isn’t the decision of the Doctor it is the decision of Charley. The Doctor seems in this story to be again on a point were he give up (what seems to be a habid of the eighth Doctor). He wants to die.
Charley in this story is really sympatic to me. She isn’t to let the Doctor throw shit at her and that what he does the whole time. He is that asshole timelord we all love once in a while. The first two episodes were almost just the two of them fighting or ignoring each other.

Boring?

Does it sound boring maybe. But it is an amazing story and it give the characters so much time to shine and struggle. We just have the two of them and we can see so much of how it looks like in them. We hear Charley struggling with the way the Doctor is dealing with things. Also apparently the Doctor told her that he loved her, but know he tells her that he didn’t mean it. Charley get’s really emotional and i think everyone can feel with her hear. The Doctor is just like really you want to this things now? And to be truthful this is a side of the Doctor i missed. Totally don’t get why somethings seems so important to human, just things about the mystery and giving everyone the fault just not himself.

Fighting back?

This story shows us a perfect inside of the Doctor and why he chooses this companions. This Story is characterisation of him. Everything is so much the Doctor. This is the most interessting in this story to see which things you find in every Doctor and the things that just are the parts of the eigtht. It is amazing how the Doctor is charactisated here. Charley also is fighting her place into my heart.

If you want a really good story, with really good character inside. Listen to Scherzo. It is really amazing. I love it already really much. I hope Big Finish never stops make such amazing stories.