Big Finish's synopsis:
"New Vegas, 23rd Century – a sprawling city huddling beneath an artificial atmospheric bubble on a distant moon. Pleasure seekers flock there from every corner of the galaxy, to take in the shows and play the tables in the huge casinos. But beneath the glitz and the glitter, organised crime rules the streets.
Whilst Rose Tyler works as a waitress in the Full Moon nightclub, Jack Harkness poses as a reporter for the Daily Galaxy. Meanwhile, the Doctor is helping the police department with their investigation into The Whisper, a strange vigilante that has been terrorising the city’s underworld. But the Doctor is also on a mission of his own – to save Police Chief McNeil’s life at all costs."
It's Ninth Doctor month so let's get this reviewed! This was quite an interesting audiobook. Not the best in the range so far, but still, interesting. Due to the rights issues with Big Finish and new Who, it's the first thing Big Finish has produced that features the Ninth Doctor, Rose or Captain Jack. It appears to be set between Boom Town and Bad Wolf as Rose claims she's been to Raxicoricofallapatorius and Woman Wept.
The story starts with The Doctor, Rose and Jack visiting New Vegas in the 23rd century. While there, Rose gets a job as a waitress in a night club called The Full Moon, which is owned by Wolfsbane (not sure if that's how it's spelt but let's just leave it at that). Shortly after the story begins, the night club gets attacked. What's going to happen next!?
Nicholas Briggs did quite a good job for the most part - especially with the Eccleston voice, but the Captain Jack voice was just awful and McNeil sounds more like Jack than Jack! There's a nice little cameo from the Eleventh Doctor and he was voiced very well so that's certainly good. The Rose voice... Well, I'm not going to talk about that since it was basically just a slightly higher version of Nick Briggs' (extremely awesome) normal voice. The Wolfsbane voice was very good and I'd actually recommend this audio just to hear it. The voice of the Whisper was great - very sinister sounding.
The Whisper is a great villain - "Justice will be served - justice for all!" and what's more interesting is what the mysterious figure turns out to be. It's a legitimately creepy villain for a while.
I think the setting of New Vegas was pretty good. I'm guessing it has something to do with New Earth, especially with the slightly funny New New New Scotland Yard?
My favourite character featured in this story other than the main three is Wolfsbane. I kind of want to say the Eleventh Doctor but I believe that would be cheating, but that actually brings me onto the next bit...
My favourite line is "Just something Pond used to say!" from the Eleventh Doctor. Some other lines I like are "Stupid, stupid apes! You hit me, I'll hit you harder! Like that ever works!", "Justice will be served" and "Evil Knievel taught me everything I know!"
There are some legitimately great scenes such as the spud gun and banana thing. Daisy's scream really makes me feel uncomfortable because it's so loud - horrible for your ears, especially if you use headphones! Wolfsbane being addicted to e-cigars kind of reminded me of the First Doctor in An Unearthly Child so those were some nice scenes. The Doctor pretending to be Inspector George Dickson certainly put a smile on my face.
Overall, a nice addition to the Destiny of the Doctor series. Not overly amazing but certainly not bad. I think I'd just about recommend it, provided you're okay with audiobooks instead of full cast dramas. Nicholas Briggs is very good as usual, it's just a bit of a shame they couldn't get Billie Piper or John Barrowman to read this one.
Overall Rating: 7/10
You can buy Night of the Whisper for £3.99 download or £10.20 CD here.
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