The best bit of The Maltese Penguin is the blurb in the CD booklet. And we finally know who the empty chair in Power of the Doctor belonged to. Frobisher clearly missed that meeting.
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I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t love it. I got kind of bored halfway though because like, it’s a pastiche to noir with nothing to say. It’s taking the novelty of the shapeshifting penguin and expecting that to do the heavy lifting instead of actually being a story. Idk, maybe if I cared more about noir, I would have found it funnier. But I don’t, and I didn’t
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Doctor Who does a Cartoon Noir Parody!
At first this sounds kinda odd of a idea, but if we learned anything from Who… Weird Ideas often turn out as some of its most interesting Entries in the Whoniverse. And while it’s far away from being an amazing Parody, it’s still quite enjoyable! I think the Parody Part was done quite solid, you get your usual Tropes from the Noir Genre (Femme Fatal, a loner Detective etc) and while this Release does nothing new with the very much formulaic Idea of a Genre Parody, it still executes it quite well. Especially the Dialogue is absolutely enjoyable here. It’s a shame we didn’t get much more from Frobisher on Audio (I still need to get around to the Holy Terror) but going from this one, the Character works quite well on Audio. For a Sherman Script, it’s more on the lighter Side (which could be surprising for some), but I think he still delivered a quite fun Story here. I’d think it needs to be said that this might very well be the weakest Shearman Story that I got to listen/read/watch so far.
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