It’s time to listen to and discuss Omega
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I was kind of disappointed by Omega. The idea of a Time Lord guided historical tour sounded cool as hell, but after a while the audio kind of felt like a drag. There’s tons of cool parts and details that make this setting feel very real. There’s this scene where a medical droid witnesses his patient being strangled. Practically panicking, it tries to stop the altercation verbally before suspending its “Hippocratic protocols” and knocking the assailant down.
The idea of Omega possessing the body of the Doctor and exploring their similarities was fun but kind of felt underdeveloped. And I didn’t really like how Sentia’s character was written.
It was decent but had some serious faults. 5/10 from me.
Omega marks the beginning of the excellent Villain Trilogy and, whilst not terrible, it definitely is the weak link of the three.
A fun setting and great twist halfway through certainly help the story but it trips over its own lore too often and Omega isn’t half as intimidating as he should be.
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I really enjoyed Omega. Definitely the weakest of the 3 villain stories but it still has some wonderful ideas. The history tour is fun and theres some great interactions between Omega and the Doctor. I gave it an 8/10. Fun, but the next two are definitely stronger stories.
A solid story. Not perfect. I love the twist. Not necessarily a nothing burger of a story but just not a lot to talk about.
I feel like the odd ones out here, because some of the criticism I hear are some of the strongest points for me. It’s definitely much more flawed as a Story than the other two that follow, but, and this is a big “but”, as BF goes for that time period, I think they nailed it (for the most part).
Especially the first Half of the Story is incredible. Ending with such a good Cliffhanger Ending, easily one of my favorites. The second half loses some of its focus and at times can be frustrating, still the good outweigh the bad for me.
A Highlight here is easily Ian Collier, who returns from Arc of Infinity and while there is a point to make that every time Omega returned, they didn’t nail him as they did the first time. For me while weaker, it’s still an improvement over Arc and gives Collier more quiet Moment, which he works much better than the more shouty approach we are used to Omega. Some Exploration of Omega was done rather well, I thought, even if at times it fell into the trap of the Timelord feeling too much like human society. They are at some of their best, when we get the more alien aspects to them.
Davison gives here a stellar Performance, the other Voices do a solid job and nobody fells too out of place.
As far as a first Who Script goes (Fountain apparently wrote a Benny Short Story before, but this is its own thing), I think it’s marvelous, despite being consumed by some of its ambition.
I realised this week that I totally forgot to listen to this last week, so had some catching up to do!
This was an interesting story. Strong performances, a nice central idea, and a really good exploration of the Omega/Doctor relationship. It’s not the most exciting story, but it’s one of the stronger Fifth Doc audios.
And the twist - genuinely clever!
Loved Ertikus as a sort of Chronotis rip-off. Didn’t love the love story between Omega and Sentia, which felt similar to the Master/Lucy rubbish from Series 3.
Interested to find put how this compares to the other two in the trilogy.
7/10
Honestly a very underrated part of the trilogy.
Davros one is still my favourite, but this one doesn’t deserve the hate.
The setting was fun, and the plot twist was so damn good and there is no way it would’ve worked on TV
The satire in this is really really good (as I’ve started to notice is usually so with mr Fountain), I love the commentary on commercialized history and how it then thematically continues by having Omega and the Doctor literally become the same person (kinda), then Omega’s identity crisis being solved by revealing that he’s not actually that horrible, the Doctor being shown to be the evildoer, and then the ending being that the Doctor’s place in history ends up being exactly as Omega’s was. Kebeem my mind was blown. It’s so brilliant, I had to repeat it here. The way it all circles back together, that nope, Doctor, to history you are exactly like Omega. Super rewarding when it all clicks imo.
The twist where it is revealed that the Doctor is actually Omega was brilliant, even if it came a teeny bit out of nowhere for me, because even if it makes sense with what came before in the story, I still thought like, why can that just happen. Apparently it’s something from his TV appearances? So it’s fine. I am the fake Doctor Who fan, I’ve not even watched this show man I just listen to the funny audios.
A pretty big problem I have with this story though is that I think it’s horrendously paced. Guys I don’t think anything even happens in part 2. Great, mystery about what’s going on, but I had already assumed everyone’d just gone mad and stopped thinking about it. Here another ten minutes of walking around, oh, what’s this, it’s something scary, insert epic DW music cue, and now move on to the Doctor and Omega yapping about nothing for another 10 minutes. I get that it all builds up to have that part 3 cliffhanger be a real shocker, but I’d just become too disinterested to find the extended length of the walking around the spaceship to have any effect. I would have liked another subplot maybe, or at least a less vague goal during those parts.
8/10 for tragic sad Omega and his mental health
I didn’t gel with this one, it may be a “me” problem but I was finding it really hard to tell what was going on, and even after reading the plot on the wiki I still didn’t really get some of it.
The comedy stuff was too silly for me and the peoples names too confusing so I literally have no idea what the point of it all was.
I feel like it would be better with a re-listen but I’d rather listen to literally anything else.
Oh well!
2.5/5
Throwing my hat in the ring with a contrary opinion: this is comfortably the best of the villains trilogy. A bit predictable of me maybe, but I really love Omega as a character so I absolutely relish all of the lore this story builds around him. It feels like a natural follow up to what we get in Arc of Infinity, showing a more tragic and sympathetic side to Omega. It’s so good that as much as I love him, I don’t particularly want Omega to come back for fear of diminishing returns, this and his TV stories make a wonderful trilogy and while I’m aware there’s other stuff I haven’t yet ventured there!
Then there’s one of the most masterful plot twists in all of Doctor Who history that makes relistens oh so rewarding. I’m so glad I was able to go in unspoiled and I urge anyone reading this thread to stop and experience it for themselves. It’s the sort of trick you can only really pull off once and what a great use of it this story is.
I feel like commenting on this one because I really liked it. Working through in order so haven’t got to Davros or Master yet, but this is only the 4th monthly adventure I’ve given 4.5 stars to so far (and I haven’t given 5 stars to anything yet).
I liked that it was complex enough that I didn’t see the twist coming a mile off, made good use of being an audio story, had nuance in the character of Omega (largely missing from the original TV series, if I remember correctly, although it’s been many many years since I’ve seen them), and had a light touch of humour that I didn’t find distracting.
I feel like Omega benefits from rare appearances that prevent him being overused and tired (cough cough Rassilon cough cough).
Since the consensus seems to be that Davros and Master are better, I’m really looking forward to those two 
