At times the music and some of the special effects did overpower the dialogue making it difficult to hear what was going on but that was only in a few parts. As the series is audience-funded, one of the things I might suggest is the creators release a download of some of the musical tracks that people could buy and the resulting money could go towards the production. I, for one, would put my hand in my virtual pay pal pocket for a copy. Once again it’s difficult to point out any one performance that stood out for me as the voice acting was all of such a high standard that it feels cheap to do so. Even the actors who only deliver a few lines do so with such conviction that you crave more from them (the pimp at the beginning of the episode: I’m looking at you).
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Julian Wadham (The Minister) and Kitty (Lauren Crace) have a prickly relationship at best and through them we get some of the best one-liners and comedic moments. However the bond between them is growing and it’s nice to see. Tasmin Greig who I last saw in the brilliant TV show Extras joins the cast as the “Sage of the Waves” and she doesn’t disappoint in the role. I hope we see more of her. Sylvester McCoy is at his scene chewing best as the conniving Witch Prime and he needs to be when he’s in scenes with Paul Darrow (Durian) and Paul McGann (Lord Rathen). All three actors are working hard this episode to earn my award of “Best Bastard in Minster of Chance”. The three characters they play all have their own agendas and each of them are trying to achieve them an a different way. The whole political backbiting is this episode was also a nice way to do a bit more world building while still advancing
the plot. Jenny Agutter (Professor Cantha) gets the most interesting character development in this episode and I’ll be interested to see where that leads in episode four. Episode two of the Minster of Chance built on its predecessor and was the stronger for it. It’s safe to say that episode three, P [ Y[??Y[ ???[?Y\? \???? ?]\?H ?[\ [?\?\??][ ? HX\?? ?]??[X[? ??X?HX?[??[?\X?]\?X?[ ???H[? ?[[?? ?X?X[Y??X? ?Y? [?x?&]?H??Y H?[??H ? ?\?] H ??? HZ[??\???[??H [?H ? ??? H ?X??[Y[? [?H? ???[??][?HX??] HZ[?\?\???[??H]Y[? ?\?Y\?] Z\? ?X??]K?\\??H ?YH\??]???[?][? H ?]?[?\?\\??\??[??H???YY???H \???][?????\??H?Y?[???][?????????????