M044 - Creatures of Beauty

I can't decide if there was a paradox in this story or I heard the parts out of order. I think I quite like the roundabout plot involving the Doctor and Nyssa being held by totalitarian police on a planet suffering from major atmospheric pollution, but the story takes so long to explain itself that some of the impact was lost.

Scenes of torture are not very good in audio because they involve a lot of screaming, and a few go on too long in this one. There is also the problem of no one telling the Doctor or Nyssa what is going on, which for the audience that arrives with them already captured is even worse because for the first hour there is nothing but questions without answers.

Some of the flashback structure that is used makes things more confused than they needed to be, but overall by the end I still feel like it was a good tale; just one that could have been a short story or a bonus release.