Author: David Hogan

Doctor Who: The Bramble King Review

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The next story in the Halloween boxset (skipping over Doctor-less spin-offs for my wallet’s sake) is an Eighth Doctor / Audacity story that focuses on the classic “children’s folklore comes to life” idea but with the folklore of an alien tree-like species instead. It’s a perfectly good one-hour story but once again it feels more sci-fi than horror, which given the whole idea of this Halloween boxset was “spooky stories for Halloween” is a bit of a disappointment. Anyway, lets take a closer look…

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Doctor Who: Sea Smoke Review

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Kicking off a Halloween-themed boxset of stories (in January, if you needed a tip off as to how behind on Big Finish audio reviews I am…) is “Sea Smoke”, my first full experience of the recast First Doctor / Dodo combination, and I have to say… it didn’t do much to convince me to jump in. I mean, at the best of times I’m not all that interested in Hartnell era audios as I’m not all that interested in a fair few of the Hartnell era TV stories, but having some of the poorer recasts at the centre doesn’t help much. Anyway, let’s take a look at “Sea Smoke” on its own merits…

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Doctor Who: Operation: Vengeance Review

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The Third Doctor Adventures press on with a rather odd story that tries to blend classic pulpy sci-fi with World War II drama and ends up weakening both tried-and-true Who staples. That’s not to say “Operation: Vengeance” isn’t without merit, it has some great scenes with the Brigadier and The Doctor, but at six parts there is more dull than interesting… Let’s take a look!

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The Fantastic Four: First Steps Review

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Time to catch up with the MCU and talk about “First Steps”, finally introducing an MCU version of The Fantastic Four… sort of. The film takes place in another universe entirely, presumably explaining why they haven’t appeared before now and due to the events of Doomsday/Secret Wars will be integrated into the MCU proper at that point. Due to this distance from the MCU though they decided to create a much more comic-accurate version of the super team and world they inhabit, which was really fun. Let’s take a look…

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Doctor Who: The Price of Snow & The Ingenious Gentleman Review

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The “Wicked!” boxset’s second and third story sadly aren’t much better than the first one, which given the interesting premise of the boxset is a bit of a downer. Each story looks at the young Ace from a different perspective, which is a good thing to do with the box’s premise, but they don’t offer any interesting plot on top of it which makes them just dull stories that happen to feature a young Ace in them. Oh well, let’s take a look!

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Doctor Who: Backwards and in Heels Review

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“Backwards and in Heels” is the first story in the “Wicked!” boxset that takes place directly after Ace’s debut TV story “Dragonfire”, which is weird that it’s taken this long to get around to it when you think how long they’ve been doing Seventh Doctor audios… Anyway, the story being the first in the set means this is Ace’s first ever adventure and for that we get a very odd and not particularly exciting story. Let’s take a look…

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My Top 10 Games of 2025

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Last year I’d played so few that-year-released games that I had to put compilations and remakes all over the list, this year I’m happy to say there are no compilations and while entry #10 is two-thirds remaster it does have one-third entirely new game as well, so this is a much better look at games I’ve played in 2025 actually FROM 2025. I’m pretty sure Dynasty Warriors: Origins and Donkey Kong Bananza would’ve made it as well, but the former didn’t immediately appeal (due to going against what I like from DW games) and just hasn’t dropped in price all year and the other is a consequence on me only getting a Switch 2 for Christmas and only have so much free time! With that all said, let’s take a look!

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My Top 10 Doctor Who Stories of 2025

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2025 wasn’t a great year for Doctor Who. The actual TV show didn’t have a lot of highlights and was straight up hated on by a rather unpleasant part of the “fandom” and Big Finish audios didn’t do a great job of picking up the slack, though at least there were SOME highlights throughout the year, and the new on-going Ninth Doctor / Rose and Thirteenth Doctor ranges have been welcome additions… So let’s take a look, oh and I’ll point out that once again I haven’t listened to the December Big Finish releases yet (bar “Dare You”) so if any of those really stand out then, um… oh well!

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