In terms of the first series of “Fourth Doctor Adventures” this was the story I was most looking forward to revisiting as I remembered strongly liking this story at the time. It’s a simple but effective idea: send Leela back to the time of Boudica and watch the Doctor look on in horror as she finds a kindred spirit she wishes to help, despite the fact history has other ideas. Let’s take a look!
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The Renaissance Man is an odd one, and I don’t mean it how I normally do in terms of “hard to talk about for reasons” but I mean it in that it’s intentionally an odd one! Full of surreal humour and scenes and some fun back-and-forth between The Doctor and the villain of the day it was a definite step up from Nerva if nothing else, but what’s it like now, divorced of the “shiny new Tom Baker audios” feel? Let’s take a look!
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For a lot of people “Destination: Nerva” was a big exciting release as it was the first Tom Baker Big Finish audio they listened to, but as mentioned in its review I also brought the Lost Stories set released at the same time and was delighted by “The Foe from the Future” and therefore missed out on the disappointment that many had listening to this story first. So this is less “does Destination: Nerva still hold up?” and more “is it really as boring as I remember it being?” Not super inspiring, but oh well, let’s take a look!
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So… this was a rare one. “The Imposters”, the latest Third Doctor audio adventure, dropped a week or two ago now and got such universal distain from pretty much everywhere that it put me off listening to it straight away. Normally I’m a “I’ll form my own opinion and check what others said afterwards” kind of guy but in the forums I visit this time opinions were unavoidable and oddly one sided, no “I actually liked it…” rebuttals or anything. Having now listened to all six parts I can say this: Yep! It’s pretty dire alright. Let’s take a look…
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The latest Ninth Doctor and Rose release, “Cloud Eight”, takes a look at the technological innovations and the slippery road they can lead us down, which is fine though sadly towards the end it felt a little… direct, like a lot of the Fifteenth Doctor TV stories it felt like I was being lectured about something I already agreed with, but unlike those ones the story used to tell the listener for the majority of its runtime was at least well constructed and well written, so let’s take a look!
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“Ride or Die” was an odd story, but a very entertaining one and continues the strongish streak of Thirteenth Doctor adventures. I’ll admit the final 10 minutes and the overall resolution to the plot didn’t live up to the fun prior 30, but I still enjoyed my time with the it. Let’s take a closer look!
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After a long wait and a pretty bang-average previous boxset we finally have the next box in the odd Second Doctor post-regeneration story arc and guess what? Once again it’s not great as some of the early parts may as well have not existed and there is a heavy focus on your typical Dalek stuff we get so often in other ranges rather than anything interesting the concept could have given us. Oh well, let’s have a closer look…
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“Cybergene” was one of the more hyped Big Finish boxsets in recent years and much like TV story “Asylum of the Daleks”, which suffered from a fan backlash when it didn’t in fact have “Every Dalek Ever!” in it, this box having loads of different Cybermen on the cover and promising much the same you’ll be unsurprised to hear it had a similar backlash from hardcore fans, made worse by the fact its audio so it’s hard to know which Cybermen featured at all beyond one or two obvious ones. Ignoring all that though, what is the story like by itself? It’s… fine. Basically a decent War Doctor story that happens to feature Cybermen. Let’s take a look…
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The second half of “Empty Vessels”, or the other two-thirds I guess, is “Lure of the Zygons”, a two part/two hour story that similarly deals with a spooky abandoned space craft but throws in some Zygons for some extra flavour. Well… sort of, honestly this felt just like the previous story in being rather bland, thankfully inoffensive, but still just that little bit too predictable and meandering to stand out. Let’s take a look…
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The next Eighth Doctor boxset is already here, just a month after the previous one released and this time we’re back with Liv and Helen in their post-Stranded, pre-Liv-returning-to-Tania period, and it seems we might be gearing up towards bringing this period of the Eighth Doctor’s life to a close… in a few years’ time, given the amount of Eighth Doctor ranges/time periods that get shuffled through each release! “Eos Falling” reminded me a bit of some of the middle episodes of the Eighth/Lucie Miller run in that it was just an hour long and while inoffensive it was also not particularly original either. With that glowing endorsement, let’s take a look!
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