The new Twelfth Doctor stories continue as The Doctor and his new emotionally broken companion Ash head to Scotland and begin to unravel a mystery involving a millions-of-years-old robot who just wanted to help people but may have ended up doing the opposite. Sounds familiar, a comparison that goes beyond just “sounds like The Doctor”. This is similar to “The Second Death” in that the story truly shined in its final few scenes, but what about the rest?
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Jumping a head a bit here Big Finish-wise, but with so much to catch up on due to being in “the dark place” in combination with a second round of updated app not working issues I thought I’d listen to and review them in order of how excited I am about them, and finally getting full cast Twelfth Doctor stories put this right at the top! These were released weekly, and although I had planned to review them weekly as they came out I’ll still put them up individually rather than pair them up, but I’ll be putting two up a day as I make my way through them. “The Second Death” was a good way to start the series, a fun story and a very interesting new companion combined with a good, if not often a bit wonky, Twelfth Doctor impersonation. Works for me! Let’s take a closer look…
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The Time War: Uncharted line comes to an e- … Oh, well… The Time War: Uncharted line concludes a few things but somehow continues on with “Branches”, seeing the return of Susan to the storyline, albeit briefly. After a 4 for the Cass boxset and Set 1 Uncharted 2 got just a 2 from me last time, so how does this fair? Well…
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Just in the vein hope of speeding through some of these older Big Finish releases I’ve once again bunched all three stories of this boxset into one review. This is the kicking off point in a new series of full cast Eleventh Doctor stories, featuring their second recast (I missed out on the first one for the most part, something to get to later I guess!) and I have to say our new Eleventh Doctor isn’t quite up the task of the previous one but does a good enough job that I was able to lean back and enjoy listening to the stories, and the new companion set up is a real treat too. Let’s take a look…
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Due to more Big Finish website / app issues and a long period where I just haven’t felt like doing… much of anything, I’m WAY behind on Big Finish, so don’t mind me if I double or triple up some shorter, less-detailed reviews in the next few months! Kicking this off is a double bill of Fourth Doctor and Sarah adventures, with both stories featuring the Brigadier and Harry, giving this a more Season 12 vibe than 13, which while isn’t necessarily a bad thing does kind of fly in the face of the idea of this run of stories… Let’s take a look!
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The first series of Fourth Doctor adventures at Big Finish came to an end with the fun reveal of the Geoffrey Beevers’ Master once again facing off with Tom Baker’s Doctor, and later the, um, less interesting reveal that the Kraals were also back for another shot at Tom Baker’s Doctor… Yeah, I know which one would’ve made for the better surprise but I guess The Master was also more likely to push sales! Anyway, does this four-parter end the first series on a high? Let’s take a look…
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The next story in the first run of Fourth Doctor adventures was “Energy of the Daleks”, the want for every companion to have a Dalek story at Big Finish was immediately satisfied with this, Leela’s first encounter with them. It’s was also the first Fourth Doctor story featuring Daleks without Davros, which is interesting. Beyond all that “first time” box-ticking it’s pretty bog-standard Dalek stuff. Let’s take a look!
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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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