The latest War Master set continues the trend of stand-alone stories that vary greatly in quality and normally fall into one or two categories of “The War Master acts nice but is actually evil” or “The War Master fights an evil more evil than himself”, but I will give Rogue Encounters some praise for being a bit more outside of the box with one or two of the stories. Let’s take a look!
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The second half of the Audacity set is, as the title plainly points out, set during the “Great Cyber-War” that was all the talk during the Fourth Doctor’s only TV encounter with the Cybermen. In fact this is a prequel to that story, showing how the war came to an end and even explains some of sillier aspects of the Cybermen from that period away in a fittingly silly way, all leading to an unexpected reveal at the end of the story that flies in the face of this “new era” being advertised, but I was happy though! Let’s take a look.
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Now the 60th Anniversary stuff is out of the way it’s time to catch up with the Big Finish audio releases, and thankfully there isn’t actually that much to catch up on! “Audacity” was advertised as a fresh start for the Eighth Doctor, back in his younger velvet coat days with a new companion, and while this is true only until the end of the last episode of the set I can say that “The Devouring” is still a fun companion introduction story, if nothing else. Let’s take a look!
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Well… that was certainly a thing! “The Giggle” is the last of the three 60th Anniversary specials and acts as the Fourteenth Doctor’s regeneration story… sort of? It’s hard to get into that bit until the spoilers section (it being partially featured on the next time trailer at least means mentioning it isn’t spoilery!) but even beyond that it was a pretty bonkers story from start to finish, so let’s take a look!
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I didn’t know what to expect going into “Wild Blue Yonder” because so few details on it were available beforehand, but what I got was actually a good old fashioned claustrophobic sci-fi story with a really fun “conceptual” enemy and some weird visuals… so I was very happy indeed! It feels like ages since I watched a new Doctor Who story that was just a stand-alone good sci-fi story, so let’s take a deeper look.
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It’s time to finally look forward after a marathon of older stories as the 60th Anniversary trio of specials began airing last night with “The Star Beast”, an adaptation of the comic of the same name (which I reviewed HERE, and I also reviewed its audio adaptation HERE!) making this the third time this story has been covered on this blog. That being said, the story is more about the debut of the Fourteenth Doctor and his coming in contact with Donna Noble again, believing there must be a reason why he has his old 10th Doctor face again. Oh and yes, it also has some unsubtle messages for those who worry about that sort of thing. Either way, let’s take a look!
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After a lengthy “catch up marathon” it’s time for the main event, on today the 60th Anniversary of Doctor Who’s first episode going live, I’m going to rank all 43 multi-Doctor stories I could find (not including short stories, as there was a surprising amount of them and so few are actually easy to find, and not including stories where two version of the SAME Doctor feature, as that’s still technically multiple Doctors but not in the way I mean…) Now the key thing here is I’m not ranking them on anything other than being a good multi-Doctor story, and by that I mean having fun multi-Doctor interactions and more often than not, some good anniversary stuff as well. So while some stories lower down on the list are clearly better than some higher that most likely means that the multi-Doctor aspect was only a small part of it. Make sense? Good. Let’s rank ‘em!
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It’s time to end the Multi-Doctor Catch Up Marathon with the very first multi-Doctor story! The Three Doctors aired to kick off Season 10 (and so fans have taken to call it the 10th Anniversary story, though technically that’s not true…) and saw the return of Patrick Troughton’s Second Doctor to assist his successor. Sadly William Hartnell was too ill to actually participate on set so he advises from a “Time Eddy”, or a small plastic triangle in someone’s shed, but hey-ho. At least had an excuse, unlike Tom Baker in the Five Doctors! Add in some early fun Time Lord lore and a cheesy villain it’s a good time in front of the telly. Let’s take a look!
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The Five Doctors has to be one of my favourite “comfort food” things to put on, if I’m not really sure what to watch or for whatever reason feeling unhappy it’s something that will cheer me up for 90 minutes or so. That being said this is a review and to be completely fair to it the story really isn’t up to much, it’s a big anniversary special with loads of companions and, well, four Doctors to be more accurate, plus a few old villains and the like so it doesn’t really have time to be anything with more substance. Am I just making excuses? Well, let’s take a closer look…
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As we near the end of our Multi-Doctor catch-up marathon we’re left with the original three TV serials, with “The Two Doctors” being a bit of the odd one out as it wasn’t to celebrate any kind of anniversary but instead the producers at the time saw how successful “The Five Doctors” had been and decided to do it again! So we have the Second Doctor and Jamie join the Sixth Doctor and Peri in the middle of Season 22 for no real reason, in a story partially filmed on location in Spain, also for no real reason! Plus it’s a three-parter but at a time when each episode was the length of two regular episodes, making this effectively a six-part story which in the 80s was practically unheard of. In other words “The Two Doctors” is a very odd story, but is it a fun story to watch?
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