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Doctor Who: A Little Help From My Friends Review

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It’s time to kick off this multi-Doctor catch up marathon with a bunch of Titan comics due to going in reverse release order and Titan just having a thing with multi-Doctor stories, including two different 10th / 13th crossovers that partially lead into an 8th / 11th one, so for the sake of a better flow I’ll review these in story order rather than release order. “A Little Help From My Friends” is a rather amusing title given it was basically “the Thirteenth Doctor comics aren’t selling well so let’s stick the most popular Doctor in with her”. Is the story better with a little help from her past self? Not really, no. They even threw in the Weeping Angels AND the Autons and yet it still isn’t terribly engaging. Let’s take a look anyway!

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Doctor Who: Once and Future – The Union Review

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So as to not spam two Doctor Who reviews in one day let’s take a look at the last (until next year…) entry of the Once and Future storyline before my daily Multi-Doctor story marathon kicks off tomorrow. Thankfully “The Union” was a really enjoyable story with some fun cameos and twists, to the point where I can’t help but think adding on a second hour with similar themes to the other Once and Future releases leading into this and just releasing it stand-alone would’ve been much better than the mostly weak monthly releases we’ve had, but ah well… let’s take a look!

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Doctor Who Multi-Doctor Catch Up Marathon Starts Tomorrow!

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It’s time for one of those rare (nowadays) marathons on this blog, this time counting down to the Doctor Who 60th Anniversary on November 23rd, where I’ll be putting up a list trying to rank all the Multi-Doctor stories, and much like when I did that with the Christmas stories a few years ago I’ll be reviewing all the Multi-Doctor stories I’ve yet to review on the site in the run up so the list can have review links on all the entries, rather than just the ones that I’ve happened to review over the last few years.

For the record I class a Multi-Doctor story as having to have at least two different incarnations of The Doctor in it (even if one or more of them are just mental images or digital constructs) and they have to actually communicate with each other in some way, even if only briefly. I’ll also be reviewing them in reverse release order as otherwise I’d start with classics like The Three Doctors and The Five Doctors and end with a rather flat run of Titan Comics stories.

They’ll be going up every day at 8:00am BST just like this announcement, that way I should have enough time to make sure everything is updated before I head to work most days, and if a regular review ends up going up it still can in the more common times of the day I tend to do those things without throwing multiple reviews at you at the same time…

See you tomorrow for the start of the aforementioned flat run of Titan comics! … Yay?

Doctor Who: Intelligence for War Review

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A seven-part full cast audio drama set during Season 7?! The crew at Big Finish would have to work pretty hard for me not to like this one and thankfully they delivered a really good story regardless. Fits the criterial of being entirely Earth based and having a cast of mainly human characters or human-looking characters even though budget obviously isn’t an issue here plus threw in plenty of fun twists and turns. Let’s take a deeper look!

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Doctor Who: Once and Future – Time Lord Immemorial Review

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The first of two Once & Future releases this month (Yes, oddly Big Finish aren’t releasing one in the anniversary month itself…) “Time Lord Immemorial” is quite the muddled mix of things, which I know is a valid description of all the previous Once & Future stories but this time it REALLY is. The previous Tenth Doctor one was hastily crammed into the existing storyline and just about worked but now this was hastily crammed in between the previously hastily crammed one and the long-established end point and it really shows, and what’s even weirder is the plot if far more high-stakes then the overarching storyline yet its treated as a bump in the road. Well, enough rambling, let’s take a look!

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Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead Review

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Doctor Who Season 20 was released on Blu-ray a short while ago so it’s time to look at the story I haven’t seen in the longest time off the set, in this case I couldn’t remember which out of this and the following story, Terminus, I hadn’t seen so I went with the earliest of the two *shrugs* I mean, I’ll review them all eventually… Mawdryn is an odd one, mainly because the role of returning character changed from Ian Chesterton to the Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart but the role in the story of “older teacher” wasn’t changed, making for an odd out-of-character rewrite for the Brig that infamously cemented the “UNIT Dating controversy”. It’s also the story that debuts companion Turlough and boy, he is not very likeable to start with… Let’s take a look!

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Doctor Who: Once and Future – The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50 Review

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This month’s Once and Future is the first to feature a future incarnation of The Doctor from what I still believe is the Eighth Doctor’s perspective as David Tennant’s Tenth Doctor makes an appearance (or is it the Fourteenth?! … Right, Big Finish don’t have the license…) While you can tell how this was written after the Once and Future strand had already been planned out, as admitted by the writing team themselves, it ends up being one of the better stories, once again having a very self-contained plot full of randomly thrown in characters but at least this time the story was good fun! So let’s take a look…

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Doctor Who: In the Night – Resistor Review

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If I were to give a one sentence review for “Resistor” it would be that it’s a simple two-part story that’s just… fine. The main issue is coming right after “Pursuit of the Nightjar” which is an extremely tough job for any story, let alone one with such a comparatively short run time. Still, putting that aside and looking at it by itself, what’s it like? Let’s take a deeper look…

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Doctor Who: Once and Future – Two’s Company Review

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Big Finish continues with its bizarre slap-dash 60th Anniversary “Once and Future” series with the most random line up of them all. How about jamming the Sixth Doctor, an older Harry Sullivan, Jackie Tyler and Lady Christina (you know, from that one Tenth Doctor TV story…) plus an earlier incarnation of The Eleven in The Two all together? Bloody hell… does it work? Not really, but it could’ve been far worse let’s put it that way…

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