The final set of Ninth Doctor Adventures Series 2 has arrived (though frankly I should probably just start counting them as individual sets at this point, Mr. Eccleston seems to be fully invested now!) and it comes in form of “Shades of Fear”, and while there isn’t a two-part finale like last time the opening story of this box and its final episode are strongly connected… Oh and the one in the middle is a bit crap. Let’s take a look!
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Another Blu-Ray Season set release, another review! Season 9 is one I’ve frequently revisited over the years due to my love of the Pertwee era but The Time Monster (and its preceding story The Mutants) are ones I’ve watched less due to them being… quite dull. Well, the Mutants anyway, this at least has plenty of UNIT and Delgado Master in it, that always livens things up which is why it’s funny it’s the one it’s been longest since I last watched. Have I forgotten something I disliked about it? Is the weird silver birdman Kronos just too weird? Let’s find out!
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The Time War: Cass boxset ends with a two parter (or the length of a four parter, if you want to think of it that way!) that once again proves to be a fun story to follow with a good “Time War screwing everything up” plot, a great set of new characters and the TARDIS trio is once again on fine form. So let’s take a look!
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The Eighth Doctor Time War stories return and with The Doctor’s great grandson from an alternate timeline Alex already settled in. As the name suggests Big Finish shows that no companion is off limits for them once again as the box features Cass, the woman The Doctor met moments before her death and his regeneration. How do they meet up now? The Time War! That’s all the excuse you need for timeline muddling scenarios… So let’s take a look at these first two single part episodes, shall we?
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In the last of the review catch-ups from 2022 we have the fourth War Doctor Begins boxset with more great Jonathon Carley in the lead role. Once again if you’ve read my “Top 10 Doctor Who Stories of 2022” list from a few months ago you’ll know I was quite fond of this three-parter, so let’s just dive straight in!
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Despite being such a visual enemy the Weeping Angels once again appear in a really good audio story with Albie’s Angels. It puts focus on Helen and her family in a way that’s not embarrassingly out-of-nowhere and heavy handed like in the past and it really works. Now I’m a little late with this review so paradoxically this has already appeared on my “Top 10 Doctor Who Stories of 2022” list so its quality might not come as a surprise, but hey-ho… let’s take a look anyway!
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Connections is the latest Eighth Doctor stand-alone Liv & Helen set and it’s a mixed bag, but while the standout story is the next one these two stories are perfectly fine. Here Lies Drax is a fun comedy and Love Vampires is a pretty standard space station under siege story with a bit of an emotional twist. Neither will blow you away with originality, but both will keep you entertained for an hour, so let’s take a bit of a deeper look.
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When this was announced it sounded like a fun idea and the stunning cover art only pressed that thought deeper. Now it’s here (or now I’ve found the time to review it…) I can say that two episodes lived up to my expectation, the other two varied in quality but at least were all enjoyable in their own way. Another extremely solid War Master set, who’d have thought?
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Due to life getting in the way of things I haven’t really left the black and white era of TV Who on this blog and yet here we are back reviewing a Hartnell story thanks to the release of Season 2 on Blu-ray. Once again I decided to go with the story that I haven’t seen in the longest time and so that meant “The Crusade”, mainly because half of it is missing and it’s just not an interesting enough story to want to watch through a photo recon of half of it. This is only the second time I’ve watched it and third overall experiencing it despite being such a big fan of the show for so many years (I listened to the soundtrack only at one point to see if it helped…). Does this admittedly better recon job help, or is it still just… not very good? Let’s find out!
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Another year with Doctor Who barely on TV (which is still better than all the years it wasn’t on TV at all, but still…) so once again this list is heavy on the Big Finish audio side, though it’s also heavy on the more modern Who side due to the switch to boxset format not going too well for Doctors 6 and 7, quality-wise. Still who’d have thought Christopher Eccelston’s Ninth Doctor would appear so frequently on a list from any year other than 2005? (not that this blog was here to make this list then, but you know what I mean…) Great stuff. Let’s take a look and hope Russell T. Davies’ return to showrunner will make the next few year’s lists a bit more interesting, though Mr. Chibnall’s run may end on a higher note than it frankly deserves…
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