Doctor Who: Rutans vs. Sontarans – Betrayal at the House of Sontar Review

The next series I’m catching up on Big Finish-wise is the “Rutans vs. Sontarans” run of four stories, given how much I liked “Sontarans vs. Rutans” previously I was looking forward to diving in, and Part 1 has certainly justified that decision! “Betrayal at the House of Sontar” is a Fugitive Doctor story that actually puts her pre-Hartnell, working for a Gallifrey black ops background to good use and gives us an actual answer to “how did the war between the Rutans and Sontarans actually begin?”, which admittedly isn’t a question I ever felt needed answering, but at least the answer we got was an entertaining one! Let’s take a look…

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Doctor Who: Once and Future – Coda: The Final Act Review

Remember “Once and Future”? The big 60th Anniversary run of stories that ended up being almost entirely disappointing nonsense with little thought into the writing? Well, this is the “Coda” to that story, an epilogue with one more special crossover, in this case The War Doctor and The Fugitive Doctor. The latter has an interesting premise if your brave enough to run with it (a pre-Hartnell Doctor from the Dark Times either working for the shady division or running away from it) but for the sake of this story it’s actually just two Doctors who are more inclined to violence than the numbered ones accidentally at odds with each other, and you know what? It was really fun, perhaps the highlight of the whole Once and Future storyline… which isn’t saying much, but still! Let’s take a look.

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