The War Doctor returns to our scre… audio-playing-devices with “Fallen Heroes”, a story I was really looking forward to not just because I really like the War Doctor range but because it was said to be inspired by the likes of the X-Files and definitely Alan Wake, which is a unique idea for Doctor Who but especially the War Doctor, who tends to be all Daleks and blasters. Did it live up to my expectations? Well…
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I was looking forward to “Unknown Soldiers”, as I do for pretty much any War Doctor story, to be fair. The boxset has its moments and some of the cast really shine but others, um, not so much, especially a “Rocket Raccoon you have at home” that gets FAR too much attention in the last half of the story. Still, is there more good than bad? Well…
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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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The next War Doctor set has arrived, and somewhat annoyingly it’s also sort-of a sequel to the “Dark Gallifrey” series I’ve yet to buy (thanks to work schedule and extremely frustrating Big Finish app issues…) but only in the setting up of how Morbius is alive again and in a regular, if disfigured, body. Once you just accept that fact and brush off references he makes to what happened to him in that story you can focus on a fun showdown between him and the War Doctor. Let’s take a look!
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The Sontarans vs. Rutans mini-series-that-was-originally-a-box-set comes to a close with this rare stand-alone War Doctor story. “In Name Only” does a good job of tying all the different story strands that have been created across the previous three releases while also giving a fun story to digest as well. Let’s take a look!
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The War Doctor Begins, um, ends with “Exit Strategy” and with it the story of sort-of companion Case. Thankfully the odd and tragic story is brought to a good conclusion that also features another good look into the relationship between the War Doctor and his earlier selves, more specifically his previous self. Let’s take a look!
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“Enemy Mine” is the last War Doctor Begins box set (although there is already a stand-alone release featuring Jonathan Carley’s great early War Doctor announced so thankfully it’s not the last in general) so it’s time to tie up the one dangling loose end that is Case. At the end of the previous box set she had merged with a Berserker Dalek and then was recruited by the enemy side, so does the story come to a happy end? … Well, you’ll have to wait for the final story in the set to be reviewed in a couple of days, but as for the first two stories? Let’s take a look!
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Reviewing “The Name of the Doctor” feels like it’s overdue as during my “Doctor Debut Marathon” several years back I said this story should’ve been the story covered for John Hurt’s War Doctor but as he only appeared in the very end I went with his first audio story instead. Now all these years later and I realise that under my rules for this Multi-Doctor Marathon the couple of sentences The Eleventh Doctor and the War Doctor share actually make it count! So here we finally are. Honestly this story also has lots of the other Doctors appearing either via archive footage or people walking past the camera in-costume, so it fits the anniversary-feel of multi-Doctor stories if nothing else. Let’s take a look!
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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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The Comrade-in-Arms set concludes with a perfectly fine story in Memnos, though I’ll admit the concept in the synopsis was far more interesting than the rather basic story we got. Plus coming off the heels of such an amazing story as Berserker didn’t help! Well, let’s take a look…
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