The latest Ninth Doctor and Rose release, “Cloud Eight”, takes a look at the technological innovations and the slippery road they can lead us down, which is fine though sadly towards the end it felt a little… direct, like a lot of the Fifteenth Doctor TV stories it felt like I was being lectured about something I already agreed with, but unlike those ones the story used to tell the listener for the majority of its runtime was at least well constructed and well written, so let’s take a look!

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“Ride or Die” was an odd story, but a very entertaining one and continues the strongish streak of Thirteenth Doctor adventures. I’ll admit the final 10 minutes and the overall resolution to the plot didn’t live up to the fun prior 30, but I still enjoyed my time with the it. Let’s take a closer look!

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The second half of “Empty Vessels”, or the other two-thirds I guess, is “Lure of the Zygons”, a two part/two hour story that similarly deals with a spooky abandoned space craft but throws in some Zygons for some extra flavour. Well… sort of, honestly this felt just like the previous story in being rather bland, thankfully inoffensive, but still just that little bit too predictable and meandering to stand out. Let’s take a look…

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The next Eighth Doctor boxset is already here, just a month after the previous one released and this time we’re back with Liv and Helen in their post-Stranded, pre-Liv-returning-to-Tania period, and it seems we might be gearing up towards bringing this period of the Eighth Doctor’s life to a close… in a few years’ time, given the amount of Eighth Doctor ranges/time periods that get shuffled through each release! “Eos Falling” reminded me a bit of some of the middle episodes of the Eighth/Lucie Miller run in that it was just an hour long and while inoffensive it was also not particularly original either. With that glowing endorsement, let’s take a look!

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The Ninth Doctor and Rose adventures continue on with the third and hopefully final visit to the Powell Estate (this was clearly supposed to be a three episode boxset…) which sees the classic idea of a “children’s game come to life” as an imp-like creature begins to make people do and say things they think to themselves but otherwise would never do, which starts off as innocent pranks but soon becomes something far more sinister. Let’s take a look!

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Finishing off the Causeway boxset is “The Time You Never Had”, which ramps up the Causeway story arc / buzzword that I’ll be honest didn’t know was a thing until it was brought up. Still, this is once again a good story but also once again has its faults and has an ending that felt a little bit like having your cake and eating it too. Still, I think more good than bad at least! Let’s take a look…

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The first of two Eighth Doctor boxsets within a month of each other, “Causeway” features the new Charley and Audacity combo of companions and certainly puts the latter through the wringer across both stories! “Lost Among The Stars” is a really fun story, full of a creepy soundscape, interesting world building and a good “how will they get out of this one?” twist, but sadly the end and predictability makes it fall short of something truly great. Let’s take a look!

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“The Thirteenth Doctor finally gets a Christmas Special!” was the cry as this story was announced, but honestly this doesn’t have a lot of Christmas in it, and instead is a weird mix of light-hearted banter and a look at grief and having to try and get over that major loss, two story beats at the literal opposite ends of each other. Does this blend work? Well…

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