Back in 2007, Big Finish did a massive change in their direction. They created the 8th Doctor adventures as a series, separate from the monthly range, and broadcast on BBC Radio 7 as an officially sanctioned Doctor Who series. This series was made for me! Confession: I wasn't getting on with the TV series at …
Continue reading Review of The Further Adventures of Lucie Miller
With the volume of new releases from Big Finish recently, it’s very easy to get overwhelmed. Normally, I manage to identify one very clear “must have” each month, which I’ll get on its release, and then I can treat myself to one or two other stories if I have the money at the end of …
Continue reading Review of War Master: Rage of the Time Lords
I have to say from the outset, I absolutely adore Alex McQueen’s Master. He needs to appear more often and he needs to recruited into the TV show as well. He was fabulous in UNIT: Dominion and I could quite happily listen to Dark Eyes 3 on continual repeat. Seriously, we need to start a …
So, for new year we had Daleks and adventure and lots of Tardis scenes and they managed to avoid making it “festive”. Very, very happy with that. Now, I’m not the world’s biggest Dalek fan - Remembrance is probably the only TV Dalek story I’d put in my top ten - but, when not overused, …
Finale time! After years of Russell T. Davis’ overblown “how many Daleks/companions/heart wrenching moments can we fit into one episode” followed by Moffat’s attempts at making quieter, more reflective and yet also bigger and more universe-shattering finales, what was Chibnall going to produce? What we got was something that in many respects did precisely what …
Continue reading Doctor Who review: The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos
This week’s episode had an amazing setup. Norway, fjords, creatures stalking you in the woods while you barricade yourself in a remote shack... it had all the makings of a good folk horror. Now, it’s not unusual for Doctor Who to take that initial set up and subvert it. Equally, Doctor Who specialises in merging …
If this season has been characterised by its carefully minimalist approach, it’s quiet character moments and its underplayed threats from villains who aren’t truly villains, The Witchfinders flips that entirely on its head. This episode was a full-on, over the top Doctor Who story that would have sat very easily alongside the Tom Baker, Peter …
That was so much fun! Last week I asked for another Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, instead Pete McTighe’s debut episode provided me with something that seemed to come straight out of season 25, one of my absolute favourite eras of Doctor Who. We begin with a mysterious package being delivered by an intergalactic teleporting robot …
“Love, in all its forms, is the most powerful weapon we have. Because love is a form of hope. And like hope, love abides. In the face of everything.” Wow! Doctor Who is really not pulling it’s punches this year. An honest-to-god non-jingoistic Remembrance Day Doctor Who episode. First up, let me just say it’s …
Casualty in space? Gremlins? Last night’s episode was another very confident story from Chibnall. Not to everyone’s cup of tea, to judge by reactions on Twitter, but it ran smoothly and had all the elements we’re beginning to expect from this season. Once again, the key strength of the story was the character work and …
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