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The Avenues of Possibility

Part five in the Legacy Of Time release


Its present day Earth and ‘doorways’ into the past have opened up, luckily a certain DI Menzies is at hand. Not to mention The sixth Doctor and Charlie.

I tend not to read much about the audios I buy, so it was a bit of a surprise when the sixth was accompanied by Charlie. I enjoyed the storyline at the time, when Charlie left the Eighth and ended up with the sixth, but with the plot line resolved, I kind of felt that was the end of it. But I love Charlie so a nice surprise.

The first couple of release that featured DI Patricia Menzies, she was a great character, however the last one and this, her accent has softened and her humour hasn’t been a dry as it was, she seemed to have more of a laconic attitude.

I struggled with this one and I’m not sure why. It starts off seemly about one man, but when the Doctor shows up he’s there for someone else. But there’s time annominallies to investigate, so far so good but the next scene is the Doctor and Charlies being told that the man they’re looking for has disappeared, and it feels as thought you’ve missed a bit.

The Doctor is then abducted but ends up in an alternative future, and again, I’m wondering how he got there, admittedly I may well have been distracted and missed something. The issue for me is that even in going back to relisten I still had the same nagging problem.

But it has all the right ingredients, doorways to the past (and a reference to the TV program ‘Goodnight Sweetheart) , a great set of characters. Alternative futures, Charlie (once again) comming clean to the Sixth as to who she is.

It is an audio I’ll come back to as I think I ned to give it a proper go when I’m less tired maybe
 

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