Seagullslost's Doctor Who (and others) audio reviews

Kingdom Of Lies                                                        Doctor Who Monthly Range 234                                                                                                              The Doctor, Tegan, Nyssa and Adric arrive on a planet divided by a, not so happy, couple. The couple are The Duke and Duchess, who only a year into marriage are now at loggerheads. So much so that the Duke has hired an assassin. When the TARDIS team find themselves on either side of a dividing line, each pair, therefore on a ‘different’ side, they both opt for the same survi...

The End                                                                       The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles : Geronimo!  3.3                                                                                         Its a bit of a running start in this one, as things are already in motion. Its a spaceship, the Doctor has been bitten and is dying, but also its Valerie that been bitten and is dying not the Doctor so what is going on? So firstly, it is slightly annoying to have the pre credits sting/clifhanger: the fact that the Doctor is - minor spoiler - dead - only for a few seconds later, after ...

The House Of Masks                                                  The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles : Geronimo!  3.2                                                                                  Responding to a call at the end of the previous episode the Eleventh Doctor and Valerie find themselves in the 18th century Venice during carnivale. Trying to find the woman who made the call they head to a plaazzo and have, or rather enjoy a ball. This is a fairly standard story. A crashed space ship unnoticed by the carnival, a malfunctioning computer and things not quite what they appear to be. All happening behind the gusto of period clothing and the ball and d...

The Inheritance                                                             The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles : Geronimo!  3.1                                                                                         A research base in the future and something is causing many deaths. When the Eleventh Doctor arrives needing a tool to defuse a bomb, he meets, Valerie. The two are charged with finding a cure of whatever it is thats killing people. I listened to Spirit of The Season at Christmas, as I like to enjoy a festive audio or two at that time of year. My first foray into post Tenant audios. I’d never really been intere...

Tales From The Vault                                                 The Companion Chronicles 6.1                                                                                                                      Charlie Sato meets Ruth Matheson at the UNIT vault - a place where all the alien artefacts are kept. Is he ready for his new job and the horrors that lie in the Vault? I was a few minutes into this before I remembered it was a companion chronicles release. Usually these adventures start with an old companion telling a story. Here it begins much more like any other full...

Unity                                                                          G allifrey: Time War 3.4                                                                                                                                        Romana and Narvin arrive on the planet Unity and meet an old friend: Leela Leela herself has a family of sorts, but is she ready to rejoin Romana? Its not a bad story, one of Leela associates is ill and needs medication, Romana and...

The Shadow Squad                                                   The War Doctor Begins : Forged In Fire 1.3                                                                                            Eliminating the Dalek time strategist would seem to on the cards in this adventure. Commodore Tamasan has been sent on a mission, though why someone of her rank has been sent is a little unclear. However the Doctor is on the same mission himself. I think I maybe changing my feeling toward the War doctor audios, as I found myself enjoying this.  It has a film/novel feel to it, with the Doctor and Tamasan in a bar looking for a contract a...

 Lion Hearts                                                                The War Doctor Begins : Forged In Fire 1.2                                                                                         A Timelord solider is being debriefed, her latest mission was to rescue a Tharil prisoner named Biroc, she thought it was a solo mission until another timelord showed up: the Doctor. I’ve said before that the War Doctor audios haven’t really been for me. Listening to the Doctor playing solider boy isn’t really my cup of tea. I’m watching The Deadly Assassin at the moment, seeing these old, dodgery, stick-i...

Light the Flame                                                        The War Doctor Begins: Forged in Fire 1.1                                                                                            I first heard Jonathan Carley as the War Doctor in the Once and Future Coda. I didn’t realise it was the war Doctor at the time, but hearing him here it is quite a good voice likeness. For me this was an odd decision, I wasn’t keen on the War Doctor audios. The War Doctor and the time war were not depicted as I had imagined so I always felt a little let down by them, but as it was on sale why not? I do tend to jump in to au...

The Final Act                                                           Jago and Litefoot 5.4                                                                                                                             I had meant to listen to this in December but opted to go for an Eighth Doctor and Charlie set instead. I do miss stand alone episodes, being able to just put on a story and not having to know what happened in all the previous ones first. I started this but found that I hadn’t really taken it in so again, listened to something...