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Doctor Who The Eleven                    


Part 1: One For All                                




This audio is set on on a planet where the people have two minds: two personalities - an ideal place for someone like the Eleven. The Eleven has married and is separating out his various incarnations into clones…

I had trouble getting into this, I’ve heard a few stories with the Eleven and always had similar issues. If you’re not familiar with the character, The Eleven is a timelord where all his previous regenerations continue to exist along side the latest version. Maybe the fact thats there’s different voices for the same person and being an audio medium probably doesn’t help when you’re trying to work out what’s going on.

Though it started well enough, there are some leaps to conclusions that don’t add up - The Doctor and Constance find an abandoned Tardis - oh it must be the Eleven, and later - you must be the Eleven’s wife. Really? Why? - maybe I missed something.

There is the issue of Miska - the Elevens wife, who was rejected by her people, but its never really explained exactly why. She only has one mind, but there’s something more we don’t get.

A lot of it seems convoluted, who is double crossing who, and whats each persons agendas are. But the fact is I didn’t care.

I’m not actually the biggest fan of Constance either, I don’t dislike here but she isn’t a companion I’m dying to hear more of.

Its not bad episode but I wasn’t interested in the plot.

Additional

I gave up with the secone episode, but later on came back to give it a proper go and found, with paying more attention I ended up quite enjoying it. I do wish i'd relistened to this again as maybe I may have enjoyed it more.
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