Time Lord Victorious

Audio series 1.2

At the end of He Kills me, He Kills Me Not, the Daleks had turned up. The Doctor and the Daleks have a common desire - to understand what it is that’s changing the universe.

Its a minor spoiler, but it comes early on and defines the audio. The Doctor has to work with the Daleks. It does remind me of the Five Doctors where the Master is asked to rescue the Doctor. So for me it doesn’t quite have the impact it should, not to mention we’ve had this kind of thing before, subverting the expected dynamic.

Wrax is the setting for this audio, and its people shouldn’t exist. There is more to Wrax than at first meets the eye, as, though they’ve conquered many others, they seem to have no evidence of the ability to - other than a device that’s older than they are.

Having listened to The Eighth Doctor time was series, this comes across as more of the same. The Eighth Doctor, the Daleks, the Dalek Strategist, issues with time etc. And with so much time war stuff its hard to remember this isn’t it. 

The planet Wrax and its people are interesting, they have secrets and its intriguing. You want to find out what’s going on, what’s behind the face of it. The Daleks are their usual untrustworthy selves and the Doctor is somewhere in the middle, dealing with both sides.

With the previous audio in this range not really seemingly doing much in way of the ‘Timelord Victorious’ arc, or doing much in general. This does up the ante somewhat. Moments of peril for the Doctor, an interesting race of people with a background more thought out and developed than you may usually get, and just enough info to keep you interested. This really does move things forward, and leaves me wanting to get on with the next part. (Again in retrospect, taking in the TLV arc, the series arrives like a jigsaw. You slowly put things together, so its more interesting as part of the whole).