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Time Lord Victorious


Audio series 1.3


Mutually Assured Destruction


On a damaged ship the chief Dalek and Dalek Strategist are at odds, their situation is not helped by the Doctor being on board.


In the last audio things had got moving, a race who could change the timelines of planets, and mentions of the Dark times. I had, perhaps naively, thought that this episode would see the Doctor going back to the Dark Times, so I was a little put off balance when that wasn’t the case. 


As far as the Timelord Victorious series goes, I played the VR game about 2 years ago, but didn’t really take a lot of notice of the plot. The Daleks! animated series on YouTube, seems to take place around here so I watched that. And it did give me some insight the the Emperor and Strategist, but in all honesty I’m not much the wiser with the overall plot. 


Having started this, stopped to see if I could make out where this was placed in the Timelord Victorious ‘timeline’. Watched the Daleks! animated series, and realised that unless I took in all the other media I probably wasn’t going to ‘get’ the story. I lost interest. 


There are a couple of prisoners on board or ‘cargo’ as the Daleks call them - the last of their race. A nod to what’s to come for the Doctor. It did start fairly promisingly, The Dalek ship, battle worn,  and the Doctor needing to use his wiles to get back to the TARDIS and there are a couple of clever things the Doctor does to win the day.


This is probably quite a good adventure, but without the rest of the arc, its a little out of nowhere, and it was that feeling I’ve missed something, that kept me from enjoying it. I can’t help feeling a ‘the story so far…’ bit at the beginning, would’ve helped a lot, especially as some of the differing media is, or will, no longer be available.

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