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Time Lord Victorious


Audio series 1.5


Echoes of Extinction



I think this almost serves as a beginning and end to the Timelord Victorious event. Two episodes, two doctors.


Part 1 


The Eighth Doctor arrives on a spaceship/station, there’s Jasmine who wants to escape, her robot butler and a monster that just wants to kill…


Its a nice enough story. Its half an hour and reminded me of one the free give aways with DWM.  So not that in-depth and as I found with the other audios, how it connects or what it adds to the overall arc of Timeord Victorious I can’t decipher. In fact you can just enjoy this as a audio by itself without any issues.


 Part 2


The Tenth Doctor, a similar situation the ship he finds himself on are going to a planet, its inhabitants wiped out, they’re looking of the thing that caused it.


The previous episode left on a little bit of a cliffhanger. It feels that this could have been a sequel to any Doctor Who story. There’s plenty of episodes where things are left and this picks up the pieces, and shows what happens next, or sometime later. There are moments where the Doctor feels its familiar, and you do wonder wether he’s going to cotton on to his previous adventure.




The Tenth Doctor channels the Sixth at time, which I enjoyed. As great as David Tenant is I did find his portrayal a little hammy.


There was a reference to the Kotturuh, and it connects to the Eight Adventure.


There are some acting names in this release, Burn Gorman Arthur Darvil, Katheryn Drysdale, through I didn’t actually notice them. Though I was listing in my my car. 


Having listened to the audios, I haven’t really got a sense of the Timelord Victorious storyline. So some elements were a little lost on me. But an enjoyable release.

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