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The Eighth Doctor adventures Cass part 1                   



Following on from Time war series 4 this… well doesn’t. Bliss is no longer traveling with the Doctor, but in her place is the Doctor’s great grand son Alex.

After a couple of brief scenes we find Cass reporting for duty on board a ship. She meets a passenger that doesn’t exist, doorways to strange places and of course the Doctor.

I was a bit disappointed with this, though it had the ingredients for a good adventure I found it a bit pedestrian. A lack of excitement and somewhat uninspiring, just unremarkable.

I’d listened to the first 40ish minutes by this point, then having came back to finish it, it had gone up a gear. Suddenly it was interesting. It does comes across as a bit Curse of Fatal Death, but you’d have to listen as its the ‘twist’ at the end. 

Its a bit too early to appreciate Cass, but it is a good jumping on point, though you do need to have some idea of who Alex is. As a returning listener you are left a bit in the dark as to what happened to Bliss and how Alex came on board, and may wonder if you’ve missed something.

While the end of the audio did lift the overall score up, for me it didn’t do enough to make me want to go back and relisten to catch stuff I might have missed first time.


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