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The Murder of Oliver Akkron


Doctor Who: The Eleven part 2



The Eleven has been invited by Oliver Akkron to a meeting. Oliver is the president of Molaruss.


It begins with (and is mostly)  a lengthly conversation between the Eleven and Oliver. Its over 20 minutes before there’s any break, so you really need to take notice. 


Its a slightly meandering piece at first and without context you’re wondering what’s it all about and where its heading. There is mention of mono and duo minds, which is the case of Oliver and ties into the situation of the Eleven.


After a while it starts cutting to to medi techs who are dealing with parasitic worms that are infesting the world, and their experiments in coping with them. As with the conversation with the Eleven and Oliver you do wonder how it's connected.


This doesn’t feature the Doctor or Constance, in a similar vein to Love and Monsters: the first time I saw it I wasn’t that impressed (It has grown on me since). Where was the Doctor? After all its is Doctor Who. 


I struggled with this the first time I listened. As I’ve mentioned it takes most of the audio for things to fall into place and build up a picture of what’s going on. And I do tend to ignore stuff until I know why’s its there. Its been a couple of months since I heard the first part of this set and, having not really taken in this episode, I needed to give it another go before continuing. I paid much more attention this time round and got more out of it, and I do think knowing the Doctor’s not going to turn up helps.


Things get a little complicated at the end, and unusually for me I couldn’t wait to finish it, I was really interested in how its ended.


So from not really liking it first time I’ve really enjoyed a second listen.

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