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Vespertine               


The Eighth Doctor Adventures Cass 1.2                  


The TARDIS materialises on a research base, itself built above the wreck of a ship. The ship of Hudson Sage, noted explorer. But the Vespertine was never found was it?


This is a step up from the last episode, a bit more intrigue. The research team have suffered a bout of illness and are awaiting the relief team. The wrecked ship turns out to be a sea ship made of wood and they go to investigate.


Mild spoiler

They find that Hudson is still alive and time locked, and so is part of the ship as it still looks new. With that and the fact the the rest of the crew abandoned ship, means there is quite a bit more going on here than first appears. So there’s enough mystery to keep interest.



One thing with this episode and the last is that its easy to forget that this is part pf the time war saga. If it wasn’t named as such, it could be assumed that some of the little details were just part of a story arc. A motif of this story is that the Doctor seems to have been here before, not that he remembers, but he kind of does. The fact that he made promises to Hudson he’s not kept is a little worrying. Its also the bit that does sort of explain the gap between this series and the last and, presumably, ties into the time war.


Cass: I’m not actually liking her much as the moment. When Alex asks is she ok, she gets very defensive about it, that she doesn’t need looking after. Which is fine, but he’s just checking if she’s alright. The fact that when they first arrive, she’s the one who comes up with the  ‘We’re the relief crew advance party’ lie to get the into the base. Again its great ,but it feels a too soon for her to be that good.


There’s is some nice stuff in this studio , but its still mostly average.

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