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Halloween: Sea Smoke and other stories 1.2                       


A coupe living in a flat who don’t see to be that happy. Bev hopes that her halloween party will turn things around for them. But with Annika’s attitude she tempted to ask the strangers upstairs to come, even though they’ve never met, and they always seem to be moving furniture around.


As someone who wasn’t that impressed with the first episode in this set, this really delivers. The halloween setting is a good start, but that’s just the beginning. With the odd people above them and less said about the basement the better. Not to mention the strange drawing appearing everywhere, the layers are added, building up a picture of something ‘other’. 


Of course the party does’t quite go to plan, especially as Osgood and Kate turn up, as do monsters and people start dying.


Though this is a UNIT, Kate/Osgood story, they are secondary characters. Its Bev and Annika’s story, their relationship, and though a bit more of Kate and Osgood might have been nice, its such a well written piece that you really don’t mind. 


Theres a lot going on, I do find that there are audios where, though there’re enjoyable not a lot really happens for the first half of the audio. With this it keeps moving on, adding a new bit, going further, so it really keeps you eager for more.


As this is Doctor Who related, there is some timey wimey stuff going on, and as its Halloween scarey stuff, and some dark moments, If this was a film, there’d be a few jumps.




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The Weeping Angels! Its was a nice surprise, and you almost feel you should have guessed with the references to moving furniture. I don’t think I was that impressed with the Classic Doctors, New Monsters vol 1. Episode they appeared in,  but, Wink! - The Out of Time one,  did do something interesting with them, as does this. The ploy of using someones voice to communicate works really well, with such a visual monster, with no voice of their own its hard to get them across in audio, but this idea works well. 


What also comes across is how malevolent and evil they are. Forget Daleks and Cybermen these guys are the worst, sending people back in time to the cellar to die, threats of breaking every bone in your body and making people suffer, they stop at nothing, a this is a whole new level of nasty.


At one point I started to think this was up there with Blink. Kate and Osgoods involvements  is due to the fact they knew there were there. And this audio manages to bring in something new to the Angels


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I very rarely give top marks but this was really good. 

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