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The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield 4.1                                                                   


This adventure see the Doctor back as president on the universe, while Benny is back at what she does best: archaeology. The dig she’s in charge of is to uncover the apocalypse clock, which is where the Doctor visits her.

Again there is that moment of coming back to a series and trying to remember where things were at the end of the last. The Emporium at the End, saw the return of the Master, but ended with The Doctor and Benny resuming their travels. So a little time has passed since then.

The Doctor doesn’t seem to be quite the man he was, in fact his meeting with Benny is somewhat of an inconvenience; rather than a welcome reunion, it's just the opposite. If it were up to him, he’d be gone as soon as he got there, and to Benny’s annoyance he hasn’t even been reading the reports she been sending him.

The focus of this audio is the relationship between the Doctor and Benny, the Doctor doesn’t seem to be ‘The Doctor’ anymore, does he even care? The apoloclapse clock element I was intrigued by. It can be heard every night, Can it be used to save the universe from its end? As the dig gets closer to revealing it you wonder will it turn out to be some ancient powerful machine? It didn’t live up to what I had imagined, and it fell a little flat.

Its a nice start, some good stuff between the two leads but the story itself didn’t deliver what it seemed to promise.


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