Skip to main content

The Warlock’s Cross                  


Doctor Who Monthly Adventures                       



So what did happen at Warlock’s Cross? UNIT, Daniel Hopkins and the Doctor all find out together.

Some kind of sentient space ship is buried, though UNIT dealt with it at the time, it seems that there is some unfinished business: Daniel Hopkins is needed.

This started out promisingly, the hint of mystery, the fate of Daniel, the return of Klien, but its dull. The middle two episode are just the characters walking around caves, though ‘ship’ is making them see or hear things, its just isn’t interesting. 

Elizabeth Klien - I remember the first audios she appeared in (so many years ago now), and she was quite an interesting character - a remnant of a defunct timeline. Here though she’s nothing special, just another person.

This is the last of the Daniel Hopkins trilogy, and it feels more miss than hit. We didn’t get to know or like him enough in the first adventure, so his turn to the dark side wasn’t as heightened as it could have been in the second. In this he’s more of a sad wretch, someone you feel sorry for.

There is a false ending, when it feels things are wrapped up, but there’s still another episode to go, and to be honest I didn’t really want to sit through it. There are some twists and turns in the audio, but it was all too flat. I wanted or needed, moments of real peril, danger. Sitting on the edge of my seat stuff, but no.

It isn’t bad but unexciting.

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Founding Fathers                                                       The Companion Chronicles  The First Doctor 1.3                                         Steven’s grand daughter takes him to visit the Doctor, yet its not the actual Doctor. There they tell a story of an adventure they once had where they met Benjamin Franklin. So perhaps a little more unusual, in that what’s happening with the current Steven is as, if not more interesting, as the story that’s being narrated. The narrated story tells of the TARDIS arriving in Leicester in 1762. With it being quite warm, the Doctor takes off his coat and throws to back into the TARDIS inadvertently locking the crew out. Getting back in is a little tricky and the only man that can help is Benjamin...
Post a Comment
Read more
Power Game  Doctor Who the Monthly Range 248b Kamelion has been missing for three weeks, its York, the 1980’s and that’s just the beginning. This hits the ground running, but not only has Kamelion gone but now they’ve lost Tegan as well. Tegan herself finds she’s on a TV gameshow, how she got there is a bit of a mystery as she no idea how shearrived. The show pops up at various times on different channels in the middle of other programs. It’s a good start, no faffing about and with this a two parter that’s probably a good idea. The Tv show gives contestants challenges, when they fail they’re out, interestingly enough there are no prizes, and the contestants soon forget about their real lives.  It’ll be no surprise that the gameshow isn’t real and is a veneer for what’s really going on. We’ve had stories such as this before so you know what the deal is and you’re waiting for the big reveal. The Doctor and Turlough happen to find someone else who was taken by the game, and set t...
Post a Comment
Read more
The Quest of the Engineer                                     The Fourth Doctor Adventures 9.4                                               On a planet that reconfigures it surface, the Doctor, Romana, Adric and K9 are seeking info on a CVE. They encounter the ‘Engineer’ who is also interested in CVE’s, though there is more to him and the planet than at first seems. I had to check that I had started with part one, as it begins with Adic having been arrested for taking K9 though the streets where technology is forbidden. They meet Rigis Tel played by George Layton (perhaps more noted in DW circles as being the Space pirates) and go on to find the truth about the planet. As for the plot… Well it is tempting to say what plot. The planet is… mild spoiler… a giant space ship. Being a Hitch...
Post a Comment
Read more