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The Second Doctor Adventures: The Potential Daleks 1.1                                            


Unfortunately this carries on from the last set, my feelings towards the Conspiracy of Raven release are not good. It was hard going, unrewarding and having had to sit through it twice to try and get a hold on it, it wasn’t a pleasant experience.


On one hand there’s a woman whose relationship with the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty is causing problems. On the other we find The Doctor, Zoe and Raven where we left them at the Vanishing point and like us, trying to work out what’s going on. 


I spent a week trying to listen to this. In its defence I had just switched to working nights, so falling to sleep wasn’t all its fault. So after actually getting to the end of part two and still not taking it in, I listen to the two episodes again on the Friday.


Sadly part one isn’t good. There’s no clue about what the Humpty Dumpty stuff is about and the Doctor and co just talk without really achieving anything. As soon as the Doctor decides on a plan  about what the Kippers are and what going on, Jamie magically appears, no explanation as how. Though things do start to move ,the cliffhanger is pretty none existent, its just where the episode stops. 


Part two is better, the 4 are split up and Celestine is present. After looking it up, he was in the final beginning set, but its been nearly 4 years since that came out, and my memory isn’t that good. There is mention of this Doctor being a split off from the original and its nice to have it referred to. Zoe gets to be a bit more proactive-  again it great to have a better role for her.


With the set title being the Potential Daleks, it no spoiler that the Doctor believes they’re trying to make a come back after being wiped out in Evil of the Daleks. So a few things are starting to come together.


There were moments where the cast didn’t have the best material to work with, and as with the last set there’s just not enough happening. At this point I’m not enthused about buying the next release. But there’s still more to come of this first.


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