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Doctor Who The Monthly Adventures 238                                          


The Doctor and Mathew respond to a distress call and find themselves on an abandoned ship drifting through space. 

I did initially have difficulty fowling this; whether I’m getting old or endlessly scrolling through social media is diminishing my concentration I don’t know. Maybe it's that The Sixth is travelling with Mathew and I spent the first part trying to remember who he was and what adventure he joined in. However...

The new owner of the ship is on board, being interviewed by reporter Ester, as he has plans to turn it into a luxury hotel, with the assistance of the Makara. When people start dying, its apparent that there is something else going on.

We do get an explanation of Mathew and how he met the Doctor, and things settle down. It becomes a fairly run of the mill story, not bad, not exactly stand out either.  The Makara have tentacled exo suits that have been hijacked for killing, and its largely about avoiding them, and finding out who is controlling them.

The cliff hanger at the end of part three is a bit of a game changer and the audio shifts gear for the last part. That said episode 4 is quite heavy with exposition, but it is more interesting. The antagonists motives don’t really add up and its questioned in the audio.

All in all it's an Ok adventure, it has some nice ideas, but the big reveal should have come earlier as I was losing interest half way through.


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