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Doctor Who The Monthly Adventures 242                                                                       


The Doctor, Mel and Ace arrive in a present day Earth setting, much like Ace’s or Rose’s home - a tower block estate. However they soon find themselves transported to a pocket dimension, a tower block, zombies and no way out…

With this set inWithin Manchester it did give me 9th Doctor vibes, along with it feeling like Rose’s home. But also hints of Survival, and a reference to Paradise Towers so it does have a ring of treading old ground.

It's not a complex story, Mel and Ace have their adventure, while the Doctor has his. There’s also a couple that are managing to survive, and a comedic alien whose looking for the only other none zombie resident. 

It kept me interested. There were some nice interactions between Ace an Mel which I enjoyed, nothing special but they worked well together. Though there was noticable evidence of this being an audio adventure with some clunky descriptions. At one point, in the dark, Mel says she’s dropped her match while Ace says she still got hers - if its in the dark she’s probably going see that.

Episode three is almost one long bit of exposition, the comedic alien and the one who created this pocket universe. I do feel that it would have been far better to have the information released throughout the whole story, it is a side step from the adventure to explain the plot.

With the setup from episode three, the eventual resolution comes as a bit unsatisfying. So much build up to the events and then it fizzles out. It just feels unrewarding.

Generally speaking it's nice enough.

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