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Eighth Doctor Adventures Time War 6.1                                                                                                



Cass - a house wife, doing her daily routines. The Doctor and Alex in some strange hospital during the war. None of them knowing who they really are.

When I first listened to The Natural History of fear, C’rizz had only just joined as a companion so I wasn’t so familiar with his voice. With that audio, like this, with the main cast not quite playing themselves so it was almost like he wasn’t there. It was only a few months since I heard the previous set, but there’s been a lot of other audios I've heard since then. So it was a similar situation with Alex and Cass - listening to these voices without ‘getting’ its the companion.

Its a little bit of a confusing start. The action is already in motion and you’re put into the middle of it, with vague memories of what happened last time and trying to connect that with this. Don’t. FYI - in the final moments of Previously Next Time, Cass had vanished. 

You’re not given any information. I’d done the first 15 minutes and came back the next day to carry on and couldn’t remember what was happening. Mostly because you don’t know what’s happening and how it all connects, and it takes till the end of the episode before it does.

Its Cass’s story that the most interesting, stuck in a house with a talking fridge for company. The fridge tells her what she needs to be doing and Cass not quite sure about it. When she finds there's no escape, you do start to get the impression that its some sort of prison or hell.

Part of me feels that I didn’t get all there was about this story, but then its maybe a case that by the end of the set everything comes together and makes sense. For now though, I’m a bit unfulfilled.

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