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The Lumiat


Missy 2.1


Missy, up to her old tricks of stirring up the red and the black ants. Only this time its people. All going well (or bad depending on your viewpoint) until a timelady appears, it has to be the Doctor doesn’t it? Who else could it be?


I listened to this twice - a couple of months apart. The first time I felt it was OK, but seeing the reviews and it having been rated quite highly, I thought perhaps I’d missed something.


The Lumiat: she’s has been in a couple of other audios (Masterful and Timelord Immemorial)  - both of which I’ve heard but in the wrong order. Gina Mckee pays the Lumiat, for me always remembered for being on the Lenny Henry show.


With the Lumiat showing up and Missy believing her to be the Doctor, despite that being denied,  the audio is a series of events between the two. Missy causing trouble and the Lumiat undoing the damage.    


As you might be a bee to tell there is a bit of a twist as to the true identity of the Lumiat and apparently its been well spoiled. One of the reasons I gave this another go is because I realised that there’s a lot of info I hadn’t taken into account. This ties into Missy’s fate at the end of The Doctor Falls episode, where Missy and the Master ‘kill’ each other. These days I don’t really pay that much attention to continuity - the amount of stories they fit into small gaps in the TV series. Steven and Sara adventures set in the middle of Daleks Masterplan for instance, stretches believability. So I tend to just enjoy them for what they are. And I don’t really read about them before I buy. Even now still trying put put the pieces of Missy’s existence together I feel I would have got more out of this if I’ve go done my research.



It does demostrate the obsession Missy/Master has with the Doctor, I listened to Beneath the Viscoid recently where the Master pretends to the Doctor, again with the Tv episode The Power of the Doctor. Its quite the fixation.


Michelle Gomez is great as Missy and is every bit the character in the TV version.


A good audio, but knowing where this fits in the timeline adds more.


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