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All’s Fair


The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles 5.2



Valerie and Roanna meet up to hopefully start a relationship. What better place then the worlds fair, Chicago 1893. All going well until a man shows up claiming to be Valeries husband.


I’ll start  by saying that I listened to Spirit Of The Season over Christmas a year or two ago, my first foray into the eleventh Doctor audios. Having enjoyed it I went back and started with Valeries first story and have now caught up. For some reason I just didn’t get into Spirit Of The Season on relistening and it was the same with this. (It maybe that having done a couple of intensive sets I just need a break).


Valerie first met Roanna in ‘The Yearn’ a series or two ago. In Spirit Of The Season she decided to move forward with her life and see how things would go with Roanna. I’m not one for romance in Doctor Who, its not I want from it, but once the plot gets moving its more sidelined anyway.


Hayden seems to be genuine, and there’s a research centre with lots of tech they shouldn’t have, not to mention the people who are becoming monsters, a process which the Doctor names the Surge. The interesting part is that Valerie is also there, an older Valerie who married Hayden and is now on life support.


There is a bit of mirroring in this, with Valerie and Hayden meeting in the wrong order and the Doctor and River Song doing the same. It is an intriguing set up and fits well in the eleventh era. It all more or less works out with a twist or two and some great stuff towards the end.


As I mentioned I just wasn’t getting into it, and its me not the audio.

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