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Dare You                The Ninth Doctor Adventures 4.3                       Once again the Powell estate is plagued with something ‘other’, this time an entity that works on you true feelings - the things you don’t say or do and dares you to do them.  It does feel a bit similar to the last story, but with the same setting and cast, its probably going to. But with Chris, Billie and Camile each doing a great job, its hard to complain about. I said for a while that the Ninth could do with a companion and this feels more in line with his Doctor . So the idea here is that all the things you want to say or do, the entity dares you to and then you do. Its a bit like where people can’t lie and start telling the truth, the stuff they really think but don’t say. It does come to a head when Rose says stuff to her mum, we don’t hear what she says but it’s not good, and you wonder whether their ...

The Last Days of the Powell Estate The Ninth Doctor Adventures 4.2 The Doctor and Rose find themselves in the future, 2036 , to be exact. Though, when Rose discovers that the run down, derelict building they’ve arrived at is what left of the Powell estate , she starts to worry about her mother… It feels like quite a wait since the last episode. I’m not one for binge listening, but with Chris and Billie back together, you just want more. They meet a guy doing a video about strange places who tells the Doctor and Rose about an entity dubbed ‘ Mr Fingers ’. People feel a hand on their shoulder but when they turn round no ones there, feel it twice and you’re gone. The idea would make quite a nice horror film. It has the ingredients, the empty building, the sense of something unreal, people disappearing. The fact that once there felt the hand, if they turn around next time, they’re a goner.  The entity exists both in Roses time and the future, so we get Jackie and her friend in 2006...