Seagullslost's Doctor Who (and others) audio reviews

Hour Of The Cybermen                           Doctor Who Monthly Adventures                         This continues the UNIT/Daniel Hopkins arc that started with The Helliax Rift. The Doctor finds himself on Earth after receiving a call from UNIT. The UK is suffering a drought. Deserted streets and people fighting for water. It is reminiscent of Invasion of the Dinosaurs, which the Doctor mentions himself, and its similar in other ways too. Refreshing his connections with UNIT, the Doctor finds Daniel isn’t as pleased to see him as he thought, though having lost his family he’s not the man he was. I listened to this after struggling to get into a war Doctor set. It is a pretty run of the mill story. The Cybermen were interesting in their first few tv stories, but the time we get to the eighties versions, they’re a bit dull. Of course its them that have caused the ...

Party Favours                  Halloween: Sea Smoke and other stories 1.2                        A coupe living in a flat who don’t see to be that happy. Bev hopes that her halloween party will turn things around for them. But with Annika ’s attitude she tempted to ask the strangers upstairs to come, even though they’ve never met, and they always seem to be moving furniture around. As someone who wasn’t that impressed with the first episode in this set, this really delivers. The halloween setting is a good start, but that’s just the beginning. With the odd people above them and less said about the basement the better. Not to mention the strange drawing appearing everywhere, the layers are added, building up a picture of something ‘other’.  Of course the party does’t quite go to plan, especially as Osgood and Kate turn up, as do monsters and people start dying. Though this is a ...