Category: Time War
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REVIEW | The Eighth Doctor – Time War: Cass
Big Finish are really feeding fans of the Eighth Doctor recently; this is the third month in a row where we’ve been treated with a new boxset of audio adventures starring Paul McGann… though this one’s a little different. While the last two boxsets, What Lies Inside? (review here) and Connections (review here), have told…
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REVIEW | The War Master: Escape from Reality
Derek Jacobi returns as the War Master, in a very unusual collection of adventures. This time, the devillish Time Lord visits the Land of Fiction, delving into worlds based on Greek mythology, the works of Hans Christian Andersen, the Sherlock Holmes series and Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. Will this change of gear…
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REVIEW | The Tenth Doctor: Classic Companions
The Tenth Doctor reunites with some old friends in The Tenth Doctor: Classic Companions! Read on for our thoughts. 1. “Splinters” by John Dorney After finding his old friend K-9 floating in space, the Doctor arrives in the middle of an endless forest, where he bumps into another old friend: Leela, warrior of the Sevateem.…
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REVIEW | The War Master: Self-Defence
The Time War incarnation of the Doctor’s greatest enemy returns, in a boxset of four new audio adventures! Self-Defence is the first War Master boxset since 2017’s Only the Good to feature four writers, which will, I hope, give us a nice variety of stories compared to the more closely-linked episodes in the more recent…
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REVIEW | The War Doctor Begins: Battlegrounds
The War Doctor returns! Jonathon Carley is back for another three audio adventures, as the Doctor’s most secret incarnation becomes further embroiled in the Time War. Forged in Fire (review here) and Warbringer (review here) were #3 and #2 respectively on our Big Finish Top 10 of 2021, so my expectations are high for this…
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REVIEW | Doctor of War: Genesis
Doctor Who: Unbound returns! For the first time in fifteen years, Big Finish takes a sideways step into an alternate Doctor Who timeline, exploring what would happen if the Fourth Doctor did destroy the Daleks on Skaro, before regenerating into an incarnation known as the Warrior. Colin Baker stars in these three new audio adventures,…
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REVIEW | The War Doctor Begins: Warbringer
The War Doctor returns in the second instalment of The War Doctor Begins series! Forged in Fire was one of the best releases of this year, serving as an excellent debut for Jonathon Carley‘s new interpretation of John Hurt‘s iconic character, so it’s safe to say Warbringer has been highly anticipated. But does it hold…
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THE WAR DOCTOR REVISITED | Only the Monstrous
Kieran Brennan begins his retrospective of the War Doctor series from Big Finish, as he takes a look at the first boxset: Only the Monstrous! Back in 2015, after Big Finish acquired the license to finally explore concepts and characters from the revival series, I don’t think anyone expected just how soon they would take…
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REVIEW | The War Master: Killing Time
After an outstanding start with Only the Good and The Master of Callous (review here), The War Master range has petered out somewhat, with more recent releases not quite reaching the heights of those earlier boxsets. But now the War Master is back, and this time he’s going up against a powerful new enemy… and…
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REVIEW | The War Doctor Begins: Forged in Fire
Four years after John Hurt‘s sad passing, the War Doctor is back in this new boxset of three audio adventures! Jonathon Carley takes up the mantle of this particular incarnation of our favourite Time Lord in a new series chronicling his earliest adventures in space and time: The War Doctor Begins. So far, Big Finish‘s…