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Forgive the pun but, Excellent!!!!

By:Matthew David Rabjohns, Bridgend, United Kingdom
Date:Friday 31 August 2018
Rating:   10

I am a huge fan of Andrew Smith. He wrote an awesome tale for Tom at just seventeen years of age in the classic Who era, and with Big Finish he has risen to become a firm favourite writer of mine for many reasons. What all of his stories possess now is a brilliant portrayal of the characters. Andrew instantly makes you care for the people in his stories, and it takes some writing skill to make one do this almost in every story he writes. And its even more brilliant when he does it with the return of the Cybermen on audio yet again.

And what is even better is when you have the great original guys playing the Leader and Lieutenant! And both David Banks and Mark Hardy slip back into their cyber roles with gusto and make this story immensely enjoyable. I also greatly enjoy the fact that this is yet another brilliant story for the amount of time the silver giants appear too. I love to have as much cybermen in my stories as possible, and its great the amount they are in this corker of a tale.

Daniel Hopkins is a brilliant and very very intense character. Its great the development he gets in this story. And his story is very believable and his state of mind is brilliantly portrayed by Blake Harrison. And as ever Colin Baker leads the cast with all the usual Old Sixie brilliance. And I also love the character of Riva. I always adore my strong female parts in a Doctor Who story.

What I also love is when the cybermen are portrayed just as they should be. As very powerful enemies who should never be easy to defeat or stump. And the plot of this story is awesome, and the pacing is spot on and the superb sound design and production just make this just yet another Big Finish cyberman success story. David Banks and Mark Hardy are amazing stepping back into the role of the brilliant Earthshock style cybermen. And its great to hear David spar again with the Doctor just as he memorably did with Peter's Doctor in Earthshock. This story also fully incorporates all the best elements that made the cybermen the brilliant and resoundingly awesome villains they are.

Andrew has woven a corker of a tale and this joins the ranks of the heights of Spare Parts and Kingdom of Silver for awesome cyber telling! I hope this also isn't the last we hear of David or Mark!



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