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| A wonderful return to form from Chris! |
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| By: | Sofia Fox, Hale, United States |
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| Date: | Tuesday 17 August 2021 |
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| Rating: |   9 |
This boxset is a pretty wonderful return of the 9th Doctor. 3 connected stories to bring back 9. All 3 stories are really good, with Food Fight being the best of the set!
| By: | David Layton, Los Angeles, United States |
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| Date: | Thursday 6 March 2025 |
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| Rating: | 7 |
It's great to have Christopher Eccleston back as The Doctor. He is wonderful on his first outing for Big Finish. I wish I could say that the story was great. Nicholas Briggs wrote the whole thing, all three parts. This time, he tries to capture the essence of RTD's first run with Doctor Who. It's like the trilogy at the end of a series. The universe is at stake, someone's out to get The Doctor, and his big plan falls completely apart. For me, the first and biggest problem of this story is that the threat to the universe is just another species that needs to eat. Is there seriously no motivation for destroying the universe other than hunger? (spoiler: it turns out not to be hunger, but addiction, but it amounts to much the same thing - insatiable appetite). At least The Master wants to conquer the universe; that's something. However, it really is trivial and boring that the great universal threat is nothing more than a hungry animal. Another problem of this one is a subplot involving time displaced soldiers. This goes nowhere, really, and leaves a major hanging question. The Doctor "saves" the three main ones, but what about all the rest, the legions and retinues? They are just abandoned once The Doctor, accidentally, gets the three leads in. A final really dicey bit for me is that from the beginning, with all the time eddies disrupting history, the listener knows that the story will end up with the "it didn't really happen" ending, complete reset button stuff. This aspect takes away much of the tension and investment the audience feels for the characters around The Doctor. The good part is that Briggs has given Doctor 9 many moments that remind the audience of what made this Doctor so interesting and so missed.
