For those of you new to this section of the blog, I started listening to the Big Finish Doctor Who releases when they started back in 1999, getting them as they were released up to mid 2002 and release No 33 Neverland. At that time I left Uni and due to being a bit busy with life and what not I only heard one or two releases over the next few years. I started getting back into them around 2008 and was 6 years behind at that point. Due to wondering off into the Lost Doctor range and a relaxed listening pace I fell further behind. In order to catch up I'm listening to two releases a month (or more when its a 60 min single disc release, plus without seeing the cover or knowing anything about the story) and my mission to catch up continues;
Hello ladies and gentle readers, regular readers of this blog may have noticed that blog entries are becoming a tad infrequent. Sorry about that but life is getting in the way and in an effort to catch up all the stories I listened to in the first eight months of the year are getting a one sentence review, so here we go;
The Macros, Lost story featuring the 6th Doctor and Peri: nice tight story decent plot.
Circular Time, series of one episode stories featuring the 5th Doctor and Nyssa: punch the air level brilliant, again didn't know about the format and the most enjoyable release I've heard in ages.
Nocturne, featuring the 7th Doctor, Ace and Hex: a rather low key feel but very good and oddly emotional in a strange way.
Renaissance of the Daleks, featuring the 5th Doctor and Nyssa: very good plot but very uninvolving.
Year of the Pig, featuring the 6th Doctor and Peri: Very Wodehouse in a good way.
The Thousand Worlds featuring the War Doctor: good but very much the second act of a box set.
Exotron and Urban Myths featuring the 5th Doctor and Peri: Exotron was decent and Urban Myths was very enjoyable.
Valhalla featuring the 7th Doctor, very atmospheric with the first half being a lot better.
I.D. and Urgent Calls featuring the 6th Doctor: I have no memory what so ever of I.D. and Urgent Calls is utter gorgeousness personified.
Memory Lane featuring the 8th Doctor: Charley and C'rizz: good stuff in a rather good strange way.
Frozen Time featuring the 7th Doctor: run of the mill.
Son of the Dragon featuring the 5th Doctor, Peri and Erimem: good but felt like a retread of 'The Settling' without the bite.
Return of the Daleks featuring the 7th Doctor: very good and very dark.
Rulers of the Universe featuring River Song and the 8th Doctor: very good and cracking end to the box set.
The Circus of Doom featuring the 4th Doctor and Mike Yates: Tom is bloody brilliant and on cracking form.
The Heart of the Battle featuring the War Doctor: a powerful end to the series with John Hurt being more bombastic than I expected.
100 featuring the 6th Doctor and Evelyn: two wonderfully funny stories, a fantastic dark one and one I'd love to have been a full length story.
Absolution featuring the 8th Doctor, Charley and C'rizz: an absolute unexpected game changer.
Minds Eye and Mission of the Viyrans featuring the 5th Doctor, Peri and Erimem: two cracking and different stories leaving me rather anxious for this line up of characters.
