When Doom's Day was first announced, I was quite trepidatious as to whether it would actually produce any good stories. After all, of what interest would a series of stories about a character I'd never heard of be to me? Even so, I decided to give the series a shot, beginning with BBC Audio's release, "Four From Doom's Day," the title a play on the Fifth Doctor story, "Four to Doomsday." Here, we are presented with four of the twenty-four hours of Doom's final day, as she searches desperately for the Doctor (but apparently not just any Doctor, a specific incarnation). The four stories contained within each take up one of these hours, though the runtimes are all roughly half an hour.
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I rarely have high expectations for BBC Audio stories. They tend to be much more average than Big Finish stories and I have yet to see any do anything particularly unique or interesting with the Doctor and his adventures. However, I found this story to be intriguing and engaging. Though Eccleston returned to the role of the Ninth Doctor for Big Finish well over a year ago, we have yet to receive new stories of him with Rose, and so I was excited to hear this story to fill that Ninth Doctor and Rose hole in my heart. And it was good. Bushnell captures the comples relationship between the two of them rather well, and though it took a bit for me to get used to Andoh's narration, she captured the characters rather well.
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