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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Class. The oft forgotten spinoff of the modern series which lasted a mere season. Thankfully, Big Finish remembered its existence and graced us with four boxsets of new adventures set during the original season, yet the question of the final episode's cliffhanger still loomed in the air, unanswered. Despite my hopes for it, Secret Diary of a Rhodian Prince does not answer all the questions left at the end of the first season. What it does do is hint at what happened to the characters after the final episode and provide further backstory, especially for Charlie and Matteusz's relationship, and it does so in a way that is just as satisfying as if it had been a continuation of the original series. |
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