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  (MAIN RANGE): The End of The Dark  Guy Henry Doctor created by Riley Eleanor Tomlinson Doctor created by Hazel Elizabeth Olsen Doctor created by Arbrax  Rahul Kohli Doctor created by Mikey  Mary Elizabeth Winstead Doctor created by Gallifrey_Immigrant All other Doctors created by me PART ONE OF TWO (or possibly three) Chapter One  The Doctor stood in front of an enormous void of pulsing color. He began walking through the smoky rainbow of the vortex, and thought to himself very carefully about where exactly he was.  "Hello, Doctor." Said a Serene, Spaced Out Voice. "You?" The Doctor said, surprised. "Oh, don't tell me this is one of those days, Doctor."  "Indeed it is, Doctor." The Doctor also said. She smiled, her eyes switching between glazed over and bouncing across her eyebrows like a pinball hit too many times in a pinball machine. She adjusted her long hair, and gestured politely. "After you." She said.  * * * "Which bo...

  The End of The Dark, a Two Part Multi-Doctor story celebrating the Doctor's... Um, no particular event whatsoever.  There's a place in the universe that the Time Lords call the time gullet. It's inescapable, and it devours people's entire timelines apart, piece by piece, rewriting them until their entire lives are different. This is currently happening to the Doctor.  As some familiar faces appear in the time gullet, trapped and alone, with only eachother, alternate faces that might have been come into play. And they may be good. And they may be bad.  But they're all quite naughty indeed... And yes I will write this

  (MAIN RANGE): Time Enough At Last Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead as The "Cadence" Doctor

 Long have I been disappointed with the meager covers of yesterday's NCJDDAS. I shall slowly be updating them all. ALL. They will all be purged - minus Arbrax's lovely contributions - So that the disgusting covers of no template variety will be decimated. With series one and two complete, the next update will be seasons three and four. View! View the fruits of my labor! (Once this is complete Cover Gallery will reappear once more)

  Masterful by James Goss Disclaimer: This Review Contains Spoilers for Masterful Parts One to Three. This Review does not discuss I am The Master, The Switching or Terror of The Master. Thank You.  Immediately my mind goes to Zagreus. Masterful is obtuse, niche and incredibly unique in terms of what kind of story it is. Very quickly you can tell that an astronomical reset button is going to take place too. So yes, this is the Master's Zagreus. It's less overlong, and there are less cameos, and overall it's probably the better production. But make no mistake, Masterful is a tribute to this character in that vein. It is confusing at times, and many people have quite a problem indeed distinguishing between all of the suave old men, even I, who know these voices like the back of my hand, was tripped up by Culshaw's Ainley and John Simm on occasions. One would initially find Masterful to be overcrowded, but the cast is actually smaller than anticipated. The only real player...

  "Screw You, Owen Harper!!" Dinner and A Show by Gareth David-Lloyd Something incredible has happened - an honest to god amazing Tosh story! There tends to usually be a Torchwood member that gets thrown under the bus, and Tosh usually was it for most of the series run time on television. Sadly, also attempts from Big Finish to give her some stellar audios paled in comparison to those given to say, Gwen, Ianto or Owen. But finally Dinner With A Show is an honest to god amazing experience, and although there's a lot of amazing Ianto content in it too, it's quite frankly Tosh's finest hour. It's amazingly entertaining and comfy, a very strong script again from Gareth David-Lloyd, (I mean, usually he's an actor, but as a writer he's a real find, I love his stuff!) and overall, it's just plain magnificent. It's a comedy piece for the most part, but it's less riotous and more just fun and enjoyable to experience. One of the finest hours for Iant...

  Ex Machina by Alfie Shaw  People will point to Fall To Earth, Serenity or The Last Beacon as some defining Ianto stories, but for my money it's Ex Machina that takes the cake, a remarkably clever piece with some cool things to say about memory and fun concepts and really honestly crushing emotional beats. Sometimes the audios struggle to explain why there's only one Torchwood member there, but this one's explanation is absolutely brilliant for starters. Laura Aikman as Abigail is one of the better one episode only characters in this series, she plays off Ianto to great effect. Another thing that Ex Machina does incredibly well is it has Ianto as his own character, separate from his relationship with Jack, (which of course, is great, I love their relationship a great deal, but audios where Jack and Ianto are in them often end up focusing on Jack rather than Ianto, he's a bit of a spotlight hog) and so this story is set during the beginning of series one, yet another st...

  Made You Look By Guy Adams Besides one of the best looking covers ever, what exactly does Made You Look have to offer? Well, it's another nigh-perfect Gwen release, although it isn't as good as We Always Get Out Alive or More Than This, it still is pretty much the sucker punch you would expect - It has a fantastic idea to play with, one that you think would be dumb. Similar to the Weeping Angels or The Red Lady, Made You Look has a fascinating villain where it's whole gimmick is if you look at it 3 times, you're dead. So more, the opposite of the Weeping Angels. The fact that this is audio, once again works to it's benefit. This would completely and utterly fail if broadcast on television, unless they went through a great deal of effort and even still it wouldn't be as good. It's a particularly sick episode, Gwen goes through utter hell here as she tries to escort a blind woman out of the town, with her eyes closed. But the villain uses psychology to remar...

  New Boxset depicting the Master's rise to power. Big Finish, get on it. Stories include 1.1 Master of Politics  1.2 Kiss Me, Kill Me 1.3 Election Night

  Parody Among Us 2 The second boxset in the Parody Among Us series. While Yvonne and the team investigate the anarchist bombings, Anastasia goes on a mission to save her uncle, Stacy and Richardson have a heart to heart and Ash goes undercover to save the entirety of Cardiff... 7.5 Frozen Heart Richardson and his wife Stacy are trapped in the Torchwood hub's cold storage unit. As tensions between the two of them rise, they re-examine their relationship and what it means to them. Meanwhile something wakes up from within the ice.  7.6 Uncle Anastasia goes out on a hopeless quest with A Mysterious Woman to see if her uncle can be cured of his Weevil symptoms.  7.7 Psychomorph Banks are falling silent across Cardiff. While Yvonne Hartman deals with Object One, Hunter and Richardson encounter a... unique...creature. The Anarchists are rising. Things will never be the same. Probably.  7.8 Runway Anarchists are using the Cardiff fashion scene to place bombs undetected acro...

  Torchwood Parody Among Us 7.4 Snap  Starring Tracy Ann Oberman, Rebecca Root and Jason Hughes with Natalia Cordova Buckley The Hub  Yvonne Hartman was annoyed. Oh, that was a frequent thing. She was very used to that. The people of Cardiff continued to surprise her with how irresponsible they were, and it was very difficult to surprise Yvonne Hartman. She checked the clock.  Leading Torchwood was a 24/7 job, and she was good at it. And she was good at people. She had the beginnings of a team so far, but she needed to make sure they could work together. She needed to make sure that they all could work as a functioning unit. She didn't ask for much. Only obedience.  She was surprised with Richardson's wife, Stacy. Always so aggravatingly useless, and yet she had performed an astonishing task. Richardson had demanded she'd be part of the team, and yet he paid her less attention than Ash or Anastasia. But it was not hers to sit in judgement upon a marriage. And St...

   The Doctor and Millie are in trouble. Their friend Calvin is dying, from being possessed by an alien entity from the dawn of time that shouldn't exist. They need to help him. But something else lurks in the dark... 1.1 The Nobody Clause The Doctor and Millie have travelled far into the future to get Calvin the medical care he so desperately needs to survive, yet the TARDIS has forced them to land on a planet where patients are assigned a class of worth to the society and medically treated on their value. Calvin, The Doctor and Millie are nobodies, and on this planet, that's exactly what you don't want to be. A person with no value... 1.2 The Mysterious Red Button The Doctor, Millie and Calvin have discovered themselves in a white void. Before someone points out that the Doctor is really rather used to these situations, they discover a mysterious red button labelled push me. How long will they stall to push it? Why is it even here? and What will pushing the button even do...

Torchwood Parody Among Us 7.3 Alien of The Week Starring Ian Alexander, D'Arcy Carden, Paul Clayton, and Jason Hughes with Ben Mendelsohn and Tracy Ann Oberman The Hub The Torchwood hub cafeteria is not really a cafeteria. There is one metal table to sit at, and it's not very large, only enough for about six people.  There are seats in the corner where some of the others do their work.  Colchester and Hunter sat in the hub cafeteria, eating lunch on that table. The floor was invisible, which was disconcerting. Evidently the walls were a bit glitchy today. Stacy bounced in, wearing a new vibrant dress. "Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii guys! How is everybody doing! Anastasia and Yvonne have gone out for a job, so I am directly at your service! Call me if you need anything!" She cheered, happily skipping back out of the hub cafeteria. "How D'You think Stacy got the job here? She's not exactly professional." Hunter asked.  "One begins to wonder." Mr. Colche...