Plum Pudding Reviews

  I'm in a bit of a Doctor Who story block. For the moment, I thought it would be amusing to throw my hand at a Sherlock Holmes crackfic. This may be a one-time thing. I'm not dedicated to any particular cast of my Holmes and Watson either. I don't know, I wanted to make a cover and picked the laziest option. The Adventure of The Glorious Finance In the good year of 1896, Mr. Sherlock Holmes and I had been living at 221B Baker street for quite some time. Indeed, we had solved an indeterminable number of cases and received a good deal of money in the bargain. It was late in this year that I approached Holmes with a good deal of this money - and beyond the fairly meager amount owed to Mrs. Hudson, we were financially speaking, quite beyond our usual comforts. It had been a busy year. During it we dealt with the matter of the Veiled Lodger (of which I have already chronicled) and the adventure of the slightly larger than average Mouse of the D'Urbervilles. (For which the w...

  Highway Robbery - Part Two: The impersonation was a complete and total success. The Monks have control of the TARDIS, using Paige as a lynchpin to gain consent to escape the cosmos, to leave the universe itself! With the Doctor’s oldest friend, the blue box that she’s had for so long, gone - she must turn to her second oldest, and depend on the Master. But can one ever depend on the Master? Even the Master isn’t sure…

  In the face of a second Time War, the Doctor wants to find hope anywhere she can. Looking for connections to her past wherever she can find them. The Master, for instance. But someone wants to exploit that. Someone wants to get away from the fiercest war, and someone wants to take whatever opportunity they can. That's remarkably easy when you're an expert at changing shapes, after all. Luring the Doctor to a village in Japan with sightings of herself, the Doctor comes across Lady Me, a long forgotten frenemy that the Doctor is all too eager to accept. But that's the point, isn't it? 

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  Crashed on a Frozen Planet on the Outskirts of The Second Time War, Paige, The Doctor and The Master are alone. Voices whisper from within the ice, urging them on to turn on each other, and the trio must slowly tread through the frozen autumn that never ends. For the first time in her life, Paige feels truly alone. The Doctor has just made a major mistake - she's admitted as such, but can Paige really trust her again? The Master begs to differ... 

  Dark Eyes Two Dark Eyes One was ostensibly an experiment, and as such it wrapped itself up pretty much in entirety. If you gave the first Dark Eyes set to someone and didn't tell them there was a second, third or fourth set, they might not even guess. As such, there's the question of how do you follow on from that, and Dark Eyes Two spends a lot of it's time trying to figure out what it is. It has four stories, and unlike Dark Eyes One, none of them are fragments, all of these episodes are complete stories and feel as such, whereas not only did Dark Eyes have a breakneck pace, it was also sort of a single story. No more of that here - but oddly, the story structure is perhaps the worst part of Dark Eyes Two. While all of the individual stories rock in some way, the connection between them showing up when you're getting into one story that would be better without it is frustrating.  The Traitor by Nicholas Briggs The Traitor is a bit of a divisive piece in the fandom -...

The Eighth Doctor Time War 1  The few Time War sets I have done so far have ranged from exquisite (The War Master sets) to so undeniably terrible I don’t even want to bother finishing it, let alone reviewing it. (Only the Monstrous.) and to be honest, that’s because they fall in one of two patterns. To actually depict the Time War on screen (okay, audio) is perhaps one of the toughest challenges Big Finish have risen to - I mean, it’s the event that was built up for so many years of the revival show. It’s almost more an idea than a story concept, with all of it’s eldritch horror and whatnot, so as a result, the Time War is an idea more suited to vague dialogue and prose than actually being in it. That’s one school of thought. The other school of thought is BLAM BLAM SHOOTY DALEKS BLAM. Luckily for the most part Time War 1 situates itself on the right side of the fence and doesn’t just do a big shooty Dalek thing, because well, I don’t think that’s what people want the time war to b...

  Were there deaths, sir? Yes, sir! And they were good, sir!  Non Blobby Copy:

  Orla Brady Doctor continues, with a continuation to the previous story!  1.2 The Doctor's Masterplan:  Paige, stunned at the newfound fury of this new Doctor, turns to the one person she thinks could possibly give her a chance for help. The Master is quite different since she last met her - but can she trust this old enemy to stop an old friend? It's all been planned for by The Doctor, sitting in the dark, waiting...but for what? 

It's been 2 years since Paige has seen the Doctor. She's been living her life. Alone. On Planet Earth. And then it starts. Daleks rain down from the skies.  It's the Dalek's newest invasion of earth - it's not like that's a new thing. But something's wrong. The Doctor is here -  in a new body, and she's sad. Sick of all of the death. Angry at her past selves for not doing anything. The Daleks have to be wiped out! The Doctor is starting up a new time war...the humans versus the Daleks... and Paige has to stop her!

  Torchwood: Gossamer Ghosts A Pride Month One-Shot with the Parody/God Among Us Cast Contains Characters from and Flashbacks To  Emily's Gone  by Gallifrey_Immigrant The Majority of This Story Takes Place Nearly Immediately After God Among Us ________________________________________________________________________________ A young person slowly walks through a city. They’re tired, and more importantly, they’re lost. They see a park bench, with one person sitting there. They hate sitting near complete strangers, but they’re so tired. So they sit. The person sitting next to them is a lady. She’s Japanese, with blond hair, and blue eyes. There’s a scar on her right eye. Her clothes look nothing like the young person has never seen. After a long silence, the young person accidentally bumps into the female. “Sorry.” “It’s fine,” she said. Then, “are you okay?” “Yes,” they said. “Just a little tired.” “I’m been tired too. Needed a rest,” she said. “My name’s Emily.” “Oh. Nice n...

As you come into this world, something else is also born. You begin your life, and it begins a journey towards you. It moves slowly, but it never stops. Wherever you go, whatever path you take, it will follow. Never faster, never slower, always coming. You will run. It will walk. You will rest. It will not. One day, you will linger in the same place too long. You will sit too still or sleep too deep, and when, too late, you rise to go, you will notice a second shadow next to yours. Your life will then be over.

 Dark Eyes 1 by Nicholas Briggs Dark Eyes 1 is very much ostensibly an experiment - at this point in Big Finish Doctor Who history there were very few boxsets whatsoever - and while there had been things like the first four seasons of Jago and Litefoot, it was still an unknown quantity for a series, and dropping the entirety of the usual Eighth Doctor Model of 8 stories that went out on the Radio per year, was something very few expected. It almost seems like Dark Eyes was initially intended as a 8 story radio series and then condensed, which helps to give it all the more a NuWho breakneck pace feel to it - but at the same time, I'm glad it is how it is, because really, despite my misgivings about four episode boxsets that are mostly the same story (much less by the same writer) (much less by Nicholas Briggs who I find is only good when he's NOT throwing garbage Terry Nation retreads at us) Dark Eyes 1 feels remarkably well paced throughout, and while I prefer the later refinem...

  A Cover for the Newest Brenda Blethyn Boxset -  Not placed on the stories themselves to avoid the reveal the Cybermen are actually in the story 3.1 Upload - Part One 3.2 Upload - Part Two

  UNIT: Extinction There’s a slight problem with UNIT Extinction - it's rather shit. Big Finish, out of nowhere, were given the new series license, and within moments, they were off and running to shove the New Series of Doctor Who into every Audio Drama they possibly could. Of course, the end result, is the majority of these early sets - Tenth Doctor Volume 1, Only The Monstrous, River Song 1, Churchill, etc, were rushed into production at great speed, and while some almost manage to recover (River and Ten make at least a good attempt thanks to James Goss on both counts), UNIT was the first. Shoved out onto the assembly line at great speed - we got Jemma Redgrave and Ingrid Oliver, quickly, make scripts while we still have them!  What does this mean? Well, UNIT was forged in this manner, and this was the mold the following Eight Boxsets would more or less follow. When it was the wrong choice from right off the bat. UNIT should have been a series that had a focus beyond nostal...

  Warning: Corpse Day is disturbing as fuck, and I will be discussing the stories’ themes. Corpse Day by James Goss I don’t want to admit I absolutely adore Corpse Day. Because it’s vile. Of course, that is the point of Corpse Day, intentionally one of the blackest hours of Torchwoods ever written, that it is intentionally one of the worst experiences you could have on audio, and honestly it disturbs me that I actively enjoyed how disgusting it was. Corpse Day is just wicked, bleak and hellish, and yet it is utterly captivating - my opinion on Corpse Day is a Contradiction. I hated it - but that’s the point of it, so I also love it for being stupidly well written but also dear lord a human being wrote this and I experienced it, what the hell?  Corpse Day is smart on many levels, throwing the ultimate cynic and ultimate optimist together in the worst of circumstances, and yet - I still don’t even want to compliment it, because as much as I enjoyed it, holy hell was it just dist...

UNIT: Silenced Legally speaking, Silenced should be one of my favorite sets of UNIT considering it has one of my all-time favorite Who monsters utilized in an actually clever way with a fascinating political plot. In practice, it’s still better than a few other sets, but it fails to reach the highs that Re:visitations and in some ways, Cyber-Reality had, due entirely to the fact that much of the set is forced by necessity to repeat itself. As such, the longer UNIT: Silenced goes on, the more you see the same few plot threads repeating themselves  as the story must still repeat itself for four hours. It’s the Silence’s gimmick - telling a story involving them can be difficult when the audience knows so much more about them than the characters do, especially with the utter knock out that Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon is, ranking as one of my favorite modern two-parters. How can Silenced possibly compare? Well, it tries it’s darndest, that’s for sure... House of Silents by Matt...