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  The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Back To Earth omigod you guys!! he's like, back to earhth and everything. OMG. the like ninth doctor never does that at all oooooo I'm like totes excited for, like, the earth, and ...the back. like that stuff is just f a b   you get me sis? spill the tea Okay, bitchiness to the side, what I will be further referring to as 9DA volume 5 as that title is just plainly stupid, is more of the same content we got so far in series one. I can't exactly fault that necessarily. There have been plenty of series before where we got stuck with an arrangement for two seasons - Jo Grant, Clara and a few other companions stuck with their Doctors for quite some time so I can't necessarily fault the season for doing what is essentially the same. You could argue that if it isn't broken you don't necessarily have to fix it. What it does do, however, I must admit, is refuse to innovate in any way upon what was established in series one. I think that'

The War Doctor Begins: Battlegrounds Battlegrounds is an interesting release to say the least, the third volume of the War Doctor Begins series, a loose sort of season that sort of reminds me to a certain extent of the similarly done Ninth Doctor Adventures boxsets. Both have one of those increasing trends of Big Finish sets, the weird all or nothing approach. The weird all or nothing approach is my strange little term to say it's not a set like Water Worlds or Doom Coalition where the stories all form an arc but are all their own stories. The All or Nothing approach isn't like that. It's these sets that don't have any stories in common with each other. You either get a set like Ravagers or Warbringer or Kaleidoscope where it's ostensibly one tale, each dependent on the previous installment, (all) or sets like The Outlaws, Lost Warriors, Silver and Ice, where the tales don't have any continuity between eachother at all (nothing). The War Doctor volumes adhere to

  The Fourth Doctor Adventures: The Nine Doctor Who The Fourth Doctor Adventures Series Eleven Boxset Two The Nine is a set featuring precisely one story of The Nine, which I think adds to the whole thing that just giving boxsets their own title doesn't necessarily make things less confusing to newcomers. You know that a series starts with volume one and goes to volume two - you don't know that it goes from Solo to the Nine or Back to Earth to Into the Stars or What Lies Inside to Connections! But oh well, false advertising aside, I don't know what else you'd call this loose but frankly fun little collection of stories. Most boxsets have abstract names like Hidden Depths or New Frontiers anyway. And I'm rambling, because One, I have to fill out this paragraph that encompasses the entire boxset as a whole, and Two, There isn't very much to say about these stories having much in common except for Tom Baker on his own, doing his thing with whoever has to tolerate h