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Part One: Come Sail Away “ANSWERS WILL NOT BE GIVEN.” The Doctor was having a dream. She knew she was having a dream. She could tell. Colours were too vivid or too dull. The location swept away from familiar location to familiar location. There was a severe amount of disconcertion. “IT IS ALL DIFFERENT NOW.” The grotesque feeling of familiarity would not abate. Grocery store, now. She was in one. The shelves were all empty, every single bit of them, but the freezers weren’t off. It was cold. Cold for a dream. “OLDER. OLDER. WE GROW HARDY, STRONG, FROM THE WEATHER. IT DOES NOT UPROOT THAT WHICH IS AND NEVER IS.” Who was talking to her?? They were ancient, guttural, the voice of someone who smoked too much in their youth. No more grocery store. Now she was in UNIT, her old laboratory. Jo Jones (at this time, Grant) was sitting on the desk, not at it, on it, young and beautiful, wearing her hair down in a frizzy knotty mess. Jo Jones whispered to her, in a voice uniquely unlike her own: “...

  The Second Doctor Adventures: James Robert McCrimmon And the award for the “what were they thinking naming this boxset” goes to— I initially wondered why The Second Doctor Adventures even bothered with doing a continuation past War Games if they were going to jump back and immediately do more Jamie stories again. There are so few Second Doctor stories that even attempt to give him a life beyond Jamie, that one of the previous set’s redeeming features was that it was at the very least, new for the Second Doctor — a figure we had never seen before travel alone. Indeed, for that matter, Raven does the job as a new and unique companion in a way that we’ve never really had before. She’s Ollistra meets Catwoman, a strange and sensual villainess that the Doctor has to put up with. Why bother with anyone else?? At the very least, James Robert McCrimmon (what is WRONG with just saying volume 2 or Return of Jamie, this set does not deserve a subtitle, Jamie's name is not a theme) does seem...

  Torchwood: Among Us 3 Warning: Torchwood Among Us 3 is a very dark and political boxset, and the some of the things I will be discussing in the reviews below can be viewed as immensely distressing. And so, we reach an end. This may be the last Big Finish release I get in quite some time. There are plenty of stories that I'd like to re-evaluate, as well as a move to critical analysis of more than just strictly Big Finish Doctor Who - but we'll see where we go from here. Regardless, Among Sus was quite an eventful series, wasn't it - and it might just be something wondrous to bow out on.  Torchwood Among Us is something that perhaps I will write further about - it maybe - just maybe - deserves an essay about it as thorough as my Time War essay, as it's themes resonate much more closely to me personally than either Aliens or God Among Us - even if those series are both just as phenomenal.  Torchwood Among Us is more than anything, about the now. It has been since volume...