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Review of Asking for a Friend by DanDunn

14 April 2025

This review contains spoilers!

While not big on plot, that's not the intention behind this story, instead it offers us a deep dive into the Doctor's core character. For someone who isn't part of the main line of Doctors, David Warner carries the role brilliantly as scene be scene we break down the layers of the Doctor's character through several therapy sessions as well as his struggling attempts to rule the universe which has strained his friendship with Bernice Summerfield, until finally we get not one but two breakdowns from him. Not only a both of them done brilliantly but they work together as different extremes of the Doctor reaching his emotional breaking point, the first being more explosive as his frustrations boil over. The other once his therapist works out what the Doctor's been doing to her life behind the scenes is more calm and more from the heart as the Doctor opens up about his loneliness and the weight he carries. Not only is this David Warner's best scene as the Doctor, it's one of my my favourite Doctor Who scenes ever written. This was a much better version of the idea Russel was going for with the Fourteenth Doctor, and I really liked what he did with Fourteen, in fact if Big Finish ever did a Fourteenth Doctor audio I'd want it to be something like this story.


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