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Review of Babblesphere by Ryebean

16 June 2025

This review contains spoilers!

Okay, so... I can't say much about this story - There's a lot going on, but it was very slow and boring.

I don't know whether it was the writing or Lalla's voice acting, but I can just picture Tom Baker running about and taking charge. It says something when your voice is so distinct that it's easy to write and portray it. I think this is the first audio I've heard with Lalla Ward and she's great - Romana gets her chance to be the Doctor and a more independent companion, rather than a screaming girl, and I hope this follows through with future stories - and the relationship between Romana and the Doctor is great, always bantering and messing about, and it's hilarious when they realise that neither of them have brought their sonic with them.

Okay, the problem I have with it is the ideas it brings. The Twitter parody is nice, but there's a mess of the way it's presented and I have difficulty following it, so much that I don't really know who the villain is.

I don't know what the setting is meant to be - There's so much going on just filling up the space that it just becomes confusing and they could've cut so much down and let it be one half an hour story. This shouldn't be an hour long, this should be a Short Trips entry. I can't say much more than that in a review. Aurelius exists as a side character, but that's it. It's odd because people really enjoy this story, but there's just too much happening in one story so none of them reach their full potential and it's just boring.


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