REVIEW ALSO POSTED IN THE PURSUIT OF HISTORY

The proper finale to the Williams era - And boy, am I glad to be out of there! This is an interesting story - but it's far too complicated to be split up into two different episodes just to rack up the money, one of the main issues I have with this range - and the fact that this is taking place on audio, too. I'm honestly left so confused - There were some parts where I understood what was going on, but then they just introduce new plot threads and The Black Guardian shows up and changes the entire story - but he only appears in Part 4. You'd think a story about The Black Guardian finally catching up to the Doctor and Romana would be a story in itself, but instead we've got Cuthbert changing history with quantum gateways and making AIs of the Doctor and Romana, and Romana making friends with random aliens. It's a mess of ideas and I'm not a fan at all - This is the biggest failure of the Fourth Doctor Adventures range. When it's simpler and calmer, it's boring, and when they go all out, it's too complicated to keep a track of, and it's stories like this that just don't make me interested in reviewing properly. It's a good story, but buried under too much.