Search & filter every Whoniverse story ever made!
View stories featuring your favourite characters & track your progress!
Complete sets of stories, track them on the homepage, earn badges!
Join TARDIS Guide to keep track of the stories you've completed - rate them, add to favourites, get stats!
Lots more Guides are on their way!
27 February 2025
This review contains spoilers!
With references to Miracle Day and much more, this is no introductory story, but Forgotten Lives does have some memorable aspects to it that make it worth listening, even if it isn't the best story overall.
I definitely felt some fatigue on listening, but on the whole there's a lot to enjoy. The bizarre choice to have Philip Bond playing Jack threw me at first, but I warmed up to it and the actor does a truly impressive job. We even get some interesting stuff with Gwen and Rhys.
I understand some people are a little cool or ambivalent in their attitude towards this audio, and do share that sentiment. I think the fact that the Evolved rely on body-switching style content is fine, but do wish they had a bit more fun with the idea. Instead it leans a bit too much on the drama for my preference when this is a story practically begging to not be taken as seriously. This is all punctuated by an abrupt ending I didn't find that satisfying or good pay-off to the more interesting elements of this story, and I feel like the stuff with Anwen should have hit harder than it did for me.
dema1020
View profile
Not a member? Join for free! Forgot password?
Content