The Gates of Hell - 6.5/10

The 5th Doctor, the 10th Doctor and the Cybermen. What's not to enjoy?

The second story from the Out of Time set delivers quite a different story from the first. Well I say different it is still all about messing with time but the Cybermen feel a lot more involved in this one I feel than the Daleks did in the previous, maybe its just because I prefer the Cybermen as monsters in general. Although I will say their stealth abilities are shown off nicely in this story which is always good to see.

The chemistry between 5 and 10 is wonderful to experience on audio, and reminded me of course of the minisode Time Crash from 2007. I really enjoyed how they bounced off each other each other in this story.

The setting of having different time zones is a familiar one for this set and here there's the use of France in the 18 and 19 hundreds. An interesting addition to this story though was a time agent who played a decently big role here and worked well with the plot. The actual plot itself suffices for the run time but it was just a little underwhelming for in the sense it didn't give me any wow factor like other stories have.

Overall The Gates of Hell gets a 6.5/10 because while it was definitely good it just didn't reach any spectacular heights through its run time for me personally, but 5 and 10 are still a delightful pairing.