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7 April 2025
For a story that's all about the Doctor and Benny exploring a world so boring it's the law and anything remotely interesting is punishable by death, this was a really fun listen. The highlight of the story is David Warner and how the Doctor goes about bringing down the government. Benny is given the more emotional side of the story being paired up with one of the inhabitants and we get to understand more of how this world works the effect it has on its people. Something I've found about David Warner's Doctor compared to most other Doctors is he's kind of a badass! The way he defeats the villains and his complete lack of mercy is such a far cry from how most Doctors behave in the face of victory, it's the classic you reap what you sow and he lays that vengeance on the villains big time. The episode is a play on the Classic Who story The Happiness Patrol only it's the opposite case where no one is allowed to display emotion above mild, even names are just numbers. The Bernice Summerfield audio do tend to do parodies of Classic Who stories every so often, mostly in a ha ha sense and mocking some of the logic of the original, but this one feels more organic and really doesn't sugarcoat some of the darker aspects of this world. There's this brilliantly messed up scene where a government mole posing as a rebel leader manipulates his followers into committing suicide just for the sake of doing something interesting. This is easily the best of The Unbound Universe set and I think is a great way for newer listeners to familiarise themselves with the Unbound Doctor
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