Ghost Train

Prerequisites: None needed for the most part, other than the knowledge that the other stories in this boxset have been with a similar structure of the Master telling a story to an audience.

Signal and I'll Come to You ends this boxset on an alright note. The story the Master tells this time around is pretty engaging, and I did find myself liking the characters. The idea of some entity from the Time War being trapped in a time loop/paradox thing and the Master needing to complete the loop to keep it contained is pretty cool, and I think it's set up decently here. However, as a closer to the overarching story, this audio doesn't satisfy me. The reveal that the Master here is just a projection from his Tardis after he left the Time War is something I'm mixed on. While it does cast the previous stories in a more forgiving light, it also renders them just a bit more pointless, since this is a story thread I'm not particularly interested in. I love the War Master range for displaying just how manipulative, cruel, and even petty the Master can be... and we just don't get a lot of that in this boxset. The Master is more of a side character in nearly every story here, and it just seems like an odd choice for the Handcock era of this range to end on. Somewhat disappointingly, I think I'd call Future Phantoms the worst boxset of this range, and something I wouldn't recommend people buying. Still, this isn't bad by any means, it's just not up to the standards I've come to expect.