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Review of The Artist at the End of Time by RandomJoke

15 February 2025

This review contains spoilers!

Honestly, this one just frustrates me.

It's a pretty solid Story, even if the degenerated 5 takes a backseat in favor of Colin's Curator, who is the Highlight here. I almost wish this was a simple Exploration of the Curator and his love of Art, his Insecurity of being the reason so many Places get destroyed and so on.

This is genuinely great Story beat and as far as a Curator Story goes, this is pretty damn good I'd say, even if I really wish we fully delve into it. But well this is another Entry in the Fun yet VERY messy "Once and Future" and it's going to have a remix of Characters, so uhh.. Throw in Davison and the Doctor's Daughter!!!

I think Davison is amazing in the Role of the Doctor. And I really like the Doctor's Daughter as an Episode, the pairing makes sense, so much so that we already got it in BF's own 20th Anniversary Boxset. Here it feels like an Afterthought, they don't feel important, there are some nice Exchanges between the Curator and the Doctor but ehh.. That's kinda it?

I hate being critical about a Story with "What it could have been", but really I find this more interesting to discuss than what we ended up getting with this one.

Not at all bad, a VERY good Curator Story, a very "eh" Doctor Story. Overall I can't give it anything higher than 3, part of me is tempted to rate it higher, because the Highs are very high, but the Lows feel uninspiring and bring this Release down for me.


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