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31 January 2025
This review contains spoilers!
This is part of a series of reviews of Doctor Who in chronological timeline order.
Previous Story: Stage Fright
A beautiful end to Colin Baker's Sixth Doctor. He gets a proper regeneration story up there with stuff like Logopolis and The Caves of Androzani. It's also a brilliant culmination to The Last Adventure. Seeing the Valeyard's overarching plan come to fruition was nothing short of amazing. One of the very few times where an audio has completely and utterly grabbed my attention from start to finish.
Colin Baker's performance here was magnificent. I'm really glad that he's got a chance to redeem Sixie fully both in this and his wider catalogue. Listening to this story after having done everything else of his really brings a sense of finality to it that I'm not sure you could get otherwise.
Nick Briggs is not one to make bangers like this usually but he really has outdone himself. Full of twists and turns and drama - the scene where Genesta is revealed to have been the Valeyard all along was genuinely crushing, made even more tragic by the fact we don't know how long he's been her, if she'd ever even been real at all.
I could talk forever about this, and Sixie as a whole but I think I'll stop myself here and say this was utterly brilliant and nearly everything I oculd have asked for and I'm excited to move on with my Doctor Who journey with the Seventh Doctor. Though I will say, Six is the first time I've ever truly felt sad to see regenerate. He is absolutely the Doctor, whether you like it or not.
Next Story: Time and the Rani
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