The final volume of the Eleventh Doctor Chronicles is the perfect cap to one of Big Finish's all time great projects. For a range that had previously been decent at best and really only existed to add extra content to the Modern Who Doctors when the actors themselves were unavailable (why else did they sit on the second Tenth Doctor box set since 2020 till the one year David Tennant wasn't recording anything), this run of adventures between the Eleventh Doctor and Valarie Lockwood somehow manages to surpass almost every Modern Who release Big Finish have done. With the reboot of the Ninth Doctor Adventures and the beginning of the Thirteenth Doctor Adventures coming up, time will tell if they've learnt anything from this cos this really should be setting the standards for their Modern Who releases. The Last Stand of Miss Valarie Lockwood serves as the penultimate episode where the Doctor is brought to his ultimate low-point by his greatest enemies, desperate for any solution and the trauma of the Time War weighing more heavily on him than ever before.

This final box set in general does a perfect job addressing the flaws carried from the Eleventh Doctor era and how they handled the Dalek stories which have since carried over to the rest of the show and the Daleks just haven't felt the same since. The Daleks rebuilding their race after so many years of almost going extinct should've been treated with much more weight than how the show handled it, and now the Daleks are at the height of their power, but it's not something that's just told to us, we get a proper showcase in this box set of just how powerful the Daleks truly are.

This episode is mainly Valarie's story as the Doctor leaves her behind with Roanna in a final desperate attempt to stop the Daleks at the cost of his own life. Together Valarie and Roanna share a final moment of love between them as they improvise a marriage before even further heartbreak happens. What follows is one of Safiyya Ingar's best performances as she completes the circle that began all the way back at the series beginning with a shocking reveal as to the true identity of who's been orchestrating the events of the series. There's a bit of a time paradox deal towards the end that some listeners may get confused by but it does help set up the finale and shows that Valarie's story is not quite over yet. Jacob Dudman once again does Matt Smith justice with the final scene giving the Eleventh Doctor his own "No" speech similar to the Ninth Doctor where after two absolute downer episodes with our heroes in the most hopeless situation possible, the Doctor's about to come back with a vengeance!