Review of Time Lord Immemorial by Five_Hundredth_Drax
20 May 2024
After some fresh air from the Martian Invasion we go to... this...
Good grief...
I am disappointed.
Seriously, how could you waste such a potential of colliding the Doctors from different universes?!
The chemistry between the Ninth Doctor and the Unbound Third Doctor here is almost non-existent - they just bicker for some time and after that discuss the Time Lord Immemorial prophecy.
Liv and the Lumiat are just there, I have nothing to say about them.
Christopher Eccleston was great as the Doctor, but late great David Warner... for some reason he sounds nothing like himself, and he didn't do much and felt out of character. Which is a shame, since this Doctor has A LOT of potential in meeting the N-Space Doctor, but here he is present just for the sake of it. Swap him for Martin!Fourth Doctor or even David Collings Doctor, and aside from a few lines nothing would change.
And the Time Lord Immemorial... eh? He just sits there. And his prophecy is said to be very important, yet I'm pretty sure it won't be referenced ever again.
This was the story for which I was excited the most in this anthology, because I LOVE the Unbound Doctor and I always wanted to see him together with the N-Space Doctor. And when I found out it was going to be Ninth Doctor - the one who brought me into this wonderful series, I got even more excited.
And now... the potential is wasted miserably. I had fingers crossed for the next one.