Looking back on the entire four-episode boxset, I'll say I'm hooked for the rest of Dark Eyes. These were actually some of the earliest plays I listened to, years before I found this site, when I was first getting into audio DW. But I don't remember them that well, hence this revisit.

Molly is a great companion specifically because she's not my ideal companion. I love when we get someone from a particular time and I know the 8th Doctor in particular has a lot of companions not from modern-day London (*ahem* 9th and 10th, get it together). Molly's a competent full adult with her own ideas and sort of take-no-s**t attitude in the authority role where the Doctor finds her. She's not just a starry eyed child, which is refreshing.

I liked the first two episodes more than the second two. Which is interesting because I usually like the timey-wimey future stuff more than historical stuff. But the sound design for the World War I era scenes were just SO good. Looked up the relevant folks to give them a shoutout here: Producer David Richardson and Sound Designer Andy Hardwick really deserve praise for taking us to this battlefield, then ushering us into a train of wounded soldiers. You can feel the tension as this cloud of mustard(?) gas pursues us through the night. Really excellent stuff. Makes me want to learn sound design.

The later episodes, including X and the Daleks, does lean heavily into the timey-wimey stuff. It has us fully abandon the earlier setting and gets very complex very quickly. Like 15thDoctor said in their own review, I had to rewind a few times to understand what was going on. Glad that wasn't just me.

Overall, excited to start the next boxset today.