All of Time and Space

An imaginative and well told first story in the second Eleven & Valarie box set. The plot is a different take on a Doctor Who story. While other stories like this have been told, they usually end up a garbled mess, that ends up not making much sense. This one does. The world and ultimate explanation is satisfying, with an emotionally satisfying ending. The cast does an excellent job, with the usual chemistry between Jacob Dudman and Safiyya Ingar, and great performances from the guest cast. The audio design work is exceptional as always. I can see a recurring theme in my reviews being that I wish this overall series was in live action. This story is one I definitely want to see.

It wants to be Heaven Sent, soo bad.
So All of Time and Space is an allegory for the show… and that's about it, it doesn't even keep that a secret for more than 5 seconds starting with a man narrating a story featuring The Eleventh Doctor and Valarie, but who is the man narrating the story? It's Waris Hussein, it's just Waris Hussein, he's Indian, he's gay and he dreams of Doctor Who, it's just Waris Hussein, no metaphor, no allegory, just literally one of the creators of the show with a different name.
Now, I don't feel like I am that grumpy of a person, but when a story is this on-the-nose about what it's about but pretends like it's really opaque, it just erks me, and the more I have thought about this story the worse it has gotten for me.
If you get something out of this, great, have fun, let me sit over here being Miss Grumpy-Face.
3/10