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TARDIS Guide

Overview

Released

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Written by

Matt Fitton

Runtime

49 minutes

Time Travel

Present

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Base Under Siege

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Scafell, Cumbria, Earth, England

Synopsis

Mike Yates braves a stormy night in the Lakes to help celebrate a milestone for John Benton. An evening of fond reminiscences of old glories and friends awaits. But a long-buried past is about to catch up with them.

Meanwhile, on the rain-lashed moors, what begins as a routine mission for modern-day UNIT quickly becomes a fight for survival.

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It's definitely cool and always a treat to have Benton and Yates back, especially with the actors returning.  Coupled with Kate Stewart and Osgood, it is a great experience having old UNIT meeting with the new.

Unfortunately while the cast and their character's presence here is a memorable part of the audio adventure, Call to Arms is kind of a boring affair overall.  I really wasn't drawn into the Silurian side of the plot here.  They aren't very compelling as foes for UNIT and I wasn't left excited for the rest of the UNIT: Assembled box set.  In this audio they are depicted as hunters, eagerly howling as they pursue their prey.  It was interesting at first but got annoying pretty quickly.  Jastrok, the leader of this batch of Silurians, did not connect with me as a character at all - he just feels like a generic villain.  And while that box set would go on to have at least some impressive moments to it, I feel like we start off in a pretty rough and underwhelming place here.

Still, in spite of this story not leaving much of an impression on me, the cast and recording is of a good enough quality that it wasn't too hard to listen through Call to Arms, either.  To its credit, it is far from a miserable experience and a reasonable way to get into the larger story going on with the Silurians.  It is cool seeing how UNIT has learned to deal with and monitor the Silurians since their early encounter with this species.  I did also like Bessie's surprise appearance near the end, that did make me smile.


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