Circular Time: Winter

This is part of a series of reviews of Doctor Who in chronological timeline order.

Set during: The Caves of Androzani: Part 4

After having finished 5 on TV, it only feels fitting to finish him on audio with this story. Of course there's still new content releasing and I've yet to listen to his multi-Doctor appearances, but I think this is a fitting end for the bulk of it. Obviously, I quite like this story, it certainly keeps up with the quality of the rest of Circular Time but suprisingly I don't like it as much as I'd expected to.

I think this story struggles from the lack of narration from Peter Davison, that was one of the things I loved about the previous parts of this anthology. I do like how you can almost put this alongside the episode and see what's going on in the Doctor's head but that does leave it feeling a bit derivative. In general I think the other parts were subtler and dealt with the themes of death and rebirth.

It's also weakened a bit by having Nyssa so prominent and nobody else. I understand why as it would be pointless to get the other cast members to appear for cameos (though they technically did that for Caves), but it would feel a lot grander if you had more than just Nyssa. That being said it's still a great story and like I said before, a fitting end to the Fifth Doctor on audio.