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TARDIS Guide

Overview

Released

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Written by

Andrew Smith

Runtime

133 minutes

Time Travel

Future

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Lost the TARDIS

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Hydra

Synopsis

The Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara land on the planet Hydra, where Admiral Jonas Kaan leads a vast flotilla of ships trying to elude the vicious race that has invaded and occupied their world. But his ships are being picked off one by one, vessels and crews dragged underwater by an unseen foe.

The time travellers find themselves pitched into battle against the Voord, the ruthless enemy they last encountered on the planet Marinus. As they take the fight to the very heart of the territory now controlled by the Voord the stakes get higher. First they lose the TARDIS... then they lose that which they hold most dear. And that's only the start of their troubles.

In the capital, Predora City, they will learn the truth of what it means to be a Voord. And that truth is horrifying.

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Domain of the Bored 👎


ClydeLangerRules

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The Early Adventures was created as a way of creating full length stories for the first two Doctors, a combination of full cast and narration, in a lot of ways mimicking the vibe of listening to one of the lost 60s episodes. The series begins with the original TARDIS crew landing on a flotilla of ships traversing an ocean world under siege from old enemies from Marinus itself, the Voord.

When I started listening to this story I thought I was going to be in for one of the longest experiences listening to an audio in my life, and not in a good way. The opening felt glacially slow, and part one was the shortest of the story with part four clocking in at 39 minutes, I looked at that runtime and just groaned, it just seemed like the story was taking an age to get going. It does thankfully pick up the pace a bit in the second half but it's still fairly boring in some areas. I give props for Big Finish and some of the expanded media for trying with the Voord as they've had quite a few appearances in the last several years, but they're just not that interesting a villains. We get some insight into how their race works and the significance of the masks they wear and I feel I should find this interesting, but I just don't care about the Voord, they just personify meh villains. I think this story pacing wise would've worked better as an hour long Companion Chronicles, it more or less operates in that format with the Doctor absent for most of the story. A detail I picked up when listening to The Early Adventures on top of the narration giving off the vibe of listening to a lost 60s episode, it also accurately reflects the 60s by having the main characters absent for whole episodes during the story, as back then the leads would often be written out for portions of the stories to allow the actors time on holiday.

This is overall a decent story, but it is brutally slow for the most part and the villains aren't interesting enough to keep me entertained.


DanDunn

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i really liked the ian/susan relationship dynamic in this episode it works very well to focus on them as the surviving cast members. really dont like narration/audiobooks but it being half/half isnt as bad for me. i did feel it dragged a bit too long but thats cause its a 4 parter and for me 2/3 maximum is plenty.


Jamie

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29.09.2021

Waste of time. The interesting aspect of the Voord conversion is buried under two hours of the most basic s**t I've ever seen. And I've seen the whole Hartnell era.
I guess you could say it's accurate. 1.5/5


kiraoho

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Peak vord moment


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