The Eighth Doctor story is a cool little "you're trapped in here with me/I'm trapped in here with you" type story, with a really enjoyable robot character and Dame Kathryn Drysdale to boot. The Tenth Doctor story is a bland space opera that might have made half of a good TV episode.

A fun if somewhat simplistic narrative. It packs an impressive amount of content into what is essentially two half an hour stories, and the robot antagonist, who has been driven mad by psychic voices in his mind, calling for him to kill people, is a pretty fascinating character.

Paul McGann and David Tennant give two of their strongest audio performances here also, as they perfectly evoke their respective incarnations. It's just a shame they couldn't find a way for them to meet up, and experience the audio's plots together.

📝7.0 = ENJOYABLE!

Time Lording through time and space, one victory at a time!

VICTORY XI

The first Big Finish audio in the Time Lord Victorious event is Echoes of Extinction, which consists of two half-hour parts: the first with Eight and the second with Ten.

The first part sees Eight arrive at an undisclosed location, coming face-to-face with a creature forced to kill anyone it meets: an imprisoned woman and her jailer robot. He soon begins investigating the creature’s purpose and abilities. This first half of the story is pretty meh on its own, but Pau McGann is great, and Paul Clayton provides a superbly compelling performance as Edwards, the robot jailer turned servant.

The second part picks up during the Tenth Doctor’s travel home from the Dark Times, as he joins an expedition to the long-dead world sometime after the Eighth Doctor has left it. David Tennant slips back to his old role effortlessly, and the 30-minute story builds tension. It also shows how the Doctor has learnt his lesson from the Time Lord Victorious business, which is why it's satisfying to listen to it at this point. The guest cast is superb, especially Burn Gorman and Arthur Darvill. This part is simple but pretty exciting once the Network is fully unleashed.

A Story with two Halfs, which could basically be their own little Stories:

The eighth Doctor Story is lovely, simple but yet very effective with some great Moments for 8.

The tenth Doctor Story is kinda a bit too Standard and brings down this Release sadly. Tennant does a solid Job here, but sadly the Material is a bit bland, really.

Big Praise for the Side Casts with familiar names from the World of Who!

I think this almost serves as a beginning and end to the Timelord Victorious event. Two episodes, two Doctors.

Part 1

The Eighth Doctor arrives on a spaceship/station, there’s Jasmine who wants to escape, her robot butler and a monster that just wants to kill…

Its a nice enough story. Its half an hour and reminded me of one the free give aways years ago with DWM.  So not that in-depth and as I found with the other audios, how it connects or what it adds to the overall arc of Timeord Victorious I can’t decipher. In fact you can just enjoy this as a audio by itself without any issues.

 Part 2

The Tenth Doctor, a similar situation the ship he finds himself on are going to a planet, its inhabitants wiped out, they’re looking of the thing that caused it.

The previous episode left on a little bit of a cliffhanger. It feels that this could have been a sequel to any Doctor Who story. There’s plenty of episodes where things are left and this picks up the pieces, and shows what happens next, or at least,  sometime later. There are moments where the Doctor feels its familiar, and you do wonder whether he’s going to cotton on to his previous adventure.

The Tenth Doctor channels the Sixth at times, which I enjoyed. There was a reference to the Kotturuh, and it connects to the Eighths Adventure.

There are some acting names in this release, Burn Gorman, Arthur Darvil, Katheryn Drysdale, through I didn’t actually notice it was them. Though I was playing in my my car while driving.

Having listened to all the BF TLV audios, I haven’t really got a sense of the Timelord Victorious storyline. So some elements were a little lost on me (having read the novels etc. it does work better as a whole). But an enjoyable release.

Disappointing that the Doctors don't meet, but I knew that going into it. The Eighth Doctor story is good, nothing exceptional, but the 10th Doctor one I didn't enjoy all that much, hence the rating.