Okay my head just exploded a bit. But this is John Dorney, so I wouldn't expect anything less from him. I love timeloop stories, and this did not dissapoint. I do believe that this kind of story is dragged down a bit by the medium, as I would have loved this a lot more if it were a two parter in the modern series. If I normally have to rewind when listening to a standard story (cause my mind just goes off randomly if I'm not 100% invested into the story), in this case it was tenfold, especially at the beginning when it seemed to me it like an okayish story with nothing to it. I'll probably have to listen to it again at some point.

So yeah, if the show ever got the chance to do a limited series with the 8th Doctor, one of my top stories for them to adapt would be this one. The Daleks are handled so well (which is hard, as they are well overused at this point), the secondary characters are actually great, and the setting and sci-fi piece is incredibly well thought-out and innovative. Plus the cheeky call out to the Time War is a nice connection to that box set (which I have yet to listen to).

A fun, twisty first adventure in the post-box set standalone adventure era for 8 & friends; because of the very twisty time-based nature of this story, andalso driving around in a Dalek, this is essentially an ultra-Space Museum. It’s very cool how John Dorney has planned out the layers of reveals, and it all does click into place, but I think you could shave a full ten minutes off the running time if you just cut out every line where someone apologizes for how complicated time travel is or says they don’t understand what’s happening (one character essentially only says variations of this). The problem with that is that it makes the whole thing feel a bit apologetic for being complicated, which is sort of the opposite of what you want to do. Coupled with several absolutely diabolical lines (“he who smelt it dealt it” is criminal, Dorney), this is not one of my favorite of his scripts, but then he’s very prolific and almost all of them are great. This one is very good, but slightly padded. 3.75/5

Brilliant. CRAZY twists and turns that turned this story from extremely tense to extremely hilarious in the best way. It also might have the best dialogue I've heard in an Eighth Doctor story.

S.