Stories Audio Drama Big Finish Main Range Main Range Episode 189 Revenge of the Swarm 1 image Back to Story Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Date (Newest First) Date (Oldest First) Likes (High-Low) Likes (Low-High) Rating (High-Low) Rating (Low-High) Word count (High-Low) Word count (Low-High) Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 2 reviews 17 March 2025 · 245 words Review by thedefinitearticle63 Spoilers This review contains spoilers! This is part of a series of reviews of Doctor Who in chronological timeline order. Previous Story: Afterlife Now I quite like The Invisible Enemy. It's no masterpiece, but it's really good fun. It has a lot of charm; I liked seeing K9 trundle about to absurdly epic music, or the main enemy being taken way more seriously than their design deserved. All that is only charming because it was a low-budget BBC production from the 70s. This is a modern story and it should be written to modern standards. Unfortunately, it's a really dull, trad Doctor Who story. I didn't look at the writer going into it, but I could tell it was Jonathan Morris just purely based on the fact that it was a lazy sequel to random Classic Doctor Who story. It also screamed "40 year old man writes about the internet". I'm not really getting the point behind bringing back Hex, only for him to essentially be a completely different person. I'm sure it'll come to some sort of satisfying resolution but it definitely takes me out of the story a little. It's also the fact that he doesn't get much of a role either, he's possessed for essentially the entire story, a telltale sign the writer has no idea what to do with the character. Overall, it's not great but I hardly expected anything all that remarkable from a lazy sequel to The Invisible Enemy anyway. Next Story: Mask of Tragedy thedefinitearticle63 View profile Like Liked 0 16 January 2025 · 248 words Review by KnuppMello 1 Original (Brazilian Portuguese) Translation (English) É evidente que Revenge Of The Swarm bebe muito na fonte de The Invisible Enemy, basta observar a capa do áudio – Não é à toa que essa é a maior critica feita em cima dessa aventura, de fato parece que tudo aqui é uma reciclagem de conceitos e acontecimentos do arco do 4° Doutor porém (ao meu ver) bem alterados. A primeira metade não é tão instigante e cativante assim, vemos o mesmo que acontece na história do Tom Baker, personagens sendo infectados pelo vírus (toda aquela coisa de “Contact Was Be Made!”) o Doutor e Ace tendo que correr contra o tempo para evitar planos maléficos sempre tomando os devidos cuidados para não serem infectados. Como continuidade essa história peca em não explorar o Hex, pode chegar a ser algo muito frustrante para o ouvinte tendo em vista do que aconteceu no áudio anterior - Basicamente ele é infectado tornando um aliado da ameaça, assim se prendendo ao papel de “capanga do vilão” (podemos dizer assim kkkk). Eu gostei da parte 3, proporciona cenas bem divertidas e um conceito bem legal envolvendo vídeo games - O Doutor e a Ace na motona em alta velocidade...foi bem divertido ksksks. Em resumo não a muito o que dizer de Revenge Of The Swarm, acho que o escritor poderia trazer uma história mais diferencia que fugisse um pouco de acontecimentos semelhantes ao de The Invisible Enemy...E claro, um pouco mais do Hex. Click here to translate KnuppMello View profile Like Liked 1