What can I say, I just really really like this story. Fun time travel, fun Eight and Charley moments, fun magical sword, fun villain, fun everything. Not a single dull moment. Zagreus mentioned! 'Doctor who?' asked!!!

An overlooked, stellar early audio. Sebastian Grayling is a sensational villain, so well established that I fully anticipated that he would be in one of the stories that followed - you really get inside his head. (It would have been great if he was the big bad in ‘Neverland’).

Why aren’t more people talking about this?

Love this one! Not the deepest, but if they ever wanted to do a theatrical Movie of Doctor Who (i know we got that with the Daleks Movie, but they were more Daleks Movies than Doctor Who), this one would be pretty much a good Inspiration for.

On another note, I always have a big soft spot for Stories, where we travel to different settings in each of the Episodes. How the Story starts is amazing and I really love it! The Humor here is pretty great, and I think Eight and Charley are at some of their best as a duo here. After Chimes this is such a perfect comforting “actiony” Story, which mixes some aspects of Keys of Marinus and City of Death into a delightful romp!

Big Fan of the Story!

I didn't think an audio could pull off following up on Chimes of Midnight effectively, but Seasons of Fear is almost as entertaining and spooky, even if it isn't quite as polished.  There's a lot to like here, including the way the Doctor meets Grail out of order.  I don't love when we get to Nimon near the end, but everything else including jumping around time a bit in the beginning figuring out Grail, to that blockbuster of an ending where... something obliterates a couple of characters as a final little gut punch and hint at things to come, there's so much that Seasons of Fear has to offer.  It feels like a real adventure that makes good use of the Doctor and Charley.  I would definitely recommend this early run of Eighth Doctor stories.  They aren't all perfect, but there's a consistent thread of quality here that really feels like a polished and memorable equivalent to the best of the Doctor Who shows.  It is just so great this kind of content exists for the Eighth Doctor where it otherwise wouldn't.

08.07.2022

It's really really good, which took me by surprise, because only in the end the puzzle became completed in my head. The choice for the big bad behind the curtains in this was genius if not too on-the-nose. You couldn't ask for a more perfect metaphor. And Grayle's - the primary antagonist's - development is key to the story while not being obvious.

Zagreus sits inside your head. The message is one of the most relevant ones possible for me, so this resonated with me. Not quite 5/5, it's too simplistic and reductive in places for that, but 4.5/5 is easy to give.