Intensely atmospheric, with an eerie and spooky beginning. The opening premise, characters, and mystery pulls you in, and layers are added to the intrigue continually, keeping the momentum flowing, questions sparkling, and myself suitably thrilled. As the Static becomes explained, and the layers unravel, I don't think it fully reaches its potential, but it doesn't ruin a strong, atmoshperic beginning and approach to the story.

This is part of a series of reviews of Doctor Who in chronological timeline order.

Previous Story: The Middle

Really great story. The beginning is very tense, straight out of a classic horror movie. The setting and the general atmosphere is brilliantly unnerving and immediately hooks you in. There's a bunch of twists and turns and it's all really engaging. The Doctor and Constance go back to the past while Flip and the guest cast stay in the present. I love stories like this, where things are going on simultaneously in two different time periods and they link together. It's all very timey-wimey.

The idea of the military using this phenomenon to resurrect dead soldiers for information makes for some interesting implications. I do like how at home Constance feels in this time period and this story is really interesting for her character. Most notably because, well, she dies. Not fully, she dies in the Doctor Who way which is "get revived immediately after with some gimmick" but still, I wasn't expecting this story to do anything like that. I'm curious to see how that affects her, I hope it's followed up on in later stories.

I feel like the story falls apart a bit with the introduction of the Static. It turns this really cool unexplained mystery into "oh it's just aliens" which I always find to be the lazy way out. The fact that they appear so late doesn't help their case either and the ending just ends up feeling rushed. Still, the rest of the story more than makes up for it. Aside from the odd miss this run of stories has been really solid.

Next Story: Cry of the Vultriss

I so badly wanted to give this five stars as the well-realized mysterious setting and unnerving energy of the story are incredible. However, I unfortunately found it lacking in many surprises: by halfway through part two the story was obvious and there was a lot of wheel-spinning to get to the point where the villains show up at the end of part three. It takes a great TARDIS team and pushes them to their limits, but I wish it had more surprises.

Wonderful use of horror but I did zone out a little effecting my rating sadly

This is really quite interesting.

A couple go to a small caravan site in the UK. Their relationship hasn't been great since the death of Joanna's sister Susanah. Maybe a few days away will help, except for the fact that there's no televisions allowed or in fact radios, telephones, tape recorders....

Its a nice set up - the middle of nowhere, the mystery of the issue with the tellys and telephones, and the Doctor/Tardis noticing some local disturbances. There's also an opening scene of whats to come, and Percy Till - the site manager who knows more than he's letting on.

But the really engrossing part is that the story adds layers to the plot. A bit of a twist at the end of part one and you kind of think you know where this audio is going untill more complications are added. There's a lot more to it than it first appears.

I suppose it has a bit of everything, time wimey, tragedy, an alien threat.

Its more standout than the tipical adventure, and deals with loss and bereavment.

Not bad.