I expected I’d enjoy this more on a re-listen but I actually kinda liked it less. It’s fairly fun to have all these characters back but it’s way too far up its own ass and hardly means anything. The whole appeal for me is to see 7 post-Dark Universe, in his Time Lord Victorious mode. We get a little bit of that (and I mean a little bit), but it’s far too bogged down in monologues and callbacks and technobabble. Maybe part 2 will make this better in retrospect? I certainly hope so.

How do you rate half a story

Inaccessible, overly long, boring and with nothing happening. I'd give it a 2.5* because at least performances are good and there are snippets of good ideas, but unfortunately it loses half a star because Garundel is genuinely the most annoying character Big Finish have ever created