The Other Side

Lots to say about this one. This was my first taste of Briggs' impression of the Ninth Doctor and I have to say he really knocks it out of the park. In spite of Bruno Langley now being a convicted criminal, I was able to enjoy his (what I guess will be one-time) return. I've always thought Adam Mitchell was a bit of an interesting figure in Doctor Who history as the "failed companion" - who pretty much exists just to have made Rose look better.

It's interesting having a story, here, that humanizes him a bit and smooths out some of the kinks in his tenuous relationship with the Doctor. With all that in mind, the story rather refreshingly focuses on a rather basic plot of our time travellers being stranded from the TARDIS and needing to work their way home. Though, personally, the story works better for me when it is just a simple "Time Tsunami" rather than a plot by villainous aliens. The aliens are pretty interesting but they don't become part of the story until later into the game, by which point I was more invested in our main characters working their way back to the TARDIS and into the present. If the story just stuck with that stuff, I would probably have liked The Other Side even more. Effects aren't much to write home about and don't really add much to things, either.

Still, it's a fun story for fans of the Ninth Doctor era, as Big Finish perfectly recreates the tone of Series 1 here. I would recommend it to said fans of the Ninth Doctor (and pretty much only them, unfortunately). For fans of the larger franchise that don't really care for Rose or Adam, or for casual viewers, there's definitely better options out there before coming to this particular story.