REVIEW ALSO POSTED IN CASUALTIES OF TIME

The proper finale to the Williams era - And boy, am I glad to be out of there! This is an interesting story - but it's far too complicated to be split up into two different episodes just to rack up the money, one of the main issues I have with this range - and the fact that this is taking place on audio, too. I'm honestly left so confused - There were some parts where I understood what was going on, but then they just introduce new plot threads and The Black Guardian shows up and changes the entire story - but he only appears in Part 4. You'd think a story about The Black Guardian finally catching up to the Doctor and Romana would be a story in itself, but instead we've got Cuthbert changing history with quantum gateways and making AIs of the Doctor and Romana, and Romana making friends with random aliens. It's a mess of ideas and I'm not a fan at all - This is the biggest failure of the Fourth Doctor Adventures range. When it's simpler and calmer, it's boring, and when they go all out, it's too complicated to keep a track of, and it's stories like this that just don't make me interested in reviewing properly. It's a good story, but buried under too much.

I love how this finale seems to be connecting all the romana seasons so far i think it’s kind of perfect for that

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

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This is the beginning to a story that concludes a character set up all the way back in Series 2 of the 4DAs (who technically comes from an obscure Audio Visuals story). It definitely lives up to my expectations. We finally get the backstory on how the Conglomerate came to be and it's timey-wimey and malicious. The Doctor is quite ruthless in this story, showing how far he can go when trying to protect his friends.

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