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TARDIS Guide

Overview

Released

November 2013

Written by

Matt Fitton

Runtime

60 minutes

Time Travel

Present, Future

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Oxford, Earth, England

Synopsis

23 November 2013. In an Oxford laboratory, graduate Alice Watson helps Professor Chivers assemble the final pieces of an impossible machine. A time machine.

The scientist and his assistant believe they are making history, little suspecting that the project’s completion will threaten the existence of the entire universe. But someone has sensed the danger, and when the mysterious Doctor arrives, Alice is taken on a desperate race from libraries and dreaming spires all the way to the nightmare world of Earth’s future.

The monstrous Creevix are coming. They seek control of time itself and are certain that the Doctor is already too late to stop them. But can the key to saving the future lie in the Time Lord’s past lives?

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This was a bit of a disappointing conclusion to the Destiny of the Doctor audio series. It has such a strong premise in the central plot of 'What if time travel existed in the then-Present Day of 2013?', but it doesn't feel like a conclusion to the overall story arc of the Doctor leaving messages to be picked up by himself in earlier incarnations. In fact, the messages are hand-waved away in the dialogue when the Doctor defeats the giant alien lizards of the story, the Creevix.

 

Jenna Coleman does a good job at reading the story, although strangely Clara Oswald is nowhere to be seen. It seems very odd to get Jenna Coleman to read this audio adventure, and yet not feature her companion anywhere in the narrative - especially when the other stories all have the respective companions of the different eras.

 

Taking away the lack of Clara and the underwhelming climax to the story arc, it's a decent story. It's nothing particularly remarkable compared to other Doctor Who adventures, but it's not terrible. It would just have been nice to have seen a tighter conclusion to the over-arching threads of this audio series.


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