A new Doctor, a new showrunner, and a new era for the show;  A lot of the charm and humor returns as well but it's still a pretty ok, middle of the road episode. I don't like that David Tennent has returned as a new incarnation. I don't like how Donna's memory wipe was undone. There was never going to be a satisfying way to get Donna's memories back - ultimately it was something that should not have be undone, but surely could've done better than what we got. At the very least Beep the Meep was hilarious and David Tennant and Catherine Tate are still as awesome as ever.  Sylvia and Rose are also great additions. This is still a massive step up from what came before.

One of the biggest problems with Sword of Orion is that its ideas are old like it came out of the 80s. The plot is a mostly generic rinse and repeat Cybermen premise in every sense of the word. Paul McGann and India Fisher's performances are both strong and very enjoyable but she is noticeably given a background role despite it being her first adventure as an official companion. The rest of the actors are not anything particularly noteworthy, but they're still tolerable. The most interesting thing about this story are the references to a war between human's and androids elsewhere in the Galaxy, I want to see that instead.

This is just a fairly standard, run-of-the-mill story.  Paul McGann mainly does a good job; India Fisher does a great job as Charley; the setting's interesting, the Web of Time arc gets fully going. This story is an interesting concept with a promising plot but is not executed quite as well as it could have been. Some of the dialogue feels really clunky especially when it's just the Doctor is alone and some of the voices are just overly cartoonish. The sound effects are also particularly bad especially the bullet effects. This along with slower pacing full of expository dialogue you have a story that is good but falls short of greatness

A mediocre Dalek story which features Briggs' usual endless references to the Hartnell Dalek stories. Some great performances, especially by Peter Davison don't elevate this story that gets lost in a tortured, convoluted plot built around another annoying time paradox and resolved, again, by the whole story un-happening.

The best story of the monthly range so far. The story is very much a dark comedy with existential dread and profound philosophy. there are a lot of excellent jokes and timing that made me laugh at multiple points. This is the first Big Finish story to contain the great talking bird Frobisher and he's immediately an amazing character with his distinct voice and loads of references to his appearance. With its stellar performances, well done characters, and crazy plot twists, it earns its rating with ease

Early BF tends to be clunky and this is no exception. While this might work well in a book and possibly even on TV or film, in an audio story, it's not very effective. I do applaud it for bringing Bernice Summerfield into the Big Finish world but that's pretty much it. McCoy himself is actually absent or takes a back seat for considerable spells of the story but when he is there he's only passable. Everyone else talks and acts like fictional characters from the 90s and not like real people. The Scourge are a typical villain of the week that's hyped up as extremely powerful but in the end up being toothless because of plot armor.

The problem with predestination stories in Doctor Who is that there tend to be not satifying way to resolve them without feeling like a copout. The Fires of Vulcan is pleasant enough. The setting of Pompeii is nice and it has enough going for it.  it was everything else that was going on that just took me out of it. Just like the last one it's a story that would be much better as live-action due to relying so much on visual representation. Performances were fine with the exception of one actor being way too over the top but other than that. The plot went in circles and the subplots along with the villains were utterly useless.

In the olden times Dalaks vs Timelords might have been a novel idea but this story is trying way too hard to be a visual spectacle. It’s way too convoluted and action packed, full of gunfights and battles that's really hard to capture in audio format - to the point this kind of becomes hard to listen to. The idea of a planet being stolen, Romana being captured, and Gallifrey being invaded are great but most of these are lost in the inconsistent tone and bizarre pacing

This is just a perfectly by-the-numbers story with fairly generic plot elements, a hammy cliche villain and a standard doomsday scenario. Colin Baker and Nicholas Courtney are working together and the chemistry is sublime. Another great part of this story is Evelyn. She's a lot of fun and also gets some really great moments by herself, investigating without the Doctor. However the story is overly long, especially in parts two and three and it's very difficult to take the alien threat seriously with it's utterly ridiculous performance.

Call of the Dead is a haunting and grim story and this acts as a wonderful introduction .  It's a simple story of two parts one with a father and daughter but the worldbuilding of this small colony is immaculate with fleshed out characters with three dimensional personalities . The Master takes a backseat in this story but his evil is felt though setting and characters

This is a great start to the box set which raises a lot of interesting directions about what is to come.