The Powers Behind the Throne

4/5

This story is a recap of the multiple iterations of the Cyber-Controller and Cyber-Planner and how they were defeated doesn't give much in terms of a story but is a nice little recap and leaves on a cliff hanger which is later resolved in Silver Nemesis. Nothing bad nothing great.

The Creation of the Cybermen

3/5

The creation of the cybermen is taken from the story Tomb of the Cybermen which is turned into a very short little story about the cyber-mondasians. This story however does not mention how Mondas was taken off of its axel due to want for space travel by the Mondasians and believe it was a strive for immortality and not the strive for survival that it was. This may end up being my lowest rated cyberman origin story. Instead of reading this go listen to Spare Parts or Genesis of the Cybermen both stories are amazing in every way.

Present Tense

4.5/5

A very cute quaint little story to lift your mood. You cant really do much with the amount of pages this story had but it works with it and does it well  with it starting with the Doctor and Romana excited to give each other gifts with k9 happy due to the  Doctor giving him a fake gift the doctor reprogrammed him to like the week before which is a nice little joke. The Doctor eagerly gives Romana her gift excited for her to open it. The gift is a beautiful crown with a gem that Romana doesn't act to excited about, which we find out later is because the doctor has gotten it for her before which makes him upset and then Romana reassures him that its alright and the Doctor then finds out his gift is in the Zero Room, Romana tells him the date. She gave him peace on earth, the Doctor shows his big grin and goes towards the zero room

This story has a nice couple jokes but due to its length, there was no point in it that wouldn't help lift someone's mood with the K9 percentage moment being a personal favourite due to how much it happened during the actual series

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That Time I Nearly Destroyed the World Whilst Looking for a Dress
5/5
Polly is amazing this is the universe where Polly's life goes off the rails and into a swamp infested by man eating crocodiles and gin.
This starts off strong immediately with the line "I met God at a celebrity funeral" then explaining how she met God at the funeral making extremely funny and witty jokes all the way through then we get to meeting God (which lets be honest should be headcannoned to look like miriam margolyes) appears with a tinsel halo and sends polly through time cause they are bored. For you guessed it... a Dress! it starts with Lady Marian who looks like Polly and is rocking the most beautiful dress that polly wants. Then Ian and susan appear and try to get her out. They then leave and Ian comes back dressed as robin hood with robin hood kicking down the door, the sheriff appears everyone gets confused. A second susan appears then *BAMF* She's where susan gets taken from. This scene is ridiculous insane and absolutely hilarious at the same time with the writer Joseph making multiple references to big finish stories during this time

(Im going to skip foward to Fifth doctor also ps this book is absolutely insane in the membrane)

Polly lands on a cricket pitch in the 80's which reminds her of  husband #1. Who surprisingly is there with a pregnant Polly as peri and erimem run by her and herself. which her husband gets mad at. Polly ends up tackling peri and erimem getting into a fight with them both in which the doctor shows up questioning wth is going on and then one of the fielders misses a catch causing time and space to get unravelled because cricket is of course the most important sport on the planet as we all know (second place is snooker). Another fifth doctor appears and Erimem causes the 2 to touch ending the universe

Until it isnt, Polly lands on a boat with a sailor woman. They get drunk.  Polly reminisces about strip poker and what that did to her son causing her not to see him for 3 months. Its a bittersweet moment as Polly at first finds it funny but it becomes a sobering moment as she *BAMF*s through time seeing the look on her son's face and then *BAMF*.  She is then told it will be fixed as she lands back in the 1960's with Ben next to her. The Doctor and Jamie appear and they get drunk together play hide and seek, the doctor takes Jamie away to look at the stars. And as Louis Armstrong plays the saxophone Polly finally tells Ben  "I love you" and they share a final tear jerking kiss as the short trip ends.

Oh yeah My overall thoughts. This was something I did not expect, It was beautiful funny and extremely out of left field. If I had one single negative for this story it would be not enough Bernice Summerfield.

Jenny's second outing In big finish starts with a bang 4/5!
I haven't listened to the previous audios in this range due to it having the cybermen in this part.

But I quite enjoyed this audio Jenny and Noah are fun and hearing Dorium Maldovar in an audio is pretty fun.
The concept of the audio is cool and I feel like its handled very well, with Jenny seeing that theres a Tardis on sale and wanting to find it by lying to Noah, then the sale going down and it being a lie and Dorium doing back room deals with the shadow proclamation is a cool idea and shows why he hasn't been stopped yet. Him wanting to pay the Doctor back by helping his daughter is a nice part. Then ending with the Tardis being the asteroid and calling out to Jenny is nice and her shouting "ALLONSY" when taking off was cute.

This was my first review so it might be a bit wordy. :)