Ravagers is over and we can get to the rest of the 9DAs. Eccleston has HARD carried this set and it shows. Some neat timey wimeyness does not save an unnecessarily confusing boxset that really needn't have been the hook for a new range.

Briggsy... you don't need to write every single story. It doesn't always work. I never loved Nova and frankly I'm glad she didn't become a regular. What's the plot again?

Woof, this is a pretty rough start to the 9DAs. Whilst the novelty of having Eccleston back carries this story for the most part, it falls flat in so, so many other ways. Still the best Ravagers has to offer.

And s2 comes out with yet another banger, to the surprise of nobody. Holy f**k what an episode. I will not lie, out of all the episodes of the entire show, Midnight was one of the last ones I would want or expect a sequel to. That said, this is exactly how it should be done - it added just the right amount of information to the entity whilst keeping the mystery and not resorting to the same tricks as before. And both the regular's acting in this one? Dear god. And the ending!!! Is the entity just loose in the universe now???

Absolute cinema.

Abject slop. It's been months since I've heard it and it isn't any less rooted in my mind as being abjectly terrible. A terrible way to introduce a new companion, a terrible followup to the masterpiece that is Scherzo, a terrible, fetishistic plot, and a wholly unnecessary return of The Guy Who Wrote Peri Getting Tortured In An Unnecessarily Weird Way Twice. Seriously, why bring Phillip Martin back? How does one make a story about big bug accountants gross and icky in a bad way?

It's a take on the riddle of the sphynx... except it's a giant space cat that's guarding a planet Sutekh is on. It's alright. You get some nice insights into Osiran culture and the immediate events prior to Sutekh's capture. Not really much else to it.

A surprisingly competent adaptation of one of the better SJA stories. It is still obviously geared towards younger readers and there are typos a many, yeah, but it does what a novelisation needs to do and even adds in a few little nuggets of characterisation for Andrea that obviously wasn't explored in the show.

As of writing, I have not seen all of Doctor Who. That said, I do not think there is a single episode like The Gunfighters throughout the entire show, and part of me doesn't think there ever will be again. It's like the TARDIS landed in an entire different genre or something - part of me wonders whether the sheer camp of this story is leftover bits of the Toymaker's realm bleeding through into reality, or whether they popped in for a trip to the land of fiction.

And it was so much fun. The acting was atrocious in most parts (those accents, dear god), the plot was as cliche as one can get (even the doctor points this out at the end) and those musical interludes were so jarring... but I loved every minute.

This was one of the worst Big Finish audios I have ever listened to. Almost every aspect of it is beyond grating. Maybe Izzy has some hidden charm or appeal I don't know since I've never read the comics, but good god, her voice is atrocious. No disrespect to the voice actress, but it's so high-pitched and shrieky - was it meant to be childish? The missing comic story was... a thing. The outer space comic place was... a thing. It all passed in one awful haze. I did not enjoy a single minute of this. Not even Paul McGann's silky smooth voice could save it.