When I realised this was a pure historical early on I was very excited to see where it went. The side characters were easy to route for, and felt pretty believable. This is a very Mell focussed story, and it was interesting to see her react to the situation her and the doctor were in, as well as the situation of Roman society as a whole.

Unfortunately I didn’t find the antagonists all that interesting. Their motivations were spelled out explicitly in a way that made them feel pretty one note.

For the first half of the story at least, the doctor is very defeatist about the situation which can be a downer.

Also I’d say (vague spoiler) the ending it pretty predictable and anticlimactic. But I suppose how they get out of the situation isn’t really the point of the story.

The format of this one took me way too long to really vibe with. I spend most of the story feeling frustrated instead of intrigued like I should have.

By the time I understood what was going on enough to really feel invested there wasn’t much going on anymore because the building of action was going in reverse.

It doesn’t really feel like this format fits this story, although the story itself would probably be boring without it.

The ending does do a lot to finally make the story feel meaningful, but it doesn’t solve how I felt throughout most of my listening experience.

Mediocre leaning towards bad, honestly. The antagonist is just an uninspired “what if this everyday thing was an evil alien” that doesn’t do anything interesting with the premise after the first few minutes. The moral of the story is also so unsubtle and surface level. This all felt pretty purposeless. 

This is the only escape room I’ve ever done so I don’t have much to compare it to but I think it could have been a lot better.

It only consisted of one room and the doctor who theming was pretty limited. The challenges themselves had nothing to do with the show as far as I remember, but were general SiFi ideas.

One of the tasks was actually slightly broken, and from what I’ve heard from other reviewers it’s been left in this state for years.

The last task was also a complete mess that I still don’t even understand after they gave me the answers.

I only managed to complete the room because we were the last people in that day so they just gave us extra time, which was nice of them.

It’s just a re telling of the Christmas invasion but from the sycorax perspective, which actually isn’t very interesting, at least how this does it. The perspective character is supposed to be a scribe but nothing about the writting gives that impression. It’s just a worse way of experiencing the Christmas invasion that adds very little new

Just once could a story about a Raxacoricofallapatorian not be about them being a Slitheen, being evil, and then being brutally murdered without hesitation? This is just another story that pays lip service to the idea just they’re not all evil but continues to use them as a generic baddy character. Rose mistaking a random guy for a Slitheen was at least something.
Also what kind of fun fair has an actual water slide?

A funny story with a likeable perspective character. Typical silly 8 + Charley interactions too. Definitely worth a listen if you like low stakes stories like that.

I didn't enjoy the writing style of this. Pretty dumbed down, and sometimes it was a first person stream of consciousness thing that's really not for me. The story was also pretty aimless, could have probably been at least one less part long.

The interactions between The Doctor and Houdini where fun though, so that's a positive.

An intriguing story throughout. Bit confusingly written at times but it comes together and makes sense in the end.
Might need a second skim read to fully get it, at least I did, but I was tired when I read this.

Maybe it's just because I've watched the serial so many times that I enjoyed this slightly different version so much but I do highly recommend this if like me you're a big fan of The Time Meddler serial. It's able to expand on the feelings and motivations of the side characters that makes the scenes focussing on them so much more interesting. I never got bored reading this book, where as the serial definitely has moments where it loses me.