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This is my least favourite out of this boxset, it isn’t bad but I don’t find it as incredible as Better Watch Out/Fairytale Of Salzburg or as genuinely creepy as Seizure.

In this adventure (after the events of World Of Damnation and Sweet Salvation at the end of the last boxset), the Doctor takes Liv and Helen to Kaldor and whilst he investigates the robots and the locals, who are currently protesting, Liv and Helen go to the new leisure palace where things quickly turn sour as Liv meets an old friend. I find most of this story a bit boring and not as engaging and exciting as Robots Of Death. I do think that I’ll pick up the Robots series because I really want to know what happened to Liv and Tula during that year without the Doctor or Helen on Kaldor.

I just think that this adventure is overshadowed by the amazing stories of the following three adventures in the boxset.

Escape From Kaldor - (6/10)

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Yippee! I love being confused! This one is pretty crazy. I’ve listened to it about five times and I still don’t get it. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I love the Eleven’s part and Sophie Aldred does a great job at playing an Ace who holds a grudge against 7 because of how he manipulated her.

This adventure is a wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey confuser (this is a very confusing one and it has a lot of weird time bits). It starts with a deal Ace (Sophie Aldred) has struck with the Eleven (Mark Bonnar) where she is heading into the jungle to find a portal to a mysterious universe dubbed ‘The Dark Universe’. One thing leads to another, and to another, and to another and the Eleven becomes the ruler of the universe, the Doctor becomes his court jester and Ace is stuck trying to stop the Eleven and his other incarnations who have been separated out of his mind into robotic bodies with Cardinal Ollistra (Carolyn Pickles) and Rasmus (Damian Lynch).

The ending to this story is a bit lackluster and I don’t understand most of it. I also don’t understand why they set up The Last Day Part 1 + 2 in January 2020 and then released The Last Day Part 1 + 2 four years later.

Dark Universe - (8/10)

No, no, no, no! Stay away from my nightmares spaghetti head guy!!!

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What a nice one to start off on (what happens in it isn’t nice but I’m sure you get what I mean). This main range is an absolute gem by Paul Magrs. And that comes from a Mancunian himself. I’ll be honest, I had no idea this happened before I listened to it.

This adventure is a pure-historical (no aliens but they go back in time) where the Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison), Tegan Jovanka (Janet Fielding) and Nyssa (Sarah Sutton) crash into August 1819 after the TARDIS gets caught in the smog from the industrial revolution and falls into the garden of the house of factory owner and all-around idiot, Mr Hurley (Robbie Stevens). The usual stuff happens where Mr Hurley tries to take advantage of the TARDIS and at the end of part 1 when the Doctor realises where (or should I say when) is executed perfectly.

The way this story talks about real and horrific tragedies committed by the upper class that were overlooked at the time and also how it isn’t afraid to get real and dark is done really well and I want to thank Paul Magrs for this amazing main range installment.

The Peterloo Massacre - (10/10)

Genuinely, what in the hell is this?! Listen, I wasn't a fan of 13's era, don't get me wrong I like the Doctor herself but she was really let down by the writers (I'm really excited for Big Finish's series actually) but this was terrible.

Solid introduction to this amazing series. I think this prologue-of-sorts creates a lot of mystery about what's to come. I definitely need a series 3 of this.

Captain Jack, yay! That american guy again, boo! The Silence, the Ood, the Weeping Angels and the Sycorax getting cameos, yay!

This ruined the Silence and the Papal Mainframe/The Church Of The Silence but the regeneration made me cry and I think Handles is the best thing to come out of Series 7B.

No, no, no, no, no, no!!! Absolutely not, leave, now. This truly is a nightmare in silver.

I feel like it was a bit messy but I think this is a solid series finale.