AUDIO DRAMA
BIG FINISH RRP £40.00 (CD), £35.00 (download)
After the, frankly, astonishing Dark Eyes finally reached its conclusion, I was almost sure that the Eighth Doctor stories destined to follow in its wake would fall short of the mark set by the tales of Molly O’Sullivan.‘ Almost’ being the operative word in that particular mental equation. You see, as much as I thought it wouldn’t, and couldn’t, happen, part of me hoped against hope that somehow the folks at Big Finish would reach down deep and pull another rabbit out of the Eighth Doctor’s hat. Well, it seems that if you hope for something hard enough, sometimes, just sometimes, it works. Fate and the other forces that determine such things, get together and conspire to make it happen. The other forces, of course, being the writers, cast and crew responsible for bringing ‘Doom Coalition’ to life. They’ve done it again, and with the first arc of the new Eighth Doctor multi-part adventure, they’ve created something spectacular.