It’s time to listen to and discuss Didn’t You Kill My Mother from the final 11/Valarie box set - Victory of the Doctor.
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I think that this is a good story that is just a bit too long. The story is great and the character work is amazing. I just feel like it is a bit too long, making it a bit too repetitive. This, to me, is what is holding it back from the highest ratings.
I do like John Dorney. I’m so glad that he managed to get some of his weirdness into this series before everything goes to shit across the rest of the boxset.
I love stories like this, time weirdness and forgotten identities and so on. Not sure I 100% understand it but I think it’s a good fun one and obviously important for what is ahead
Didn’t You Kill My Mother is an excellent story that starts the fourth and final Eleven & Valarie box set. Similar to All of Time and Space from the second set, this tale is an imaginative and different take on a Doctor Who story. It’s a quirky and imaginative opening part of what seems to be a four part story. The twists and turns in interesting ways, and really starts to pay off the entire Eleven & Valarie series. The themes it explores are fascinating and a welcome expansion on what has been explored already in this run. The voice cast does a magnificent job, with guest actors Lara Lemon and Homer Todiwala giving amazing performances. If the rest of this box set stays at this level, it should be a perfect ending to an already exceptional series.
4.5/5 (fav)
My rating system
5.0 Perfect/Fav
4.5 Excellent/Fav
4.0 Very Good
3.5 Good
3.0 Enjoyable
2.5 Meh
2.0 Bad
1.0 Very Bad
A tense and thought-provoking courtroom drama that brings the 7V arc towards a compelling climax; Didn’t You Kill My Mother? blends legal intrigue, moral philosophy, and Dalek scheming to great effect. Strong performances, particularly from Lara Lemon, anchor the story, while the layered reveals; Tim as a Dalek time machine and the Doctor’s forced moral dilemma; elevate it into something genuinely gripping. A cerebral, unsettling chapter that questions whether the ends can ever truly justify the means.
Holy arc development, what an installment! I continue to be a broken record as far as being impressed with how well this simultaneously replicates the Moffat era, and the way it builds on aspects that felt underexplored on TV. The plot twists/reveals in this one were quite well done and genuinely surprising, the moral dilemma aspect was compelling, and I think as a setup for the final box set this did a good job setting the stage and reintroducing the plot threads. A bit confusing at points, but nicely timey-wimey and imaginative.
An average story for 11 and Valerie (so 4/5). Didnt write a review for this one unfortunately so I don’t remember the details (which itself is a bit odd for this range)
I feel like this story suffers from a similar phenomenon as the Owl House episode “For the Future”. (The Ravenous story “Planet of Dust”, to be more local.) Because it’s the last one before the spellbinding finale, and doesn’t up its game to match, it looks significantly more inferior in comparison. Still, I liked learning the truth about Arabella’s client, and it’s wonderful that Valarie tiptoes to the edge when it comes to killing Arabella, and really, really enjoys staying there.
I continue to be a broken record as far as being impressed with how well this simultaneously replicates the Moffat era, and the way it builds on aspects that felt underexplored on TV. The plot twists/reveals in this one were quite well done and genuinely surprising, the moral dilemma aspect was compelling, and I think as a setup for the final box set this did a good job setting the stage and reintroducing the plot threads. A bit confusing at points, but nicely timey-wimey and imaginative.