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Our return to the Divergence Arc isn’t the greatest story, perhaps, but it’s a decent time with some, dare I say it, Douglas Adams-esque humour mixed into it.
Well worth a listen but definitely not a masterpiece.
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I find this a pretty good entry in the Divergent Universe arc. Probably one of the more straightforward stories of this experiment, with som intersting ideas, a fantastic setting and good themes.
8/10
Faith Stealer is an unsettling and thought-provoking entry in the Divergent Universe arc. Its chilling atmosphere, strong villain, and psychological horror elements make it one of the more memorable stories of this era. While the Miraculite feels like an extraneous addition, the cult dynamics and C’rizz’s internal struggles more than make up for it. The result is a gripping and well-crafted tale that explores faith, fanaticism, and the power of belief in a way that lingers long after the credits roll.
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6/10 from me, which sounds low but honestly it isn’t for DU. I find it a fun time but not much more… But a fun time with this miserable TARDIS Team where they actually enjoy each other’s company is a rare sight, so I’ll take what I can get.
I could use a ritual cup of tea…
The Doctor didn’t answer whether or not he was a god, did he?
I like Faith Stealer, it’s probably the 3rd strongest of the DU stories.
I think the comedy lands pretty well across the board, but it does drag its feet a bit in places.
Overall, there are worse ways to spend two hours.
I thought this one was actually pretty good, I really loved the concept, and a lot of the interactions were honestly lots of fun. I think for the divergent univers in total it’s somewhere in the middle / upper middle for me, but kind of just because I liked a lot of the DU audios a little more, and it didn’t blow me away, I just thought it was an interesting one.
While by no means a perfect Story on its own or for its Arc, it’s quite an enjoyable one, and that’s all what I am asking from this arc now. Quite a funny one as well, I had a few chuckles here and there!
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Bloody tourists
I love, love, love, LOVE this story. It’s not perfect but I think it’s a really effective commentary on the need for diversity of belief but the danger in letting that go unfettered. On top of that, it’s really funny with so many amazing one-liners and running gags (mostly from the Church of Serendipity). As someone who went through Catholic School from Pre-K to 8th grade and then had to do a lot of deconstruction about my beliefs and faith, some of the lines toward Jebdal about why she believes what she does just absolutely hit in the gut.
One of my favourites from the Divergent Universe arc. I just love the concept of religion as a literal free market; I consider myself to be on the outskirts of mainstream religion, so its perspective on everyone selling ideologies rang quite true for me.
This story was pretty good actually, I was surprised!
And it was pretty short for a Main Range story, which I appreciated[1].
I gave it 7/10 
Still waiting for the Main Range to blow me away again though like it did at one point…
I know this is like saying ‘the food was awful and there wasn’t enough of it’, but in reverse. ↩︎
You want it to do what?!
I liked this story, although I found it a bit boring in parts. It’s got a really interesting concept, I like that we finally get some proper exploration of C’rizz. Would like to see more of the Multihaven, it seems like a place that would have lots more interesting things going on
This was yet another dull entry in the abysmal divergent universe story arc.
Intresting concept, poor execution.
2.5/5
I just finished this and I’m pretty disappointed. The first part felt masterful to me, and I even got excited thinking it might end up being my favorite 8th Doctor MR story. The world they set up seemed really interesting, but surprisingly after that first part it felt very underexplored—with a pretty generic villain that didn’t grab my attention, boring side characters, and the whole Crizz subplot that honestly just felt unnecessary.
I gave it 2 stars.
Had more potential left in the writing room. It was good but so much stuff could have been explored.
While listening, I often felt like I could imagine this story, whilst seeing it in my mind’s metaphorical eye, looking like a classic Who serial, in a way that no other Eight story has yet been able to be. There’s something very classic feeling in this single odd, imaginative location. Though in many ways, the writing itself suggests a bit of RTD1 as well. The social commentary, the imagery of the diamonds growing in people’s heads, the melodramatic “The TARDIS has blown up!” It’s kind of perfectly the most boring version of what one would imagine the midwaypoint that the Eight Doctor is, to be. It’s very balanced feeling, it’s got a bit of the funny, and a bit of the terrifying, and you can get through it quite easily (I could, at least, it’s really very short). I thought it was very enjoyable, but also, the more I try to inspect it, the more unremarkable it seems to become. Funny.
Anyways, something I thought was interesting, is that for all that this story is about religion, while also having this (as has been mentioned by previous commenters) silly ridiculing Douglas Adams-esque flavour, you’d expect it to be doing much parody of religion. And it does, but it has unexpectedly little to say about the subject. It kinda stops at “Ooh yeah, isn’t it silly to believe in something so vague,” by introducing stuff like the paper religion, and the product religion, but even the latter seems mostly to be making fun of brand loyalty. The most direct critique is of cults, how they prey on vulnerable people by giving them a place to belong, but this is not something directed at religion.
Really, a lot of the ‘religions’ that we encounter have very little resemblance to any real world ones, and the whole thing seems to be more of a parody of businesses and the free market. The Church of Lucidity is (in the process of becoming) a monopoly, and its believers are consumers that are being used by a business that only cares for itself. Though maybe this is Duff’s point. But I’m not getting that impression personally. The story as a whole seems to not have all that negative of an outlook on religion. And for something that has a description that ends with: “It’s time to see the light,” I just found that to be very surprising.
