Just started The Silver Turk - never listened to the Mary Shelley eps actually! So I’m looking forward to them. Also the theme tune is awesomeee
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I’ve re-listened to the first 4. Off work so taken a break from listening. Enjoyed it so far for the most aprt. These are adventures that I haven’t listened to since they were released.
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I kind of respect what Project: Twilight is trying to do, but god it’s such a deeply unpleasant listen.
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I’ll be interested to hear your thoughts as I was expotentially underwhelmed by each successive story and I’ve never understood what the ‘fuss’ about Mary Shelley as a companion was because I found her pretty meh. (I’d have much rather had more stories with Fitz or Izzy).
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One of my good friends said much the same thing, and we seem to end up having almost identical opinions on BF, so I’m trying to go into the other two with an open mind. I enjoyed The Silver Turk (though I must confess, I think I fell asleep at parts because I made the fatal mistake of lying on the sofa as I listened), so I’m interested to see where else it goes.
I would love love to see more Fitz on audio though, that would be brilliant.
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I love the Silver Turk, but will admit Julie Cox (Mary Shelley) and Claire Wyatt (Countess Mitzi Wittenmeier) did sound annoyingly similar on first listen.
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Just finished Army of Death - I found all of the Mary Shelley stories themselves enjoyable enough, but yes, I agree. Mary herself as a companion didn’t particularly inspire me in any way. She was just kind of there for most of them, and I didn’t really have a strong feeling about her overall
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I enjoyed her a lot, I do think her trilogy is diminishing returns but still interesting. Perhaps you’d find she makes a bigger impression in the Who novel I’ve read featuring her, Managra by Stephen Marley
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Ooh I’ve read that one! I went on a quest to read everything Sarah Jane had ever been in 
I thought it was okay tbh, I have no strong memory of it either way
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I’m a nerd for historical figure crossover stuff and basically everything that’s Managra’s whole deal, so it’s in my top tier of Missing Adventures lol
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Did a lot a lot a lot of driving today and listened the The Curse of Davros/The Fourth Wall/Wirrn Isle and I must day all three are very solid fun. Even Wirrn Isle, and I’m usually not a fan of wirrn stories because a. they freak me out on audio and b. they are unfortunately usually not great.
I liked the silly ideas in The Fourth Wall, not a revolutionary episode by any means but still a lot of fun when stuck in traffic.
And I have to say, despite my dalek burnout meaning it takes a bloody good dalek episode to actually interest me, Curse of Davros is probably my favourite one in this run of three. The end was a little convoluted but it was actually interesting so that’s something.
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Finished Creed of the Kromon a couple days ago and The Natural History of Fear today.
Creed was alright. It had some good musical score/effects. And the story was somewhat gross, but okay. Not as bad as I thought it would be. It lands right around a 6/10.
Natual History - ooohhh that was so good. It had me grinning at so many points! I could tell McGann was loving every bit of it. A tad confusing at times, particularly at the end. But still amazing!! Definite 9/10 for me.
**I wrote more, but realized this is just the Monthly Adventures forum thread. So I’m going to move the rest elsewhere!
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That’s a fun trilogy. I unfortunately had the twist of Curse spoiled for me beforehand so it was less impactful than it would have been. I liked Fourth Wall a lot. Wirrn Isle is definitely my favorite of the three tho.
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Natural History is one of those ones that everyone says is good and then you listen to it and you’re like oh yeah. Actually it is that good Paul McGann and the rat forever <3
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And I’m here to be the one person who heard it was good, listened to it and decided to disagree with fan consensus from that day on.
I just don’t see the fuss about Natural History - one of those ‘too clever by half’ jobs for me. Needs a re-listen though.
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In fairness that’s how I feel about Spare Parts… There’s always one fan favourite episode that one does not understand at all 
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Ah well that’s because you’re wrong about Spare Parts and I’m right about The Natural History of Fear.
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I feel similarly about Spare Parts! It’s good but perhaps not /that/ good
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Spare Parts never did anything for me either lol
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But…but, it is the ultimate tragedy. As listeners, we know exactly what the Mondasians will become and to see it painted for us with human characters who you really care for, brings home the horror far more than the origins of the Daleks in Genesis of the Daleks ever does. Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton are brilliant in one of their best performances as the Doctor and Nyssa. The personal level of seeing the beginning of the Cybermen so soon (relatively) after Adric’s death hits home and the contrast between the Doctor’s initial desire to leave Mondas to its ultimate fate and Nyssa’s determination to fight against it happening makes for some passionate scenes. The guest cast are note perfect, particularly Sally Knyvette as Doctorman Allen and Paul Copley as Mr Hartley.
And Yvonne - oh poor Yvonne.
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