These stories are part of the second act of this event, telling the story of how the Daleks became part of this narrative. Although this takes place before Act 1, I recommend reading them after Act 1.
The Last Message - Time Lord Victorious Trailer
Short video
Incoming message from the Dark Times…
Watch it here:
The Last Message – A Mission to Destiny
Eaglemoss - Short Story
The Last Message was the second of four Time Lord Victorious short stories released by Eaglemoss Collections. It was printed in DWFC TLV 1, which came with the Dalek Drone and Dalek Emperor Figurine Set.
It’s definitely one of the more fluff pieces of TLV. It’s not bad, it’s not good, it’s there. The fan made audiobook is good though. I also really like the little trailer!
The video is a decent teaser, but assuming you haddnt done anything else TLV The Daleks are probably the worst choise to send the message as its kinda like “well duh The Daleks dont like The Doctor”.
The Eeaglemoss story about it wad a lot better though, if still 3.5/5
I love the word “interesting”, I use it all the time when something fascinates me. Nothing better than learning new stuff/hearing an entirely new perspective… but I can totally see how that’s not something that is of any use to a Dalek.
"The Dalek’s had made themselves time sensitive. It was — it accessed the word it needed — “pride” to the Emperor.
Happy pride month, Daleks!
“That could only be found somewhere like the Archive of Islos”
Ooh interesting, so I wonder how this archive is going to play into the story… excited to find out!
Enjoyed this one, feels like it’s setting up something exciting!
I’m looking forward to finding out how they end up teaming up with the 8th Doctor!
I expected to have no feelings whatsoever either way, so I was surprised that the voice really quite irritated me. Maybe it’s because it’s damaged and so it’s out of sorts, but it just sounded… wrong, and I didn’t love that. Also, SUCH an intriguing choice to juxtapose the dalek’s message to camera with the Doctor’s advice to subscribe to the official Doctor Who YouTube channel - it’s not a twist I saw coming, I didn’t realise Thirteen was going to be so prominent in TLV!
The Last Message
I quite appreciated this. I’m not a big dalek fan at all and it took a few paragraphs to adjust to being inside the head of one. But it was well written and a really effective companion piece to expand on the trailer. If I’m being picky, it seemed a bit silly that the Emperor doesn’t call on the strategist ‘for a reason it could not reveal’, given that the Emperor is alone and we’re just seeing into its thoughts, so there’s nobody it would really be revealing it to. But that aside, this was nice enough. Literally the only bit of TLV I’d experienced prior to this club was the Daleks! series[1], so it’s nice seeing a prologue of why they go where they go.
I’m nervous about where we’re going because, as I say, I’m not big on daleks. And I don’t remember being fond of the mini-series. But I’m hopeful that putting it all in situ will help. I have to say, everything is way more intricately interwoven and connected than I had expected. This is fun!
Not much to the video, but the story was kinda neat! Just finding the text ver was incredibly difficult so I docked points for that (though I probably shouldn’t have)
Yeah, the trailer is a bit of a nothing but does look cool.
The short story is fine but didn’t really grab me. I’m interested to revisit the next bunch of stories though because, aside from The Waters of Mars, they’re the only other bit of TLV I ever did.
Oh except Time Fracture. I did that. And it was so good! Have I mentioned that before?
