I listened to this a while back in its proper place among that trilogy (MR #133-135). I found it kinda boring boring. It didn’t really enhance the trilogy, and just wasn’t my cup of tea in general.
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Just finished War Master - Anti-Genesis “He Who Wins”.
Best box-set in the War Master series so far.
Narvin and the Mark Gatiss Master were the standouts for me.
It was just a really fun ride this season had, and the story stuck the landing 
After four box-set seasons with the War Master I think I have to realise that he’ll probably never will be a favourite of mine.
Geoffrey Beevers, Eric Roberts and Alex McQueen are still my Audio Masters of choice.
I think @deltaandthebannermen has convinced me to visit Peladon next 
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I’m half way through this at the moment.
(This is my first time through ‘the monthly adventures’, I’m listening to them in release order.)
Really enjoying the story so far.
Ace’s comment that it’s weird being in a silent London lands differently to how it would have when it was written.
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I enjoyed that one too! If you want to come and celebrate or complain about the MR, I have a thread for that 
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Listened to Spare Parts. Yeah, it was a masterpiece. Yeah, I lowkey felt physically ill at parts. Yeah, it was an emotional rollercoaster. Peter Davison sure can act, can’t he?
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It’s weird, and maybe I’m wrong, but it seems lately I’m finding no middle ground in the audios I’m listening to. Either I’m really down on them or I really enjoy them, there don’t seem to be any “that was pretty good” reactions.
Had nothing going on at work today, and dug out The Three Companions and listened to it all in one go. This is one I really enjoyed. The monster stuff was not the focus for me, that was fine, but the letters between Polly and the Brig were just plain wonderful. Sure it dips a bit with the third companion, but by then I didn’t care.
Terrible delivery system for the tale, though, IMO, as it was originally included in 10-minute chunks with monthly releases, so it took a year to get the whole thing. Or, at the end, you had to go back and pull out all those releases, find the relevant tracks, and listen.
Of course all that is the only reason I can listen to it now. Knowing I wouldn’t be able to keep track over a year, I loaded the relevant tracks onto my computer so I could listen to the whole story once it was complete without having to borrow all the discs from my friend again.
Curious whether other folks like how it came out, found it frustrating, or what. But I’m glad I could revisit it now, so I can’t really gripe, now can I?
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That release format was downright silly. I don’t think I properly listened to it until it was released as a whole in the special box set.
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Finished The Day of the Doctor relisten! The book is as great as I remembered. The chapter numbering does not make much sense, though… It might be more interesting if I put the chapters on random. Wait, isn’t there a new 8DA audio that kind of does that?
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Not sure but there is the 7th Doctor audio You Are the Doctor which is designed at least to begin with, like a Choose Your Own Adventure.
And of course Creatures of Beauty which is all out of order and Flip Flop which works both ways round regardless of which disc you start with.
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Yeah, there’s a story in one of the Stranded boxsets (#3 I think) that does that. Plus Dark Gallifrey War Master Part 1, does it too.
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I’ve listened to You Are the Doctor but that one doesn’t work quite as a Choose Your Own Adventure. When I do a relisten on Creatures of Beauty, I’ll throw a dice to decide which ep to go. It’ll be fun!
I’ll have to listen to this one tonight, then. 
Haven’t noticed that… But then, I do struggle when it comes to Dark Gallifrey. There’s still no plot summary on Wiki 
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I’ve just finished The Quintessence, and it really is a cracker. True to the spirit of certain early Cybermen stories, they don’t actually feature much here - rather their machinations, and their effects, are pushed to the fore. I won’t give away spoilers, but there is good use made of the fact that Jo is not the same person she was back in the '70s. There are also some nice, sly continuity references that thankfully never get in the way of the tension.
“It’s like Wookie Hole down here!”
“Wookie what?”
I suppose if you wanted to, you could consider Episode 5 (a wonderfully ‘trippy’ experience in itself) as ‘filler’ – but it also serves as another example of the power of the antagonists, and how successfully they have manipulated Jo in particular.
The cast is stellar, and at times delivers some moving performances. Katy Manning plays Jo for all she’s worth. BF has often taken credit for breathing new life into former regulars, and Jo is pretty near the top of the list, I think.
A terrific tale.
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The thing I still don’t get about The Song of Megaptera is why the release is called that instead of The Song of the Space Whale. The working title IMO was better.
The story was good, though I thought it was let down a little by the colony of loonies living the life of Jonah. Would have preferred a different take on them.
Rounding out the morning, Solitaire. It’s great to hear India Fisher again, and this one’s a nifty little play. Only gripe hear is that right at the end the music swelled, and though Charley was coming through clearly, the Toymaker was drowned out.
Anyways, a good morning audios-wise.
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I enjoyed this too.
And I laughed out loud when the Wookie Hole reference came up.
I enjoyed episode 5 but, if I listen to it again, I’ll probably skip it.
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I’ve just finished Project: Destiny.
Recent listens have been the Once and Future and Sontarans vs Rutans sets and I think I got more enjoyment out of Project: Destiny than either of those sets.
A Death in the Family next. I’ve heard that it’s another corker!
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We have this little thread to help make sure you’ve gotten all the prerequisites for Death in the Family (or to refresh your memory if it’s been a while).
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Ace!
Many thanks 
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Finally, a middle-of-the-road episode for me, The Macros. The Philadelphia Experiment is great fodder for Doctor Who, so I really want to like it, but I would have preferred them to have gone in a different direction. The parallel world just wasn’t terribly interesting, the power-hungry ruler not nuanced…
I enjoyed a fair amount of this one, but it really feels like it could have something much better.
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Bought the new Jenny box because I needed something easy and fun. The first story was fun and perfect for my mood 4/5
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