Finished Colditz, going to listen to more FDA Series 13.
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Listened to the first part of The Sandman and what the hell am I listening to 
It’s interesting with a neat hook but it’s such a strange start!
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Okay part 2 was uh… very boring. Despite the weird and interesting premise. I’m not really feeling this one but I’ll finish the story for completionism’s sake.
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Listening to The Caged Assassin. It, is… Bonkers. Not sure where I fall on this.
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Okay, I had a lot of fun with The Caged Assassin. It’s definitely bonkers, but quite fun. How can you not have fun with wombats?
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And apparently Dante Gabriel Rossetti (a real-life poet and artist) did own wombats at this time.
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I really liked The Caged Assassin. Then again, I’m really partial to Matthew Sweet’s tone and humour. His stories always feel refreshingly different and unique.
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On my collection of The Novel Adaptations: currently All-Consuming Fire, then the two limited editions.
It’s really a pity that man wrote three of them.
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I realise this might not be a popular viewpoint, but I feel one of the biggest problems with The Sandman is lovely Colin Baker. Due to the nature of the story, The Doctor is not what he seems at times, and sadly the overacting on display to convey this change is too much - over-enunciating every word and syllable and shouting does not necessarily make you sound evil.
Other than that, I quite enjoy listening to this one. Ian Hogg is particularly good.
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Listened to The Doomsday Contract. Loved it, was just a really good and fun s17 style story.
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Finished The Sandman. Stellar premise that confused but gripped me part one, that gradually got more and more boring until by the end I just didn’t care even with the reveal or the showdown. At least next up for me is the classic that is Doctor Who and the Pirates, which I’ve not heard in many a year…
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In my Companion Chronicles run I have bumped into The Mahogany Murders, which is lovely. Jago & Litefoot is one of my pet series, so I’m excited to be where it started. The two lead actors have sumptuous voices and it’s pretty bloody wild that they were able to just drop right into the characters so quickly after over 25 years.
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I decided to begin listening to the Target novelisation audiobooks in story order, beginning with the 1981 Terrance Dicks novelisation of An Unearthly Child. The audiobook is something of an oddity because it’s an unofficial release read by Dwayne Bunney. It works very well, though, and it’s interesting to follow Dicks’ fairly faithful take on the story.
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If you want, you can make comments on the novelizations in the TV Club threads. Let us know if the novel is better, if it adds things, changes details, etc. And if you don’t want to that’s fine too.
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Good point! I’ll probably drop a comment or two if I find something interesting to point out.
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Re-listened to Dark Eyes 3.
This is the best of the Dark Eyes seasons!
Paul McGann
Alex McQueen
Seán Carlsen
Nicola Walker
Need I say more?
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Narvin in the torture chamber 
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Listening to Metamorphosis (the final story in FDA S13.2). It’s almost too short.
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Just finished Dark Eyes 1. It started off strong but I don’t remotely care for Straxus as a character so the ending was a cop out. Lots of technobabble that I didn’t care for.
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If I’m reading this page correctly, it sounds like “The Sandman” could be tagged with the Imposter Doctor trope!
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