For those of us that have listened to ‘The Crystal of Cantus’, I don’t think this choice required much elaboration.
All I’ll say is that the explanation for what Cybermats are is actually nightmarish and genuinely horrifying. It always amazing how much BigFinish let Lidster push the boundaries in terms of how sick and twisted he can make some of his stories (that’s not a complaint by any means - he’s one of my favourite BigFinish writers).
What are your picks for the darkest Cyberman audio?
I know everyone is going to say Spare Parts, but honestly you’re right. Cantus was so horrifying to me that I had to go for a walk after the first time I listened to it 
I can’t honestly think of any others I would call particularly ‘dark’, but then I’m not a big cyberman fan so most of their stories sort of pass me by without much effect
It isn’t a Cybermen story TECHNICALLY
but The Sky Man from the first series of The War Master is so bleak and they’re basically Cybermen by the end.
The Reaping comes across in the beginning as being a bit on the casual side, until it isn’t. It turned out to be incredibly F-ed up as far as Peri’s characterization is concerned (it is a good audio though).
Id probably say Dark Water/ Death in Heaven.
Fym “please don’t cremate me”
Agreed for TV, but it’s asking about audio
Mb lol. I haven’t heard any so far which have introduced anything new or interesting about them.
Wow, that is surprisingly dark from Big Finish. Does it work? (The story, not the scheme.)
Oh, yes. It’s a 5/5 story for me, and probably my favourite story from BF. In my opinion, it is a perfect story. And its only an hour long.
I keep meaning to getting round to 11DC, heard good things about this one especially
I will keep banging on about Eleven & Valarie until the cows come home. It is actively going into my Eleven TV run when my next rewatch happens. It’s a great season of the show. I think it’s the most consistently good thing BF have released.
I need them to do a sale sometime soon! You guys have really persuaded me I need to listen to them
There were rumours going round that - because Safiyya Ingar still wants to make more Valarie stories - BigFinish could potentially resurrect the Companion Chronicles for the modern era.
Hope the rumours are true, because it’s likely the only way we’ll get more 11 & Val outings and 11, Amy & Rory ones (with Darvill being well on board with the company).
That would make me really happy. I hope it happens, but if not, we have a perfect series and a short trip. I don’t know what Matt Smiths take is on doing BF stuff, but it would be great to get them together to do some audio. But I do worry that the chemistry will be off compared to Dudman and Ingar.
So I actually had the pleasure of meeting Arthur Darvill at a recent convention and got him to sign my copy of ‘The Lone Centurion’.
I mentioned how it would be great if himself, Matt and Karen got the band back together for some audio adventures and he responded with;
“Matt probably wont ever do these. It’s not his thing.”
So who knows.
With House of the Dragon taking off, it’s very unlikely Big Finish can even afford him at this point in his career.
It’s a shame but, eh well, never say never. Tom Baker has been prolific after years of saying no.
True, though compared to someone like Tennant, a lot of Smith’s post Doctor Who series and films have basically curled up and died.
Anyone remember that atrocious Terminator film he did?
Don’t worry, I don’t think anyone does.
Now, controversial opinion here, I genuinely think Tom Baker is one of the weakest performers - if we’re just looking at the BigFinish releases!
I feel like the directors indulge him far too much when they really need someone who can reel him in so we actually get some coherent stories.
If you want a perfect example of this;
Here you go! The performance is just a real crock of [REDACTED]!
