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bookwormben's review
5.0
Why do I love Second Doctor stories so much? I understand how some may see this as "nothing special", because it is mostly your everyday base-under-seige story.
But maybe I simply loved hearing Deborah Watling's narration because it truly does capture the spirit and determination of a companion looking back on her adventures in space in time. Give this one a try. If you like it, great! If not, oh well...at least it was only an hour of your time.
But maybe I simply loved hearing Deborah Watling's narration because it truly does capture the spirit and determination of a companion looking back on her adventures in space in time. Give this one a try. If you like it, great! If not, oh well...at least it was only an hour of your time.
nwhyte's review
The Darkening Eye is a prequel to last year's Seventh Doctor audio, The Death Collectors, which introduced us listeners to the Dar Traders, an alien race who are the eponymous collectors. Here we get the full early Fifth Doctor crew encountering them along with an undead assassin; none of it really made sense, to be honest, people keep getting stabbed and the ending of the framing narrative (Nyssa reminiscing to a patient on Terminus) didn't make a lot of sense.[return][return]But it's really lifted by Sarah Sutton as Nyssa, doing a pretty good take of Davison's Doctor, Janet Fielding's Tegan and even Matthew Waterhouse's Adric, as well as almost all the other characters. There are a satifying number of references back to Season 17 - dwarf star alloy, Traken, dimensional problems, etc. The plot is no worse than several of the TV stories she appeared in (though I still don't get the Dar Traders).
Merged review:
It is a delightful homage to Season Five, with elements from almost all of the Victoria stories (and elsewhere from the Second Doctor's time) shaken together to form a very entertaining mixture. I think you could use this as a good entry point to the whole Companion Chronicles for a Who fan otherwise unfamiliar with the audios.
Merged review:
It is a delightful homage to Season Five, with elements from almost all of the Victoria stories (and elsewhere from the Second Doctor's time) shaken together to form a very entertaining mixture. I think you could use this as a good entry point to the whole Companion Chronicles for a Who fan otherwise unfamiliar with the audios.
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