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A review by kmccubbin
Doctor Who: Arrangements for War by Paul Sutton, Gabriel Woolf, Colin Baker, Maggie Stables
4.0
This might be the first Big Finish story that actually brought me to tears... twice!
Doctor, the Sixth, and Evelyn Smyth are the most reliable Doctor/Companion team in the series. There is a maturity in their relationship that truly transcends Doctor Who as a whole and I treasure it.
In some ways this story is clever, but workmanlike, and would be a fine, though not exceptional, piece for any other TARDIS team, but Colin Baker and Maggie Stables invest it with some real marrow as the story becomes far more about their mortality and their relationship than it does about these people they are trying to save.
I knock one star for Gary Russell again trying to spear his white whale of large scale action sequences in audio and again missing. It just doesn't work and a bit of the latter two episodes could've used less of it.
But the ending is as transcendent as anything in "Spare Parts", "The Holy Terror" or "Chimes of Midnight." And it had me in tears.
Doctor, the Sixth, and Evelyn Smyth are the most reliable Doctor/Companion team in the series. There is a maturity in their relationship that truly transcends Doctor Who as a whole and I treasure it.
In some ways this story is clever, but workmanlike, and would be a fine, though not exceptional, piece for any other TARDIS team, but Colin Baker and Maggie Stables invest it with some real marrow as the story becomes far more about their mortality and their relationship than it does about these people they are trying to save.
I knock one star for Gary Russell again trying to spear his white whale of large scale action sequences in audio and again missing. It just doesn't work and a bit of the latter two episodes could've used less of it.
But the ending is as transcendent as anything in "Spare Parts", "The Holy Terror" or "Chimes of Midnight." And it had me in tears.