Goodness knows why Trevor Baxendale chose to bring that apathy to Big Finish and why Gary Russell let him, especially considering the last time the eighth Doctor suffered amnesia in the Big Finish range (oh yeah it’s a regular occurrence dont’cha know?) was Minuet in Hell, one of the least popular stories in the range. They managed to get around that in The Gallifrey Chronicles but at the same time amnesia had become a byword for everything that was tired and clichéd in the range. However I am not blind to the fact that the EDA readership grew very tired of the Doctor not getting his memories back and refusing to push to find out what catastrophic event pushed him over the edge. Trevor Baxendale himself wrote a wonderful pair of stories, Eater of Wasps and The Deadstone Memorial for the amnesiac eighth Doctor. For me the latter half of the EDAs is the finest run of Doctor Who novels and my personal favourite run of stories for any version of the eighth Doctor. The eighth Doctor is suffering from amnesia! Are they mad? Something Inside was released in 2006, which was just after BBC Books EDA range had come to an end. Stories like Something Inside feel like time fillers until this team disbands and two of the three move on to find another Doctor and companion and unleash a new lease of life for their characters. C’rizz still doesn’t quite fit in, Charley has had her day as far as the eighth Doctor is concerned (as I’ve pointed out many moons ago that was around Zagreus) and the Doctor himself needs a new direction which Lucie gave him. If a story underwhelms they make no impression whatsoever (Creed of the Kromon, The Twilight Kingdom, Scaredy Cat) and it doesn’t help that I have been reviewing the eighth Doctor and Lucie adventures at the same time – a relationship where both characters compliment each other. YOU ARE NOW INSIDE THE CUBEīreathless Romantic: To be fair to the team of the eighth Doctor, Charley and C’rizz have had a run of stories they have had haven’t been bad at all (I personally rated their run 2, 10, 2, 8, 8, 8, 7, 8, 2, 8, 8 which only leaves three under par stories and otherwise a pretty consistently strong run of stories) but I find that as a team they distract from the qualities of the stories. PSYCHIC POWERS WILL BE FORCIBLY REMOVED (MENTAL SURGERY IS COMPULSORY)ĬAUTION. DO NOT ATTEMPT TELEPORTATION UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
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