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Doctor Who: Wish World
May. 24th, 2025 09:32 pmGoing into spoiler discussion for this one: ( spoilers )
May. 24th, 2025
Belatedly finishing listening to this first boxset, pairing the Eleventh Doctor (played by Jacob Dudman) with companion Valarie (played by Safiyya Ingar). This pair's stories slot in between TV's "The Snowmen" and "The Bells of St John", with the Doctor looking for Clara, but ends up travelling for a while with future cyberneticist Valarie, who also has super human strength, being part cyborg.
This pairing is great, and I'm looking forward to listening to the rest of their stories. The Eleventh Doctor feels written true to form. And yes, well acted, and sounding close enough. Valarie is a confident and brave companion, much better written than many of Steven Moffat's female companions. It's also a surprisingly emotive series of stories, really moving at times.
On the downside these audio boxsets are extremely expensive from Big Finish, even in download only form. I picked up a lower cost CD bundle before one of the boxsets went out of print on CD. You do get 3 stories in each of these boxes, and there are 4 boxes for the Eleventh Doctor and Valarie arc. So there's a lot of storytelling. And it's very imaginative and well done. But it's still a hefty investment. At least on CD there is something that can be sold on after, or in our case donated to charity for them to make a bit of money. But I would thoroughly recommend them as superb examples of Doctor Who audios.
This pairing is great, and I'm looking forward to listening to the rest of their stories. The Eleventh Doctor feels written true to form. And yes, well acted, and sounding close enough. Valarie is a confident and brave companion, much better written than many of Steven Moffat's female companions. It's also a surprisingly emotive series of stories, really moving at times.
On the downside these audio boxsets are extremely expensive from Big Finish, even in download only form. I picked up a lower cost CD bundle before one of the boxsets went out of print on CD. You do get 3 stories in each of these boxes, and there are 4 boxes for the Eleventh Doctor and Valarie arc. So there's a lot of storytelling. And it's very imaginative and well done. But it's still a hefty investment. At least on CD there is something that can be sold on after, or in our case donated to charity for them to make a bit of money. But I would thoroughly recommend them as superb examples of Doctor Who audios.