Showing posts with label Unbound. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Unbound. Show all posts

Tuesday, 4 May 2010

Doctor Who Unbound - Sympathy for the Devil - Review

David Warner as the Doctor, Nicholas Courtney as the Brig, Sam Kisgart as the sinister Ke Le and David Tennant cursing himself blind. What more could you ask for?

After kicking off the series with a big thematic story and a grand premise of immediately obvious implication, the second tale in the fascinating Unbound range steps things down to a much subtler tone. It takes a far less grandiose question - What if the Doctor had never joined UNIT?

Friday, 30 April 2010

Doctor Who Unbound - Auld Mortality - Review

The Unbound series is one of Big Finish's most creative ideas, definitely a worthwhile experiment. It's to their credit they didn't just produce Doctor Who with new actors, and really dug into the 'What if' possibility vibe. So this is really as apt a first episode as could possibly have been produced - Taking a really big, immediately grasped 'What If' - What if the Doctor had never left Gallifrey - and spinning a tale about stories, possibilities, imagination and adventure.