nwhyte's review against another edition
"Hornet's Nest 1: The Stuff of Nightmares, by Paul Magrs, brings back the Fourth Doctor in alliance with ex-Captain Mike Yates (who was actually a Third Doctor companion, but never mind), inhabiting a peculiar country house with even more peculiar stuffed animals. I've seen a couple of reviews commenting that it has a lot more talking-book style narration by Yates and the Doctor, and hence much less actual dialogue, than we are used to from Big Finish; myself, I felt that this was being honest to an earlier style of doing things, namely that of Doctor Who and the Pescatons, the first ever Doctor Who audio from the. 1970s; except that The Hornet's Nest, so far, is much much better. And I think it will certainly attract those who enjoy nostalgia for the glory days of Hinchcliffe and Holmes / Letts and Dicks, but are less interested in obtaining new adventures from the John Nathan-Turner era Doctors (let alone Paul McGann). Amazon tells me that the second CD is already winging its way to me; can't wait!"
simsbrarian's review against another edition
2.0
I'm torn. This was fun to hear performed so well by Tom Baker and Richard Franklin (as Mike Yates) but the story is slow and, until nearly the end of the Classic Who style of cliff-hanger ending, a bit dull. It's a Night at the Museum meets an alien hive-mind creature intent on taking over the world (and then the Doctor!) for its flesh and warmth by using discarded museum stuffed animals as their golem-soldiers. Since much of hte story is just the Doctor telling Mike Yates about what has happened to this point it is a lot of "And then I did that...and then this happened..." and not as exciting as the moments which happen in-scene. Not a great start to the 5-book series; unsure if I'm enthused enough to continue.
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