wanderlustlover's review against another edition
3.0
I listened to the first season and half of The Eight Doctor & Lucie Miller incredibly close together and back to back, so all of them are going to end up with the same review for the moment while I'm fixing up my forgotten rec's and clearing out my Currently Reading Folder (which shouldn't be 40+ books, it should be somewhere relatively close to right under ten).
I have loved meeting Eight, and his resigned but inspirational way of being. I love Lucy's moxy, and her mouth. Her mouth may be the best thing on the planet. Even though I know the episodes are roughly the same length as tv episodes, from single one hours to double-extended two hours, somehow they end up feeling like bite-size, leaving me wanting just a little more from every single one.
I have loved meeting Eight, and his resigned but inspirational way of being. I love Lucy's moxy, and her mouth. Her mouth may be the best thing on the planet. Even though I know the episodes are roughly the same length as tv episodes, from single one hours to double-extended two hours, somehow they end up feeling like bite-size, leaving me wanting just a little more from every single one.
khayes0525's review against another edition
5.0
I listened to this series with Lucie Miller before listening to Eight's adventures with Charley, and I hate to say it...but this series was so good it made McGann's original run as Eight worse. That said, Blood of the Daleks is an excellent first story in an excellent run of stories. I absolutely recommend it.
bloodonthetracks's review against another edition
4.0
An intriguing start to this Dalek story. Personally, the best part of the episode was the dynamic between the Doctor and Lucie; I'm really looking forward to seeing how their friendship grows.
bahbadook's review
4.0
So, my first Doctor Who audiobook. Didn't start off with a Doctor I was familiar with but I did start off with an enemy I was familiar with. The Daleks at one point call the Doctor a "terrorist" of the Daleks and I smiled when I heard that because obviously terrorist becomes predator later. Makes sense.
It was a pretty decent place to start and there are enough throwbacks to Genesis of the Daleks (which I have seen and I love that storyline) that despite the fact that this was audio, I was able to keep track of what was happening.
The Doctor has a companion show up in the TARDIS a la Donna Noble and the companion proceeds to grump at the Doctor a la Ian Chesterton for landing her on an alien planet that doesn't even have two suns. They promptly get separated and what proceeds is the uncovering of what exactly happened and what is currently happening and then Daleks get tossed into the mix. This is all a very standard Doctor Who formula.
My favorite part about this is that there is an actual tin foil hat guy. Also, dramatized audiobooks are bomb diggity.
What will the Doctor do next? How will he solve the very large Dalek shaped problem?
It was a pretty decent place to start and there are enough throwbacks to Genesis of the Daleks (which I have seen and I love that storyline) that despite the fact that this was audio, I was able to keep track of what was happening.
The Doctor has a companion show up in the TARDIS a la Donna Noble and the companion proceeds to grump at the Doctor a la Ian Chesterton for landing her on an alien planet that doesn't even have two suns. They promptly get separated and what proceeds is the uncovering of what exactly happened and what is currently happening and then Daleks get tossed into the mix. This is all a very standard Doctor Who formula.
My favorite part about this is that there is an actual tin foil hat guy. Also, dramatized audiobooks are bomb diggity.
What will the Doctor do next? How will he solve the very large Dalek shaped problem?
nwhyte's review
a rather good double feature introducing new companion Lucie and bringing her and the Doctor to a planet under threat from natural disaster but seeking help from, of all people, the Daleks. There are some neat developments of the history and ideology of the Daleks: riffs on two of the best Dalek stories (Power and Genesis), and then the question of how the Daleks would react to a secondary creation. The politics of the human colony is well thought out too.[return][return]I was not so sure about Lucie Miller. This is not a criticism of Sheridan Smith's portrayal - as a northern lass reacting to the Eighth Doctor's airs, she is rather good and builds up a memorable presence very quickly. But her back story is much less credible: snatched from (where?) by the Time Lords, and then the Doctor wilfully failing to interrogate her fully. This story came out at the same time as The Runaway Bride, which also had a companion mysteriously manifesting in the Tardis, but dealt with that rather better, I thought.[return][return]Good stuff from Anita Dobson as the civilian leader and Hayley Attwell (who was the Duchess's husband's lover in The Duchess); also Kenneth Cranham was new to me, and I thought must be Bill Oddie at first, though a glance at the credits put me right.
chicafrom3's review
adventurous
funny
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
The Eighth Doctor meets Lucie Miller.
sshabein's review
4.0
A touch different because it's for BBC radio and not just a regular Big Finish release. Interesting premise, and Lucie Miller has Donna levels of sass.
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