Doctor Who: Travel in Hope
- Publication: SFX
- Date: issue 369 (September 2023)
- Author: Will Salmon
- Page: 111
- Language: English
★★★★☆
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Publisher Big Finish
Did you enjoy the Jodie Whittaker episode "Kerblam!", but like the ending was a let down? "Below There", the first story in the latest Ninth Doctor set, offers a more convincing take down of sci-fi ultra-capitalism, as Christopher Eccleston's Doctor encounters a worker in deep space. Initially a two-hander, Lauren Mooney and Stewart Pringle's script gives us some playful banter between the Doctor and Vyx (Kelly Adams) before revealing a truly dark secret. Excellent stuff.
"The Butler Did It" is, as you might expect, a whodunnit, as the Doctor investigates the poisoning of an old friend at an intergalactic port. These sets have leaned into making Eccleston's Doctor chattier, something that this story dials all the way up to "annoying" - as one character points out. It's breezy enough, but the central mystery never quite grabs you, making this the slightest of the three stories.
"The Ninth Doctor meets Alpha Centauri" may sound like Big Finish have been sticking pins in random pages of The Doctor Who Programme Guide, but "Run" has a compelling idea at its heart, with the Doctor encouraging the Pertwee-era alien hermaphrodite to run in a political race against a populist demagogue.
If you can get on with the daft voices then this is a funny story with an earnest point.
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