Doctor Who:
The Auntie Matter
By Jonathan Morris
The Doctor and Romana are
enjoying some time in 1920’s England as they wait for the TARDIS to return from
the wild goose chase The Doctor sent it on to confuse The Black Guardian. While Romana is bored and heads off into town
The Doctor continues working on his device for picking up alien tech. When the machine suddenly springs to life The
Doctor is off in search of the alien tech that was detected. While in town Romana comes across
Reggie. Reggie is a man who lives with
his Aunt. She is a very strange Aunt at
that as she is not even human. In fact
she wants Reggie to bring Romana back to the manor so she can take a look at
Romana. Meanwhile The Doctor with the
aid of his maid Mabel head off in search of the tech and come across some
strange stuff also. Like robotic butlers
and the true meaning of what the Aunt is really up to.
The second series of Tom Baker
Doctor Who adventures for Big Finish starts with The Auntie Matter and this
time he is accompanied by Romana played by the late Mary Tamm. It was sad to listen to to this story and the
rest of the ones in the series as this was one of the last things she did
before she died last summer. She was
really good as Romana in The Auntie Matter and it seemed like she was never
away from the show for so long. It was
like listening to a story in season 16 with her as Romana again.
The overall story was
ok. It was nothing special to write home
about. At times I was enjoying the story
as Tom Baker was superb as always as the Fourth Doctor but at times I just
couldn’t really get into what was happening. It seemed to be a tad too silly
and the character of Reggie was pretty lame and annoying same with Mabel. I did like the aspect of the Aunt cheating
death by stealing female bodies but found the solution to defeating her tad too
easy. But in all a story that for the most part is
entertaining due to the great performances from Tom Baker and Mary Tamm that
makes up for the subpar story.
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