Woodies Round-Up: One Rule

We're up to One Rule (the fourth release in Big Finish's Torchwood series) in our catch-up run down of external reviews:

Doctor Who TV ("one of those stories you can listen to all day and never grow bored.")
Red Rocket Rising ("Tracy-Ann Oberman’s performance is to be enjoyed...and worth at least two listens!")
Doctor Who Watch ("Despite the fact that it’s been a decade since her appearance in Series 2, [Tracy-Ann Oberman] plays the character so perfectly that it feels like no time has passed at all.")
Cult Box ("As well as being exciting, ‘One Rule’ is damn funny too")
Warped Factor ("I had trouble getting through this audio story, not because it doesn’t flow – it absolutely does – but because I was laughing so hard.")
Planet Mondas ("A rough night in a rough part of a beautiful City but a diamond performance from all involved and a polished script")
Blogtor Who ("This one is a proper treat and the tale is a real hoot, except when it isn’t.")
Sci-Fi Pulse ("Throughout, Oberman ate the scenery with all the condiments…obviously.")
Enigmania ("It allows for a lot of cool, funny and sometimes dark scenes that is just the sort of thing Torchwood fans loved watching on TV.")
Third Eye Cinema ("It’s not only atmospheric, well written and well acted, but it’s a hell of a lot of fun.")
The Grawlix Podcast ("I found myself thinking… “Yeah. I would listen to a Yvonne Harman series.”)
Starburst Magazine ("6/10: We found this hour of Torchwood to be pretty forgettable. Chuck it in the Rift, we say.")
Karl Bate ("One criticism, or maybe a commercial win, is it left me wanting more.")
Outpost Skaro ("May ultimately end up being more divisive than previous episodes")

From Youtube:

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Woodies Round-Up: Forgotten Lives

In an attempt to catch back up, here's a run down of external reviews for Big Finish's third Torchwood release - Forgotten Lives, featuring Eve Myles and Kai Owen.

Red Rocket Rising ("a wonderful story")
Cultbox (Awarded 4/5 - "makes good use of a small cast and it is great to hear some more mature voices")
Warped Factor ("a story that you’ll struggle to forget)
Doctor Who Watch ("another fantastic example from Big Finish of exactly what Torchwood does best")
Planet Mondas ("Definitely not one to forget. 9/10.")
Outpost Skaro ("If there’s any niggles, there is a bit of accent drift in the southerly direction in a couple of cases")
Blogtor Who ("The sound effects... were so convincing that I was reaching for my big coat and my sou’wester.")
Sci-Fi Pulse ("Eve Myles and Kai Owen demonstrated why they are one of the most underrated double acts in science fiction.")
Third Eye Cinema ("an oft quite witty script from Emma Reeves.")

From Youtube:

Tell us what you thought of the release in the comments section below.

Woodies Round-Up: Fall to Earth

External reviews for Big Finish's second Torchwood adventure, Fall to Earth:

Red Rocket Rising ("The story entertains... it does a good job of keeping the balls rolling")
Doctor Who TV ("It's perhaps more successful than The Conspiracy because the latter was realy exposition heavy")
CultBox (Awarded 5/5)
Blogtor Who (Awarded 10/10)
Planet Mondas (Awarded 10/10)
Sci-Fi Pulse ("A dry and witty two hander")
Third Eye Cinema ("David-Lloyd comes off as far less dispassionate and equivocal than John Barrowman did last month"

The post will be updated over the next month or so, as individuals and sites post their opinions.

Meanwhile, tell us what you thought of the adventure in the comments section below.

Woodies Round-Up: The Conspiracy

Big Finish's The Conspiracy has been out for over a week now. Here's a round up of reviews for the adventure. More will be added over the next few days/weeks.

Blogtor Who (8/10)
CultBox (4/5)
Doctor Who News - Review ("This is when everything changes for audio storytelling")
Doctor Who TV ("It is a story you can listen to over and over again")
Doctor Who Watch ("Overall it's easily a success at bringing that old Torchwood feeling back")
Grawlix Podcast (5/5)
Planet Mondas (6/10)
Red Rocket Rising ("Torchwood needs a bit more of the team chemistry to really shine")
Sci-Fi Bulletin (8/10)
Sci-Fi Pulse ("A tight, well acted set-up episode")
Starburst Magazine (5/10)

Meanwhile the Radio Times have published "5 Things we learned from The Conspiracy"

John Barrowman's Bum!

Ever since the BBC forced the Doctor Who production team to cut a scene in the 2005 episode "Bad Wolf" which would have featured the sight of Mr John Barrowman's bum, we've been promised that one day Captain Jack Harkness would find another reason to take his clothes off and show us his peach. Well, fanboys and fangirls (who probably spend too much time wishing this sort of thing into existence) tonight your wishes came true!

That episode really kicked things up a gear or two, huh? Personally I'm loving Lois Habiba, played by the very lovely Cush Jumbo (fantastic name, too!!). If she doesn't find her way into the show's regular cast next series, there's no justice in the world. She's beautiful, clever and has ten times more charisma than Freema Agyeman's Martha Jones ever did. I was watching her tonight, and thought to myself - "hang on, she has more character depth in two episodes than Toshiko Sato did after two whole series!" Another sign of the show's growing confidence and maturity.

Anyhoo, enough from me - what did you guys and gals at home think? Did you too love Cush, or was it John's tush that really had you going? Or Ianto's "Here He Comes in a Great Ruddy Tractor?" (Ben Foster fans will know straight away what I'm referring to there..!) Let us know in the comments section below, why don't you?!

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