Tag: Dan Starkey

Doctor Who: Terror of the Sontarans

by Derelict Space Sheep on October 3, 2018 in 42 Word Reviews

Doctor Who: Terror of the Sontarans

by John Dorney & Dan Starkey (Big Finish, 2015)

The Seventh Doctor is in full-on affability mode, drained of all intensity; the Sontarans are demented à la Strax; and one of the minor characters is channelling his inner Lord Flashheart. A specious comedy where only Bonnie Langford takes her role seriously.

Doctor Who: Rhythm of Destruction

by Derelict Space Sheep on September 11, 2018 in 42 Word Reviews

Doctor Who: Rhythm of Destruction

by Darren Jones; audiobook read by Dan Starkey (BBC, 2018)

The character of Peter Capaldi’s Doctor is just about right—and is well conveyed by Dan Starkey—but the writing is plain at best and the story is hackneyed; it might well have come about in extemporised response to the cover art.