Rating: 10/10
As someone who hasnt't watched the 1996 TV Movie or listened to the Big Finish audios, this was the my first time with Paul McGann's 8th Doctor. And I really enjoyed it. Paul McGann plays the 8th Doctor to such a high standard that he is possibly my favourite of them. He is instantly the Doctor, and his final scene (chronologically, the 8th Doctor is still on Big Finish and may return in the future, but this is the chronological end of the character) is fantastic, and I can only imagine what a Big Finish fan might have been thinking when he names all his companions, only one of which had been seen before on screen, Grace in the TV Movie. His final realisation he can't escape the war sets up the 50th Anniversary brilliantly, as does the ending. And the opening on the spaceship, Time Lord/War reveal and Kass's fate are brilliant and tragic.
A Mini Episode to set up John Hurt's Doctor for the 50th Anniversary Special had no reason to be this good, but it was, and I am very hapoy about that.
A Mini Episode to set up John Hurt's Doctor for the 50th Anniversary Special had no reason to be this good, but it was, and I am very hapoy about that.