11.10 - The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos

So, here we are. We’ll be back tomorrow with a very special guest for Resolution but, since that’s a New Year Special, this is our final Doctor Who episode proper. As such, we did finally record at Joe’s then-flat, thus finally adding one more location that we’ve recorded the show in, and for old times’ sake, we even dug out the digital recorder we relied on for years which, for reasons unknown, decided to give us a real low quality recording the kind of which you might hear on a much worse podcast. We literally can’t explain why that happened so we hope the results don’t trouble you too much. Anyway, enough of that. It’s The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos, the kind of title that sounds like a sci-fi parody and features a returning villain. There!s usually a sense of diminishing returns when this happens and it’s the case here too, but with the unfortunate truth being that this villain wasn’t any good the first time. In fact, the best idea in this whole episode has already appeared in Doctor Who back in 1978. It’s inauspicious to say the least, but hey, why not throw caution to the wind and join us anyway?