Review by Jacob Licklider
It was an interesting announcement that not only was Jacob Dudman stepping away from playing the Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors, but also was being given four, three-episode box sets for the Eleventh Doctor with a new companion and essentially a fourth series set between The Snowmen and The Bells of St. John as the Doctor is searching for Clara Oswald to find out just what her deal is. The premise of this series essentially comes from a moment of disconnect between the two episodes, The Bells of St. John opening with the Doctor being a hermit essentially waiting for Clara to call him but the point of The Snowmen is reinforcing the idea that the Doctor shouldn’t be alone. Of course, it should be noted that adding of extra stories from Big Finish Productions do not negate issues with television episodes despite this being designed to address those issues as Big Finish Productions, while wonderful, are written after the fact separate from whatever the showrunners of Doctor Who are intending. The first of the four sets for this series of The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles is Geronimo!, with behind the scenes interviews implying that a two week period in May 2022 was used to record this and the three future sets which are set to be released between now and 2024. Geronimo! and the second installment, All of Time and Space, indicate that while these sets have a story arc, the arc of the series of sets doesn’t have an umbrella title and the individual titles are coming across as just a touch on the generic side. That being said, I don’t really know what I’d title this set to make it stand out outside of the Eleventh Doctor’s catchphrase.
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