![]() It’s a common feature of multi-doctor stories, established as far back as The Three Doctors, that the older actor takes on such status, irregardless of him technically being the younger and less experienced version of the character. Despite this the Tenth Doctor is playing catchup slightly, while the Fifth takes on a sense of seniority both in knowledge and status. They recognise each other immediately, which saves a lot of narrative faff, and feels like a tacit acknowledgement of Time Crash. Once the two Doctors meet up, the fun really starts. The Cybermen used for this story are the versions previously featured in the Invasion, and while this may seem a bit of a random choice (indeed David Richardson states in the accompanying interviews it was primarily motivated out of nostalgia) there is a certain neatness to the fact that both that story, and this, feature them skulking in a subterranean environment: the sewers of London and the catacombs of Paris, respectively. It’s a bit of a Big Finish trope to have the Doctor talking to themself but Tennant performs it with an enlivening energy, and even now he’s been back on audio for five years there’s still a joy to getting to hear him embrace the medium and Big Finish.Īfter his first encounter with the Cybermen, the Fifth Doctor is trapped in stasis, allowing for the Tenth Doctor to come along and rescue him in the future - a neat way of joining the two narratives. Meanwhile the Tenth Doctor spends most of his time in the occupied Paris of 1944 talking to himself, lampshaded by a throwaway “Who am I talking to?” line. Mark Gatiss is an elderly French gentleman, and Shelley Conn is an American accented Time Agent that the Doctor wastes no time in becoming acquainted with. Prior to the two Doctors meeting, Davison seems to take the bulk of the material, and it’s through him we meet the majority of the guest stars. Both are aiming for different places and times than where they end up, but arrive in Paris, albeit some 135 years apart. The narrative starts as you might anticipate, introducing the two incarnations of the Doctor separately. This is the second release from the Out of Time range, which follows a successful formula of pairing the Tenth Doctor with an incarnation from the classic series, and pitting them against an iconic adversary. David Tennant and father-in-law Peter Davison perform together in a timey-wimey adventure as Cybermen come out of the Catacombs to invade Paris. More than a decade on from Time Crash, the Fifth and Tenth Doctors reunite, and this time it’s a family affair. ❉ Lightning strikes twice for fans of Davison and Tennant in this Time-Crash reunion.
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