Sweet Salvation

Ravenous 1.4

Released: 10 April 2018

Listened: 12/21/21

And we continue into the slam-bang ending, also written by Matt Fitton. The time-jump from the last story is resolved, and everybody decamps to Colony 23, where the Eleven has a “take over the world” plan going that involves feeding the population snacks created by the Kandyman with a psycho-active ingredient, and he’ll need a powerful psychic to kick it all off, which is where a bit character from the last story comes in. The slam-bang part is a psychic duel between the Doctor and the Eleven, which is tough to do on TV, perhaps slightly easier on audio, but it’s still a fairly tough thing to imagine. There’s some friction from the Kandyman, who believes (correctly) that the Eleven wants to replace him with Helen, and Helen couldn’t care less. This makes the Kandyman look kind of pathetic and needy, which is hardly the big comeback returning villains normally get, but we won’t be seeing him again. And Liv’s plot involves hanging out with a criminal from the asylum and doing a lot of punching. I notice that Liv tends to be more short-tempered and prone to physical violence when Matt Fitton writes her. I hope you don’t want any more information about the Ravenous, because you won’t find it here. It seems odd to get through the entire first box of a quartet without the title villains ever showing up, and barely even mentioned. If you look at it as “Eighth Doctor Adventures, series 3” (or 7, or whatever you like), it makes somewhat more sense to have this many unconnected stories before the Ravenous actually show up. But at the time, that caused some frustration.