I listened to the first season and half of The Eight Doctor & Lucie Miller incredibly close together and back to back, so all of them are going to end up with the same review for the moment while I'm fixing up my forgotten rec's and clearing out my Currently Reading Folder (which shouldn't be 40 books, it should be somewhere relatively close to right under ten).

I have loved meeting Eight, and his resigned but inspirational way of being. I love Lucy's moxy, and her mouth. Her mouth may be the best thing on the planet. Even though I know the episodes are roughly the same length as tv episodes, from single one hours to double-extended two hours, somehow they end up feeling like bite-size, leaving me wanting just a little more from every single one. ( )

This was a delightful little audio snack to keep me company while I knitted. It’s tightly plotted and controlled with a nice cast of characters. The Doctor and Lucie make an amusing combo: she’s super snarky, he’s very long-suffering. And I liked that this was set somewhat close to home (on Phobos, one of the moons of Mars). I decided to listen to this now entirely because the title popped into my head when I was looking for something to listen to, and I’m glad I followed that impulse. ( )

On Phobos, the Doctor and Lucie find themselves in a leisure resort on the eponymous Martian moon, where there are peculiar things afoot. It turns out to be a bit of a mess of aliens, robots and conspiring humans, with Big Name Actors such as Nerys Hughes and Timothy West. It gets unpacked more or less convincingly, with a couple of lucky escapes and fortunate coincidences. Wikipedia sees links with The Fearmonger and The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit; it reminded me more of The Leisure Hive. ( )