BF X: The Five Companions

[Richard Brinck-Johnsen]

The Five Companions is this years subscriber bonus story available free alongside subscriptions including the December 2011 release Army of Death.

The trailer can be heard here

[Rob McCow]

Five companions, Sontarans, Daleks... Sounds like the recipe for 'Ultimate' Shepherd's Pie, which has over one million ingredients.

[Simon R]

I hope it's better than The Four Doctors which I tried and failed to get through the other day.

[P-Bal]

I'm waiting for "The Seven Guest Stars".

[Richard Brinck-Johnsen]

I hope it's better than The Four Doctors which I tried and failed to get through the other day.

Without giving anything away it's worth persevering with that one for the ending.

Next year: The Eight Returning Monsters

[Rob McCow]

This year's Christmas release: A Partridge In A Pear Tree.

[brandynigma]

This year's Christmas release: A Partridge In A Pear Tree.

A Dodo in a Deciduous Forest?

[Antony Cox]

This year's Christmas release: A Partridge In A Pear Tree.

A-HAAA!

[brandynigma]

Annnnnnd- it's out!

It's also surprisingly good. I would happily hear any of the sixties companions - as their older selves - back again in a full adventure or even trilogy with a later Doctor.

[Simon R]

We thought it was a bit blah. It didn't really make full use of the Doctor meeting his long lost friends. There was little emotional content when it felt like there should have been. I'm not really sure what it was about as it didn't really hold my attention alas.

[Richard Brinck-Johnsen]

It's great fun but it does feel like it finishes before it's got going in terms of the Doctor dealing with the emotional fallout of being reunited with so many old friends. I'd say 4/5.

[Si Hunt]

It's a bit of a mess, I'm afraid. It's not so much that there's not enough plot, it's just confused. People wander around and bump into the Doctor, each time spouting the kind of continuity-laden background that fan fiction wouldn't touch. Perhaps this would have been ok if the pace had been that of a character item, but it seems to want to be action packed as well, which means Sontarans and Daleks dashing around at the same time which perhaps it could have done without.

Maybe bringing one of these companions back at a time, and then reuniting everyone in a final story, would have worked better?

Si.