Agens of Chaos: Eye of Harmony

"The Daleks' victory will be absolute."

Writer: Ken Bentley

Format: Audio

Released: 6th October 2016

Series: War Doctor Adventures 3.03

Featuring: War Doctor

Synopsis 

In the aftermath of events on Rovidia, the Dalek Time Strategist is presented with a unique opportunity to strike a lethal blow to the heart of Gallifrey. A devastating power is set to be unleashed, and with agents in place ready to do the bidding of the Dalek Time Strategist, the future of the Time War could turn in an instant.

Trapped inside a critically-damaged Battle-TARDIS, hopelessly adrift in the Time Vortex, the War Doctor and his allies have a final desperate fight on their hands...

Verdict 

Eye of Harmony was a great audio adventure and concluded the Agents of Chaos boxset in a very good way. This third set of stories to feature the War Doctor has been absolutely sublime and that was mostly down to the first two audios but this one wasn't at all bad and despite scoring a little less, it still finished things very nicely. It started where The Eternity Cage finished with the staggeringly good cliffhanger of Heleyna quite literally kicking the Doctor out of the Battle TARDIS and into the deep depths of space. She was a Gallifreyan working for the Daleks and he was simply in the way of her objective. Cardinal Ollistra was pivotal to that as we would later learn but she did end up making a pretty decent team with Kalan who was still hanging around after the events on Rovidia. They managed to gain the upper hand on Heleyna long enough for Ollistra to use a TARDIS version of a lifeboat to save the Doctor from falling to his death. I quite liked how he wasn't very complimentary about being saved but would soon and up doing the saving himself. I've liked how this boxset has focused on the Dalek Time Strategist being the authority figure amongst the Daleks and their focus has been on using time as a weapon to try and get the upper hand in the Time War. We saw them try to alter Earth's history in The Shadow Vortex and now we saw them execute a plan to destroy the Eye of Harmony itself! Even for the Daleks and even for the Time War, that was quite the audacious plan! Their method of locking in to a star chamber within a TARDIS was intriguing and Heleyna had gone to some means of getting the plan ready. As with pretty much everybody who believes they can trust the Daleks, she was soon let down but the Doctor had a little bit of a helping hand in that. The so called primary weapon of the Daleks being dark matter explosives was brilliant and they literally were going to attack the Eye of Harmony. I loved how the Gallifreyan power source was looked upon with awe by Heleyna and Ollistra and I also found the Daleks referring to it as being nowhere and everywhere excellent. It's a difficult concept to grasp but I liked that the Doctor admitted the way in which they harness the power was a little like cheating. Heleyna was clearly at least a little disturbed to be on the side of the Daleks but I found her motive somewhat distressing. She was doing all of this to bring her grandfather back to life. Ollistra tried telling her that destroying the Eye of Harmony would indeed prevent the Time War from starting which she intended, but would also mean that the Time Lords were never created and her grandfather never born. But that somehow didn't seem to matter to her which was deeply strange. Once the Doctor had assisted in the Dalek defeat, much to the despair of the Dalek Time Strategist who had foreseen the Eye of Harmony's demise, the death of Kalan was a very emotion way to finish and it was such a sad way for him to die. He was trying to prevent Heleyna, the women who had caused all the trouble, not to just accept her fate and die. But in trying to save a women who had accepted death, he paid with his life and that provoked some strong words out of the Doctor. He didn't call himself that anymore but he believed that he was somewhat responsible for the origins of the Time War after his countless previous battles and he was then blaming himself for the death and misery that came with it. I thought that was unfair but the words were very strong and it was quite a sad way to end. However, this is war and the landscape of Doctor Who as we know it is very different during this period. Overall though, a very good way to finish!

Rating: 8/10