I'm baffled by the critism of The Hornet's Nest from some online commentators. Of course it's not like a Big Finish audio play, this is because it isn't a Big Finish audio play. Of course it's not like a Fourth Doctor television story, but it isn't a television story. I admit that Tom Baker is playing Tom Baker even more obviously than he did on screen in the 1970s; it's also true that this is the Doctor presented as earthbound paranormal investigator rather than traveller through all of space and time; but it seems to me entirely within the range of the Doctor we know (especially as supplemented by Baker's performance of himself as late). It's not blow-me-away brilliant, but very entertaining. ( )