10 Big Finish Doctor Who Moments We Wish We Saw On-Screen
3. Rise And Fall Of The Eminence
Arguably another of Big Finish's top original villains, the Eminence was a gaseous entity who fought against several incarnations of the Doctor. After first popping up against the Fourth and Sixth Doctors, the Eminence story comes full to a head in the Eighth Doctor 'Dark Eyes' series.
The story of this enemy feels like it has a true pay off. First meeting them as established threats in ‘Destroy the Infinite’ (Fourth Doctor story) and ‘The Seeds of War’ (Sixth Doctor story), you learn how potentially great a threat the Eminence are. So, by ‘Dark Eyes’, where across the second, third and fourth release, you see their rise and fall. The building of these villains is how story telling should be done, it really builds up what could otherwise simply be a ‘villain of the week’.
What makes them so compelling to be seen on screen is how visually menacing they could be, as well as the scale of the story they are involved in. This moment isn't a specific story moment but more general, to see the Eminence consume their enemies and transform them into their Infinite Warriors to fight in their war.