Spore, the Eight Doctor story in the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary series, is ... well, it's a perfectly passable story. The writing is decent, the plot okay, there's some nice bits about Gallifreyan history, the brand new supporting character created by Scarrow (considering Eight rather lacks TV canon travel companions, making up a new stand-in was quite okay by me) wasn't particularly remarkable or memorable but neither was she awful.
Three stars because, once again, I just cannot find a short story satisfying enough - it wasn't a bad effort but I didn't really connect with it on any level at all.