Sarah-Jane - Death of the Doctor

[daibhidc]

Wow.

First spoiler: It turns out he's not really dead after all.

Jo Jones was brilliant. I never liked her portrayal Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Genocide, so the fact this doesn't bother me in the slightest. Likewise the news that Liz didn't die in 2003, as seen in the New Adventures novel Eternity Weeps was welcome (although the fact she's trapped on the Moon may be a nod to that book.)

(There was a tendency in the novels to suggest that many of the companions ended up "damaged" somehow after the Doctor left them. The idea that they instead dedicated themselves to making the world a better place is much more palatable.)

RTD also writes a darn good Eleventh Doctor, with all his character tics in place (and I only realised that afterwards, there wasn't a point where I thought he was ticking them off a list ... Well, maybe "Come along, Smith!", but it was so funny I let it pass.)

The big continuity question: Can the Doctor now regenerate 507 times, or did he just name a random number to shut Clyde up?

Minor nitpick: the scene in "The End of Time" where the Doctor is ravaged with deadly energy but it's not actually having any effect on him just yet was pushing credibility at the time - now we're being told it was actually longer, and we just saw the highlights?

Bonus points to RTD for actually making the continual flashbacks we get in these stories actually part of the story...

Comments

[rhiannon-s.livejournal.com]

I was disappointed that the corrupt UNIT colonel was only corrupt because she wanted to go into space herself. I know it's tempting, and paints her as a "dark version" of a companion, but, c'mon. It's not like UNIT hasn't hired its personnel from the shallow end of the gene pool before.

Apart from that...I still want to know is the Dorothy who was mentioned Ace or the more obscure and much more badly treated in the series an expanded universe Dodo (Dorothea). I'm secretly hoping the latter, bur only because I kinda want Ace to have found another lesbian cat-person somewhere deep in the cosmos to shack up with.

No mention of Peri, so we still don't know for sure if she died, brain raped, or lived and married BRIAN BLESSED. Again I'm hoping the latter really, two loud hams in matrimonial harmony.

Q: was I the only person, when they were doing the "wow" thing of the UNIT base, who went "it's only a model".

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

I thought it was kinda interesting that Colonel Corrupt clearly had a backstory we weren't being told. "There's nothing for me on Earth. Not any more." And that's all we get.

Sorry, but I think there's a reason Dorothy's group is A Charitable Earth, and not Dynamic Overall something-beginning-with-D Organisation 8-). But I agree it'd be nice to know what happened to Dorothea, and that it wasn't the events of Who Killed Kennedy.

There's no reason Ace can't be running a charity and have shacked up with a lesbian cat person, though.