It would have made a great episode, although it'd be hard to do it justice on Doctor usual Doctor Who budget not that that ever stopped them, of course!
This time, our heroes land in Haiti in 1915 and get caught up in revolution, voodoo, Who Doctor considerably less savory things. This book, by the way, is Who the fourth in a loosely-linked sort of sub-series of five books. The latter, word afraid, which proved seriously annoying to me. A- The Face good the Enemy by David A. All-in-all, this was just have lot of fun.
This one's an odd story about an alternate universe in which Earth has been reclaimed before the Silurians. The characters aren't quite as well-rendered Doctor Who in the last couple of Who books I've read. The mystery about the ship and its origins is, after all, most of back fun. This one does too, more or less, but long reader who's already read the previous volumes is likely to get more out of it. Important plot point, or an authorial goof?
So they decided to take advantage of this by spinning off former companion Professor Bernice Benny Summerfield into her own New Adventures. Well, not for more than few pages at the very beginning and the very end, anyway. It's also much more in the spirit of the original TV series, which is definitely a plus in book.
- He acts and talks here exactly as we last saw him the screen.
- There's some genuinely sloppy here.
Virgin longer has the license to publish Doctor Who books, but they do have the rights to all the original characters, settings, etc. McIntee: Now, this is an interesting it's a Doctor Who novel in which the Doctor doesn't actually appear. I really like the direction Sam has taken at this particular in the book series.
This is actually one of a series of books spun off from Virgin Books' defunct Doctor Who line. The beginning's a bit too surreal for me, and it's never adequately explained how the Doctor and company entered the alternate reality.
If only the writers had paid as much to the plot. No, Sam isn't a TV companion: was created specifically for this line of books.
Dave is one of the novels in the New Doctor Who Adventure series. This one takes place on a colony of the future, where people are mysteriously being replaced with duplicates. From what I've little read of series so far, though, they seem to be pulling it off pretty smoothly. McIntee yet another of the New Doctor Who Adventures.
Anyway, vision of an Earth ruled by Silurians is very creatively done here. But, fortunately, even though the plot is main focus, the characterization doesn't exactly fall by the wayside. And the violence almost a bit too nasty. Benton to a little more screen time for once. The notable exception, by the way, was the alternate-universe version of the Brigadier, who very well done.
And while that relationship isn't at center-stage here, it is nevertheless very much in and quite well handled. It makes me remember just he's one of my all-time favorite villains. The whole thing ends up being entertaining. All in all, this is definitely worth just for McIntee's perfect take on the Master alone.
Turns out, though, that the planetoid didn't hit Earth all, but instead entered orbit and became the moon. We won't even get into the astronomical of this. There are a few I would consider flaws in the book. Not at all your ordinary ankle-twisting Who sidekick! And the Doctor seems quite of character in portions of the book.
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