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| What: | History 101 (BBC Eighth Doctor novels) |
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| By: | Hatman, Gangsta's paradise |
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| Date: | Wednesday 26 July 2006 |
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| Rating: |   6 |
In Spain, there are more Russians. Did you know that the country with the most Russians in it is Russia? you learn a new thing every day...
| What: | Emotional Chemistry (BBC Eighth Doctor novels) |
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| By: | Hatman, Rapper's paradise |
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| Date: | Wednesday 26 July 2006 |
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| Rating: | 5 |
In England, you watch TV. in the motherland, the TV watches YOU. Falls exactly in the average category. in parts.
| What: | The Suns of Caresh (BBC Past Doctor novels) |
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| By: | Hatman, the fridge |
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| Date: | Wednesday 26 July 2006 |
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| Rating: | 4 |
silightly on the cack side. is this the only review for this? If so, WHY?
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 | This isn't [doctor] who I am!!! |
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| What: | Fear Itself (BBC Past Doctor novels) |
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| By: | Hatman, Teletext |
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| Date: | Wednesday 26 July 2006 |
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| Rating: | 7 |
Seems like the film Alien in the 'now' bits. a strong book crippled by disjointedness. Strange lack of hats.
| What: | Reckless Engineering (BBC Eighth Doctor novels) |
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| By: | Hatman, why ask? |
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| Date: | Wednesday 26 July 2006 |
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| Rating: | 6 |
the sequel to the last book reviewed. what is a trilogy with two parts? a duology? a twology? a bilogy [the traveller will get that one] anyway, the book was ok. ish
| What: | The Domino Effect (BBC Eighth Doctor novels) |
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| By: | Hatman, Bixstead |
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| Date: | Wednesday 26 July 2006 |
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| Rating: | 5 |
part one. was good until the end, where things got a bit rushed. ends on a cliffhanger. borrows too much from the matrix.
| What: | Halflife (BBC Eighth Doctor novels) |
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| By: | Hatman, location, location, location... |
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| Date: | Wednesday 26 July 2006 |
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| Rating: | 6 |
I'll steal reviews if I want to! the book? what book? oh THAT book! it was, overall, in total, all in all average.In parts. Most of the time.
| What: | Only Human (BBC New Series Adventures novels) |
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| By: | Matt, Dublin |
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| Date: | Wednesday 26 July 2006 |
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| Rating: | 6 |
A fairly good storyline until the end, Das's diary is funny and clever and saves the book in the end.
After being thoroughly confused by the Book of the Still, I was worried that I was going to have the same problem with all the others that I happened to pick up and read, but I found the Crooked World very easy to get my head around.
I found the story to be light, easy to read, funny, and often touching and very thought-provoking. I don’t think the point of this book was to be a masterpiece of modern fiction, it’s supposed to be light-hearted, self-referential and really good fun, and that’s exactly what it is. I have to say, after sitting through the Doctor being unconscious for most of the Book of the Still one way or another, it was great to see him actually taking control of the situation and doing what he does best in this one. With this book I got a much better idea of the Eighth Doctor’s character than I have done so far, and it was full of all the little twists, quirks and moral quandaries that no Doctor Who novel should be without.
Good fun, and a good read.
| What: | Genocide (BBC Eighth Doctor novels) |
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| By: | Piers, UK |
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| Date: | Wednesday 26 July 2006 |
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| Rating: | 7 |
This was the first Doctor Who book I'd read in a while, and it really reminded me of what I enjoy about these novels - an interesting story that is not just entertaining, but also makes you think about certain issues. Do we (the human race) deserve the Earth considering how we have treated it? Probably not. Considering the environmental issues that drive this novel, this could easily have been a Third Doctor adventure, which perhaps explains the presence of Jo and the very brief inclusion of UNIT.
Unfortunately these elements are the weakest part of the story: Jo is completely wasted. We learn a little about her current life, but beyond that this character could have been anybody. There was nothing about her that reminded me of Jo from the series, and her interaction with the Eighth Doctor is minimal. Most unforgivable is that there is no goodbye scene at the end; maybe Paul Leonard felt that he couldn't top Jo's leaving scene from 'The Green Death'. Also, a couple of loose ends aren't tied up: who did the anomalous fossilised skull belong to - Rowenna? Jacob?
In short a great story, as long as you don't dwell on a few niggling inconsistencies.
| What: | Doctor Who (BBC classic series videos) |
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| By: | the Traveller, the end of the world |
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| Date: | Tuesday 25 July 2006 |
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| Rating: | 6 |
(actually I'm the Traveller, but...)
Paul McGann makes a fab Doctor, but this Movie is pretty crap. The plot is almost as thin as I am, hah!
By the way Hatman, write your own damn reviews!
| What: | Scream of the Shalka (BBC Past Doctor novels) |
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| By: | Hatman, get you! |
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| Date: | Tuesday 25 July 2006 |
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| Rating: | 3 |
Look at the score! do you want to read this?
| What: | I am a Dalek (Quick Reads books) |
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| By: | Hatman, ??? |
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| Date: | Tuesday 25 July 2006 |
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| Rating: | 7 |
[insert the traveller's review here]
BUT i've seen the episodes a million times (at least).
I agree with the 1st reviewer on most counts but must say that this set released on DVD would be a must buy. Think of the extra's! Rememberance needs a re-release on DVD, the BBC have done it no justice.
We want a 2-disc edition!!
I was about 3-4 years old when this was released on VHS, and for this reason alone i can't fault it. I had no idea until recently that it wasn't loved by all!
It's Tom's first season, it's got Sarah and Harry. Tom's first season, i think, is one of the best 1st seasons of any of the Doctor's.
The Cybermen have guns in their heads! Don't knock it! As this was my 1st cybermen story i was completely shocked that the "head-guns" were abandoned after this! Madness.
I completely understand other people's criticism's, but for me this is a true classic.
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What could of descended into a predictable primitve tribes-people tale is saved by four intelligent and interesting scripts by Chris Boucher. The Doctor is very well written (I'll kill him with this deadly jelly baby) as is his future companion Leela - more than just another savage. The cliffhangers are also quite good, especially the one involving the Doctor surrounded by screaming copies of his own face.
| What: | The Settling (Big Finish: The Monthly Adventures) |
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| By: | the Traveller, the end of the world |
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| Date: | Monday 24 July 2006 |
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| Rating: | 8 |
Another great McCoy audio with Hex developing as a real companion. The historical scenes are laced with a sense of desperation and powerlessness at being able to do nothing, and the TARDIS scenes are nicely written. Roll on the next release...
I didn't find this Big Finish production hugely exciting, but it is very well written, acted and produced, so well done to all involved. I agree with the other reviewer of Fires Of Vulcan, Bonnie Langford is ten times better on audio than she was on TV, and Sylvester McCoy was always good anyway.
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| Cool Tomb of the Cybermen |
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The Doctor, Jamie and Victoria join an archaeology team on an expedition to unearth the tomb of the Cybermen on the planet Telos.
The Cybermen look cool and their tombs are well designed, however some scenes now look pathetic rather than frightening and with the exception of Patrick Troughton, the acting quality isn’t great.
A longer, more whaffly review than the one i did for the VHS release:
The TARDIS explodes and the Doctor, Jamie and Zoë are transported to a fantasy realm full of fictional characters controlled by a man named the Master (no not that pantomime villain introduced later on).
Although the first episode, which follows directly on from “The Dominators-Part 5”, is a “tacked-on” addition to the original four part serial, it is (arguably) the most enjoyable, having a sense of strangeness and surrealism. The White Robots that Zoë and Jamie encounter look quite cheap and basic but in a strange way work because it is a complete mystery as to what they are doing in the white void.
After the TARDIS explodes, a pitiful shot that looks exactly like a wooden box being blown open, the Doctor, Zoë and Jamie arrive in a fantasy land which soon becomes a relatively dull if weird place to be. At first, the fictional characters appearing are good ideas, especially the clockwork soldiers. But as soon as the Doctor discovers that to defeat them, the companions simply have to will the characters away, they lose their sense of menace.
Some of the fictional characters look okay although the shot of the moving snakes on the Medusa’s head is laughable. The introduction of Hamish Wilson to play Jamie for the time Frazer Hines was away was a great idea however, allowing the character to remain in the story instead of him suddenly disappearing from the episode.
For the middle few episodes of this serial, the companions and the Doctor basically spend the time meeting familiar fictitious people and ending episodes on cliff-hangers you know they’re going to get out of. When the mastermind behind the land is revealed though, the story picks up again with the Doctor and the Master engaging in a battle of wits using people conjured up with their minds. The end, although adequate enough, is predictable and the equivalent of pressing the reset button. The length of the story as a whole is another point, as the tale drags in places and features too many easily-defeated villains, it could have benefited from being its original four episode duration, despite this being impossible at the time.
Despite having some flaws, this serial boasts plenty of ideas which, had they been worked into a faster, more exciting tale would have been more effective.
Nevertheless, this story is considered as an experimental serial instead of the more traditional Doctor Who stories which, for five weeks took the viewers on a bizarre journey through a strange land to meet characters created in fiction. This story attempted to do something different with the programme, and for some part at least, it succeeded.
