Post by 🐍 cahusserole 🐍 on Mar 5, 2014 1:28:28 GMT -5
Doctor: Eighth
Companion: Sam
Prole Hole swears to me that these novels get really good. I am believing in that statement as much as I can, because although this is better than Kursaal, it's still not very good. Sam, the Doctor's companion, is really not a compelling character. Here's what I know about her: she's got short blonde hair, she likes running, and she gets jealous of anyone looking in the Doctor's direction. I've been reading about her for eight books now, and that's about all I know. She gets a mystery in #6, Alien Bodies, but it hasn't been addressed in the last two books.
(Oh god, there's still ten more books before Fitz shows up! Also I would like to take this moment to giggle immaturely because that novel is called "The Taint.")
At first this book is about a mystery on an English country estate, involving alchemy and hypnotism. But then it goes all War Games. Someone tricks this fake-former-SSR country into thinking the US has launched ze missiles! so they launch ze missiles back! and it's all very tense until the US uses its orbital defense space station,the Watchtower Station Nine, to shoot them down in midair. The world gets pissed off that the US has been hiding this superweapon and the US goes "FINE WE'LL GIVE IT TO THE U.N. JEEZ."
Anyway, it turns out the estate the TARDIS landed at contains the remains of a Khameirian spaceship that crashed hundreds of years ago. The creatures on it impressed their memories upon the minds of a local group of humans. They intermarried to keep their blood pure, in anticipation of the day that they would get nuclear bomb'd and return to their true forms. That makes... sense?
The estate owner, who has the most unrefined Khameirian blood of the group, gets the Doctor to take him up to Station Nine in the TARDIS so he can bomb his estate as well as the station itself (since he also wants to shed his shitty human body). Thanks to the sacrifice of a Prisoner fanboy and no thanks to a hypnotized Sam, the plot is foiled. (I'm just saying, Jo was able to fight off the Master's mental domination by reciting nursery rhymes at him. This guy's mental abilities could not have been stronger than his.)
The day is saved! OR IS IT. There's a tag that insinuates we may be coming back to this storyline later, but I hope not.
Companion: Sam
Prole Hole swears to me that these novels get really good. I am believing in that statement as much as I can, because although this is better than Kursaal, it's still not very good. Sam, the Doctor's companion, is really not a compelling character. Here's what I know about her: she's got short blonde hair, she likes running, and she gets jealous of anyone looking in the Doctor's direction. I've been reading about her for eight books now, and that's about all I know. She gets a mystery in #6, Alien Bodies, but it hasn't been addressed in the last two books.
(Oh god, there's still ten more books before Fitz shows up! Also I would like to take this moment to giggle immaturely because that novel is called "The Taint.")
At first this book is about a mystery on an English country estate, involving alchemy and hypnotism. But then it goes all War Games. Someone tricks this fake-former-SSR country into thinking the US has launched ze missiles! so they launch ze missiles back! and it's all very tense until the US uses its orbital defense space station,
Anyway, it turns out the estate the TARDIS landed at contains the remains of a Khameirian spaceship that crashed hundreds of years ago. The creatures on it impressed their memories upon the minds of a local group of humans. They intermarried to keep their blood pure, in anticipation of the day that they would get nuclear bomb'd and return to their true forms. That makes... sense?
The estate owner, who has the most unrefined Khameirian blood of the group, gets the Doctor to take him up to Station Nine in the TARDIS so he can bomb his estate as well as the station itself (since he also wants to shed his shitty human body). Thanks to the sacrifice of a Prisoner fanboy and no thanks to a hypnotized Sam, the plot is foiled. (I'm just saying, Jo was able to fight off the Master's mental domination by reciting nursery rhymes at him. This guy's mental abilities could not have been stronger than his.)
The day is saved! OR IS IT. There's a tag that insinuates we may be coming back to this storyline later, but I hope not.
