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teal_an0maly's review
THIS REVIEW IS ONLY FOR THE STORY "THE FIVE O' CLOCK SHADOW" i will add the rest when i get to thek in my chronological read of everything doctor who :)
This one is interesting, it's basically a big poem!
It's about the doctor and Susan fighting off the "five o clock shadow" which is basically the doctors angst incarnate
It's pretty cool and I've not seen anything else like it (yet)
"There he is, look! There's the Doc!
Flapping around in his coat of frock!
Silk scarf behind him, nose in front,
Clever chap, you know, not your average grunt."
-The Five O'Clock Shadow
This one is interesting, it's basically a big poem!
It's about the doctor and Susan fighting off the "five o clock shadow" which is basically the doctors angst incarnate
It's pretty cool and I've not seen anything else like it (yet)
"There he is, look! There's the Doc!
Flapping around in his coat of frock!
Silk scarf behind him, nose in front,
Clever chap, you know, not your average grunt."
-The Five O'Clock Shadow
nwhyte's review
3.0
http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2724433.html
Another in the generally good series of anthologies by Big Finish, this one leaning a lot more on Big Finish's own continuity and thus a bit less on TV Who (though Nev Fountain's "The Five O’Clock Shadow" bridges the TV and comics versions of the First Doctor, with the Cushing Doctor Who thrown in as well). I did not really understand what the theme was here, except perhaps that all the stories take place at different times of day, and the last one appeared to loop back to the first. The two that really stood out for me were Richard Salter's "Waiting for Jeremy", where the First Doctor demonstrates to Steven that rewriting time is not straightforward or even desirable, and the romp "Morphology" by Phil Pascoe, in the Third Doctor and Jo, along with a UNIT soldier called Osgood, become entangled in a situation where all vowels except 'o' are removed from the universe. (Pascoe's only other Who writing credit is the similarly linguistic early Big Finish audio ...ish.)
Another in the generally good series of anthologies by Big Finish, this one leaning a lot more on Big Finish's own continuity and thus a bit less on TV Who (though Nev Fountain's "The Five O’Clock Shadow" bridges the TV and comics versions of the First Doctor, with the Cushing Doctor Who thrown in as well). I did not really understand what the theme was here, except perhaps that all the stories take place at different times of day, and the last one appeared to loop back to the first. The two that really stood out for me were Richard Salter's "Waiting for Jeremy", where the First Doctor demonstrates to Steven that rewriting time is not straightforward or even desirable, and the romp "Morphology" by Phil Pascoe, in the Third Doctor and Jo, along with a UNIT soldier called Osgood, become entangled in a situation where all vowels except 'o' are removed from the universe. (Pascoe's only other Who writing credit is the similarly linguistic early Big Finish audio ...ish.)
dodau's review
The twelth collection of short stories about the Doctor and friends.
There were some good stories in this collection though they were a little 4th and 8th Doctor heavy. No particualler stand outs either good or bad. Light and easy to read.
There were some good stories in this collection though they were a little 4th and 8th Doctor heavy. No particualler stand outs either good or bad. Light and easy to read.
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