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nyn23's review
4.0
I'll say for this one close to the same thing I said for the last one. It was a great story, a fast read, and nothing's really better than Doctor Who...but, I've seen this storyline before. In this story, the Eleventh Doctor is looking into how the Daleks meddled with World War I. He doesn't have a companion in this one, so I'm just assuming it's after Amy and Rory left and before the Doctor found Clara. It would be nice to know for sure though. In the TV show, the Eleventh Doctor and Amy go to look into how the Daleks are meddling with World War II.
I'm hoping the similarities are a coincidence and I'll find a few Doctor Who graphic novels with storylines that are a little more original (or at least less of a copy of one of the TV episodes).
Geronimo!
I'm hoping the similarities are a coincidence and I'll find a few Doctor Who graphic novels with storylines that are a little more original (or at least less of a copy of one of the TV episodes).
Geronimo!
nwhyte's review
3.0
http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2158739.html[return][return]As with a number of the recent Who novels, this is aimed at a slightly younger readership, with the Doctor's co-adventurers being three children rescued from a spaceship by him after their parents' death (no novel with Clara yet, as far as I know, although she has been on the show since April, or perhaps longer depending how you count). I was very interested to note that, like Malorie Blackman's The Ripple Effect published last month, The Dalek Generation presents a situation where the Daleks are perceived as a force for good rather than evil, with the Doctor frustrated in his attempts to warn against them. I do wonder if this is a subtle (or maybe even unsubtle) hint about a storyline we can expect for the two episodes due to air later this year.[return][return]That apart, it's quite a different story from Blackman's; it's clear to the reader from the first chapter that the Daleks really are evil here, but the story of what they are looking for, and how the Doctor and his traumatised young friends thwart their plans in the face of a wilfully ignorant totalitarian society which won't believe them, is nicely convoluted and also evocative of various previous Who stories. If you are happy to adjust for the target readership, it is very enjoyable.
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