5/24/2023 0 Comments Doctor Who by Lance Parkin![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The book is chock-full of great ideas I loved the Needle and its inhabitants I thought the Sontarans and the Rutan have rarely been so well depicted. You get an amazing sense of scale and power at the same time you see how and why a Time Lord can never actually do anything: a group of people whose power is so momentous they can never make use of it. The details of how the Capitol operates, the Citadel, the relationship between the Time Lords and other Gallifreyans, the details on the technologies they possess, they're all so well done. But Lance Parkin does a great job with the Time Lords and Gallifrey, arguably better than anyone ever. When I was a young Doctor Who fan, I was fascinated by the Time Lords after years of mediocre Big Finish stories about them, I've come to think that killing them off was the best thing that ever happened to them, and I'd happily go a decade without going to Gallifrey or hearing about the Matrix or transduction barriers. The real pleasure of the book is in the worldbuilding. Is it a Doctor who returned home? Or one who never left? Or one who has yet to leave? There are hints that would indicate it's a Doctor who's settled down after a long time traveling the universe there are also hints that indicate the tv adventures we know didn't happen. The Doctor seems to be the one portrayed on screen by Paul McGann, but he lives on Gallifrey the Time Lord we would call the Master is a government official called the Magistrate, and they are friends. ![]()
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