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Indlæser... The Witch from the Wellaf Rick Briggs
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Sorry to say that I thought this was a rare misfire from the Big Finish main sequence of stories. I love the chemistry between Paul McGann's Doctor and Julie Cox's Mary Shelley, but this story keeps them apart in return for a tale of moral, psychological and time-paradoxical complexity which the script didn't really do justice to. Some elements of the plot were similar to the Who book I was reading at the same time, Justin Richards' novel The Death Riders, which confused me a bit, though this is not anyone else's fault. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Briggs writes a nice story. I mean, The Witch from the Well will never be called a classic of the genre, but it's one of those Doctor Who stories with a couple monsters, a nice idea, and a lot of running around that never really flags, and never bungles things up. What could be a bog-standard runaround is saved by the use of the two different time periods. In these days of wibbley-wobbly Moffaty-sophistry, it's nothing new or impressive... but the story doesn't ask us to be impressed, either. It's a new layer or complication added into the plot, a bit of color that actually does quite a bit to energize the story.
It's not as clever as The Silver Turk, but it's on a firmer footing, and I enjoyed it straight through. Plus also there's some nice jokes, and I'll never complain about that. Sometimes Doctor Who goes for big and brash and bold (and does it wonderfully), but there's something in these smaller stories, about the ordinary folks who aren't Time Lords or Time Agents or whatever: lost people trying to find their way in a strange universe, who the Doctor drops in on and gives a helping hand. The Doctor went to Vetter's Tor to save a monster, and both it and us are the better for it.
You can read a longer version of this review at Unreality SF.