A Doctor Who adventure. At Brighton in the 1980s, SeneNet Interactive are getting ready to launch their new 64-bit games console. But who are SeneNet? Their headquarters are guarded fiercely and they are buying up smaller companies. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart's C19 security division investigates.
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great, but with one flaw,
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This review is from: Business Unusual (Dr. Who Series) (Paperback)
The Doctor has arrived on Earth in 1989 to correct a problem that the Master has created. The Doctor manages to get it taken care of, for the most part, but he needs someone who is familiar with the simpleness of the Earth's computers at that time to help him. Enter Melanie Bush. The Doctor has seen his future (thanks to the Matrix) and doesn't like what he has seen. He believes that if he can prevent Mel from traveling with him he can avoid the existence of the Valyard. thus, he spends the whole book being rather short with Mel, trying to deliberatly put her off of traveling with him. On the up side, Gary Russell has nailed the character of Colin's Doctor (my personal favorite) right down to his fondness for children and the ego the size of the universe. Absolutely wonderful! BUT!!Considering that the Doctor knows his future and wants to avoid it he takes great pains to keep it from happening. He knows that he cannot interfere with what he knows will happen (I refer any confused readers to "Festival of Death") yet he insists on doing just that. As a Time Lord he knows that he cannot change the future, and yet he tries his hardest to change it. He evnetually gives in however, after the final heart-renching scene when he tells Mel that she cannot travel with him and she manages to sneak aboard anyway, he knows that he cannot escape what he knows will happen. As far as the main plot, I thought it was inventive and well written. I wish that we had seen more interaction between the 6th and the Brigadier, but it was well done nonetheless. Gary Russell did an excellent job in explaining the presence of Mel during the "Trial" and her subsequesnt disapearance. Overall a very excellent book, with just one annoying little temporal law flaw.
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The Sixth Doctor Meets Mel!,
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This review is from: Business Unusual (Dr. Who Series) (Paperback)
This is a story I wish they would have filmed. Not only does this feel like Doctor Who, we finally are able to see how the Doctor picks up Mel Bush! One of the better Doctor Who novels I've read!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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(Re-)introducing Mel Bush,
This review is from: Business Unusual (Dr. Who Series) (Paperback)
Having assisted UNIT to defeat a plot by the Master and the Usurians from wreaking economic havoc on Earth, the Doctor is left with one problem: how to undo the computer virus that they have left behind. The Doctor is not familiar with the primitive Earth computer language involved, and so a local is needed. Imagine his horror when that local turns out to be the woman he is trying to avoid: Mel Bush, his future companion...In the wake of 'The Trial of the Time Lord', we have a Doctor who knows that he has the potentials to become the antithesis of what he believes in. During his trial, he became aware that he would one day have Mel as a companion, and sees this as a step down the path towards becoming the Valeyard. This story is the real introductory story for Mel, who must prove herself as worthy in ways that other companion have never had to. One of the least popular of the Doctor's companions in her TV appearances, Gary Russell takes on the difficult task of proving Mel worthy to both the Doctor and the readers. I guess the extent to which he succeeds is a matter of opinion: this book certainly makes Mel a less one-dimensional character than she appeared on TV. As well as coping with that continuity issue, though, Mr. Russell might have been wiser to have set the whole thing up with an enemy who is mining the Doctor's past adventures on Earth for weapons. Recognising and appreciating all the threats that arise later in the book really requires a bunch of knowledge of the Doctor's earlier adventures.
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