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2.0 out of 5 stars
Unsurprising story which fails to excite,
This review is from: Doctor Who: The Krotons (Doctor Who Library) (Paperback)
Terrance Dicks adapts this story, which is probably most notable for the fact that the script was written by Robert Holmes, one of the greatest writers in the history of Doctor Who. However, the stories that earned him such a title were still in the future when he wrote this...The TARDIS arrives on an unnamed planet, where the Gonds live around a great machine in which live the Krotons, who teach the Gonds everything they know. However, periodically the two best students enter the machine to become "the Companions of the Krotons", which is seen to be a great honour. However, something truly terrible happens inside the machine. Accidentally, the Doctor and Zoe are tested and chosen to become the latest Companions of the Krotons... Mr. Dicks has adapted a lot of Doctor Who stories into novels. When he first started they were quite good, but as time went by it seems he wrote too many, and they lack any real spark. Fortunately, his later original Doctor Who novels saw him exceed his early work. This novel, though, is in one of his more lacklustre periods.
3.0 out of 5 stars
A bit uneventful,
By Bill Huebsch (Virginia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Doctor Who: The Krotons (Doctor Who Library) (Paperback)
This particular novelization is a bit on the slow side. Primarily because it does not have the tension that many of the Doctor Who books have. The Doctor and his companions (Jamie and Zoe) land on the planet of the Gonds, apparently at the random whims of the TARDIS. Their timing is, as always, impecable. They are just in time to see the Gonds send their brightest students to meet the Krotons, apparently a regular ritual. As frequently happens in the Doctor's presence, things take a turn for the worst, the Doctor gets mixed up in local affairs that could mean the end of the locals' existance, and he has to save everyone, including himself, from certain death. And yet the story is told without the ususal bit on oomph that makes the Doctor Who stories so special. The protagonists are not terribly well developed and the Gonds are somewhat flavorless. Everything unfolds in a clinical manner, the reader does not get pulled into the story.
Overall on the lower end of the Doctor Who novelizations, but not a bad story. Just not a gripping one. A quick, easy read none the less, but there are many better Doctor Who stories to be had.
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