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1.0 out of 5 stars
Siv meets Swiss cheese,
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This review is from: Doctor Who: The Pescatons (Target Doctor Who Library No 153) (Paperback)
When the TARDIS lands near the Thames, the Doctor finds himself harrassed by fish-people, flash-backs, and under mental attack.This is a collection-rounder-outer. It is not a good story. The fourth Doctor isn't the Fourth Doctor. The story is so FULL of holes. In one scene, two people are saved by the Pescatons: they're not eaten. The doctor thinks maybe it had something to do with their mindpower or something. Yet when dim fishies find a fourteen-year-old, they take him. (What happended to him? Last we see of him, the Pescatons are taking him somewhere, before the doctor defeats them. What happended to him?) And those two people weren't spared so they could cry wolf and bring people with brain power, the Pescatons bring attention to themselves rather easily. Well, you know what cartoons, comics, and media in general have shown us over the years. If you're really cool, you'll never die or get hurt. Look at Snake-Eyes. I could go on forever, but I'll say one more then have my peace. Everyone calls Sarah, 'Sarah Jane'. Ah, well. At least it's not as annoying as when 'the Doctor' is allways called "Doctor Who" in 'Doctor Who and the Zarbi'. In short, boring, hole-filled story, flat, untouchable people, buy this book to complete your collection.
3.0 out of 5 stars
An Alternative Version Of The Audio Story,
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This review is from: Doctor Who: The Pescatons (Target Doctor Who Library No 153) (Paperback)
Doctor Who: The Pescatons started out as the first Doctor Who audio release way back in 1976. As an audio release of its time, the audio story "Doctor Who" and the Pescatons (BBC Audio Collection) had only three actors (Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen and Bill Mitchell if memory serves me correctly) and much of it was told in Baker's narration. So that brings us to this book, published twenty-five years later and the question: is it worth buying?
Victor Pemeberton takes the novel as an opportunity to flesh out the audio story and its 45 minute length. Pemberton adds new characters to the story and even manages to give it a bigger scope then the original audio story managed. By adding in new characters and subplots (especially astronomer Professor Emmerson), Pemberton makes this a treat for those who have listened and enjoyed the original audio version of the story. Yet the expansion of the story is when this novel hits problems. By expanding the story and adding characters, one would expect them (and Pemeberton in effect) to add some depth to the original story. The answer is that they don't really. While they bring something the audio story lacked (which is to say that the story needed development in terms of bringing in more scenes and character to add depth) they don't really endear the novel at all. In fact one reads them and wonders Pembereton added them in at all most of the time. So back to the question: is it worth buying? The answer depends on a couple of things. If, like me, you listened to Pescatons and enjoyed, this novel is worth checking out as an alternative version of that story. If you have not heard the original audio then get it first then think about getting the novel. Otherwise, you might not enjoy the story as much as you should.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Retread of an earlier story,
This review is from: Doctor Who: The Pescatons (Target Doctor Who Library No 153) (Paperback)
The TARDIS lands near the Thames estuary, and the Doctor and Sarah find strange things afoot (and afin, as it turns out). A scientific expedition investigating a meteorite has vanished and something savage is stalking the riverside...Based on a Doctor Who adventure released on an LP record in 1976, 'The Pescatons' is very reminiscent of Victor Pemberton's earlier 'Fury from the Deep' (perhaps crossed with 'The Seeds of Doom', one of the album's contemporaries). The realisation of the Doctor's fourth incarnation is incomplete (his piccolo, for instance, showing that Mr. Pemberton had the second incarnation still in mind), and Sarah is reduced to a generic companion. The Doctor's first audio adventure, and it's adaptation, are nothing to write home about. The advantage of the book is that Mr. Pemberton has the opportunity to add a lot of detail that I don't recall from the album (which I haven't owned for years, and didn't find memorable...), so this may be the preferred way to experience this story.
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