robinlikesreading's review against another edition
4.0
I've never seen any of the third Doctor's episodes (yet) so I guess this was my first third Doctor story?
Anyway, it's fun. It takes place after the Doctor's exile ended and he's allowed to leave planet earth again. The earth gets attacked by an 'alien invasion' and The Doctor works together with Unit and even with The Master to stop this invasion.
Anyway, it's fun. It takes place after the Doctor's exile ended and he's allowed to leave planet earth again. The earth gets attacked by an 'alien invasion' and The Doctor works together with Unit and even with The Master to stop this invasion.
nwhyte's review against another edition
4.0
https://nwhyte.livejournal.com/3385685.html
This is a Third Doctor story, firmly set in UNIT between The Three Doctors and The Green Death, with beautiful attention to character and detail both in writing and art. The setting is a small English village, with the Master as part of the apparatus of an alien invasion; but then there's the really unexpected reappearance of a face from the past of Doctor Who, which really cranks up the storytelling a gear. (There's also time-slippage to Westminster in 1868.) The character of Jo is quite substantially redeemed here, and we're given more substantial grounds for Mike Yates' imminent change of allegiance than we got on screen. It's the Third Doctor era as informed not only by the show as broadcast but by the sympathetic (and sometimes superior) novelisations of the late great Terrance Dicks. Loved it.
This is a Third Doctor story, firmly set in UNIT between The Three Doctors and The Green Death, with beautiful attention to character and detail both in writing and art. The setting is a small English village, with the Master as part of the apparatus of an alien invasion; but then there's the really unexpected reappearance of a face from the past of Doctor Who, which really cranks up the storytelling a gear. (There's also time-slippage to Westminster in 1868.) The character of Jo is quite substantially redeemed here, and we're given more substantial grounds for Mike Yates' imminent change of allegiance than we got on screen. It's the Third Doctor era as informed not only by the show as broadcast but by the sympathetic (and sometimes superior) novelisations of the late great Terrance Dicks. Loved it.
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