lokster71's review against another edition
4.0
Having watched The Invasion of Time recently and failed to enjoy it much at all I thought I'd give the Target book a read. It makes for a much better story as a Terrance Dicks authored Target book than as the cobbled together, strike damaged, inflation hit catastrophe that the TV story is.
If you read this before seeing the TV version then you'll find the TV version a soggy disappointment, but you'd find that anyway.
Read the book. It's a classic piece of Terrance Dicks. He tidies up some untidy bits of the TV series, doesn't waste a word doing so and drives the story along at a pace that TV series doesn't have. It also makes a little more sense and there are more hints that Andred has feelings for Leela in the book so the finale isn't a surprise, even if it is still a disappointment. Leela deserved better. Louise Jameson deserved better.
To cut a long rant short: the book is better than the TV series.
If you read this before seeing the TV version then you'll find the TV version a soggy disappointment, but you'd find that anyway.
Read the book. It's a classic piece of Terrance Dicks. He tidies up some untidy bits of the TV series, doesn't waste a word doing so and drives the story along at a pace that TV series doesn't have. It also makes a little more sense and there are more hints that Andred has feelings for Leela in the book so the finale isn't a surprise, even if it is still a disappointment. Leela deserved better. Louise Jameson deserved better.
To cut a long rant short: the book is better than the TV series.
nwhyte's review against another edition
http://nhw.livejournal.com/1007902.html[return][return]Doctor Who and the Invasion of Time is standard stuff, neither particularly good nor particularly bad.
wealhtheow's review against another edition
3.0
I love that even other Time Lords are nonplussed by the Doctor. His clever antics make even terrifying alien invasions a lark.
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