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simmaberg's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
bookishwelshie's review
4.0
Picking right back up from where "The Knight, The Fool, and the Dead" left off, The Tenth Doctor comes face to face with two of his former selves - the Eighth and Ninth Doctors.
The Eighth Doctor is onboard a Dalek ship and the Ninth is on a Coffin ship, full of vampires. Via a video link between the ships’ screens, both of them implore with Ten to cease with his current mission.
However, donning the Time Lord robes, Ten is stubborn as he believes this is his destiny as the Time Lord Victorious.
My favourite character in this is most definitely Brian the Ood - a trained assassin Ood, who may be a little bit mad.
A Multi-Doctor story never fails to excite me. The author manages to capture each of the Doctors’ different personalities and voices very well. It is joyous when the three of them are interacting with one another.
Also the Ninth Doctor mentions my hometown, Rhyl! (Well I live in a nice little village just outside of it but STILL it says Rhyl on my address so it counts!).
These short, fast paced, books really just suit Doctor Who. I need to listen to the Time Lord Victorious Big Finish audio dramas and also read the comic books next.
I always long for more Eighth and Ninth Doctor content, so I'm very excited for adventures with them by listening to more Big Finish.
The Eighth Doctor is onboard a Dalek ship and the Ninth is on a Coffin ship, full of vampires. Via a video link between the ships’ screens, both of them implore with Ten to cease with his current mission.
However, donning the Time Lord robes, Ten is stubborn as he believes this is his destiny as the Time Lord Victorious.
My favourite character in this is most definitely Brian the Ood - a trained assassin Ood, who may be a little bit mad.
A Multi-Doctor story never fails to excite me. The author manages to capture each of the Doctors’ different personalities and voices very well. It is joyous when the three of them are interacting with one another.
Also the Ninth Doctor mentions my hometown, Rhyl! (Well I live in a nice little village just outside of it but STILL it says Rhyl on my address so it counts!).
These short, fast paced, books really just suit Doctor Who. I need to listen to the Time Lord Victorious Big Finish audio dramas and also read the comic books next.
I always long for more Eighth and Ninth Doctor content, so I'm very excited for adventures with them by listening to more Big Finish.
olegx's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
robertmorvay's review
1.0
Boring, redundant, and shockingly underwritten. A completely uninspired conclusion that wastes a lot of great potential wholely.
lesserjoke's review
3.0
The second and final Time Lord Victorious novel offers a generally satisfying resolution to this sprawling Doctor Who multimedia experiment, although there are still a few open areas that might be shaded in by future releases of some sort or another. The project ultimately boils down to the Tenth Doctor journeying back to the dawn of time after the events of The Waters of Mars and trying to stop the beings who introduced life expectancy into the universe, and here's where he's finally thwarted by two of his previous incarnations and an assortment of unlikely allies.
Truth be told, I feel as though this book could have delivered even more crossover, pulling from all of the different comics and audio dramas and everything for a suitably epic finale, but instead we mostly just get vampires and Daleks -- and the erstwhile Ood assassin Brian -- going into a battle that plays out largely as a steady sequence of spaceships exploding. All three of the Doctors seem too callous toward the high body count, and author Una McCormack's choice to officially describe them in text by number (Eighth Doctor, etc.) is odd for the franchise albeit understandable to prevent reader confusion.
Like usual for this type of story, the scenes when various regenerations of the same Time Lord draw together to banter or exchange grim knowing glances are definitely worthwhile, and the concluding chapters in particular do a good job of illustrating each one's respective moment along their shared character history. As an overall narrative venture, the Time Lord Victorious arc has consistently struggled to come across as more than a cash-grab curiosity, and I can't imagine any critics having their minds changed by the present volume. Nevertheless, it represents a reasonably solid ending that I do think I'd recommend for anyone who's been following the twisting adventure throughout.
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Truth be told, I feel as though this book could have delivered even more crossover, pulling from all of the different comics and audio dramas and everything for a suitably epic finale, but instead we mostly just get vampires and Daleks -- and the erstwhile Ood assassin Brian -- going into a battle that plays out largely as a steady sequence of spaceships exploding. All three of the Doctors seem too callous toward the high body count, and author Una McCormack's choice to officially describe them in text by number (Eighth Doctor, etc.) is odd for the franchise albeit understandable to prevent reader confusion.
Like usual for this type of story, the scenes when various regenerations of the same Time Lord draw together to banter or exchange grim knowing glances are definitely worthwhile, and the concluding chapters in particular do a good job of illustrating each one's respective moment along their shared character history. As an overall narrative venture, the Time Lord Victorious arc has consistently struggled to come across as more than a cash-grab curiosity, and I can't imagine any critics having their minds changed by the present volume. Nevertheless, it represents a reasonably solid ending that I do think I'd recommend for anyone who's been following the twisting adventure throughout.
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potplant's review
Exciting and fast paced, but the plot was disjointed at times, and I felt it could have further explored the themes of the first novel.
jnickless20's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
thetasigma906's review
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0