paulopaperbooksonly's review
3.0
Frostfire
Vickie aka Lady Cressida has a tale to tell. Basically as other companion tales its about a Companion sharing his tales about the Doctor. In this case we don't know to whom is Vickie telling.
As you all know, for those who watch the series, Vickie left the Doctor and married some guy after going to the Troyan times (The Myth Makers). There she rename herself as Cressida (you should check the google for it... yes I will wait........ Yeah she is that Cressida).
She begins to tell a tale about a time they were in the Victoria period and something strange was happening. Time was freezing over. There they deal with a being called a Cinder (think of it as a Phoenix kind of animal). It is a interesting tale, not that boring comparing with other tales, and the end they are trying to decide what to do with it. The Phoenix needs heat and left uncheck he could bring a ice age if you will. As the story progress we understand that the being Vickie is talking is the Cinder that now she is living on a temple of Astartes and Vickie keep him in check with small amount of food to keep her company after all she is all alone on that time. Nobody understands her...
This is a fate of most companions of the Doctor. After seeing wonders and knowing too much how can you return to a happy boring uneventful life?
Vickie aka Lady Cressida has a tale to tell. Basically as other companion tales its about a Companion sharing his tales about the Doctor. In this case we don't know to whom is Vickie telling.
As you all know, for those who watch the series, Vickie left the Doctor and married some guy after going to the Troyan times (The Myth Makers). There she rename herself as Cressida (you should check the google for it... yes I will wait........ Yeah she is that Cressida).
She begins to tell a tale about a time they were in the Victoria period and something strange was happening. Time was freezing over. There they deal with a being called a Cinder (think of it as a Phoenix kind of animal). It is a interesting tale, not that boring comparing with other tales, and the end they are trying to decide what to do with it. The Phoenix needs heat and left uncheck he could bring a ice age if you will. As the story progress we understand that the being Vickie is talking is the Cinder that now she is living on a temple of Astartes and Vickie keep him in check with small amount of food to keep her company after all she is all alone on that time. Nobody understands her...
This is a fate of most companions of the Doctor. After seeing wonders and knowing too much how can you return to a happy boring uneventful life?
nwhyte's review
Frostfire is the best of the first four. Marc Platt is the author: he lands the Doctor, Vicki and Steven in the frozen London of 1814, where they team up with Jane Austen - Jane Austen - to defeat a nefarious force that threatens to suck the energy out from the whole of London, and maybe the world. Platt and through him Maureen O'Brien (playing Vicki for the first time in over forty years!) between them catch the First Doctor's voice perfectly, though poor Steven doesn't get much to do. It's nice to have a framing narrative of Vicki - now Cressida - reminiscing about the events of years before, for her subjective time line, or three thousand years in the future, by Earth time, and it turns out to have more relevance to events than anticipated. There is a typical Marc Platt paradox by way of plot resolution, and you have to swallow the concept of Jane Austen as woman of action, but it is tremendously enjoyable.
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