Sebastiene was perhaps once human. He might look like a nineteenth-century nobleman, but in truth he is a ruthless hunter. He likes nothing more than luring difficult opposition to... more...a planet, then hunting them down for sport.
Sebastiene was perhaps once human. He might look like a nineteenth-century nobleman but ... more
in truth he is a ruthless hunter. He likes nothing more than luring difficult opposition to a planet then hunting them down for sport. And now he's caught them al...
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Horror has always been an important part of the Doctor Who mix. The show was never purely ... more
a science fiction series, which was its great strength. When writers remember this the novels are all the richer. In The Face-Eater the Doctor encounters three races: humans who have colonised an apparently "available" planet; the Proximans, rodent-like natives of said planet who are mysteriously dying out; and another, more powerful resident, the nameless "face-eater" whose description is disconcertingly the same in both Proximan and English. This latter being is the cause of all the fuss and is a classic monster straight from the pages of a Ramsey Campbell novel. Horrible, powerful, ruthless and devious, it lurks in the background and is only revealed at the appropriate moments. Simon Messingham makes the most of this, and the book contains some excellent moments of tension and excitement which helps to keep the whole thing rolling along. The Face-Eater is a great read and takes the Doctor back into the territory of body-horror which made TV stories like "The Ark in Space" so effective. When you can never be sure who is human and who is simply masquerading as human, then the tension can be wound as tight as you like. Two words about the cover: absolutely excellent. The BBC range keeps going from strength to strength and manages to maintain a series of connected-and-yet-discrete titles which do not alienate a casual reader by being too insular and ham-strung by internal continuity and yet contain enough to keep those who have read all of them entertained. --David J Howe
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With the regeneration and revival of the legendary DoctorWho TV series in 2005, it was strikingly obvious that a modern merchandising campaign was going to be rolled out as soon as the first episode had finished airing as new generation of fans of had effectively been captured. In my mind Season 1 starring Christopher Eccleston as the Time Travelling Doctor gave us some good episodes to further the legacy of the Doctor.
In the=is Season there were a number of two part stories, the second two-parter of the Season was called 'The Empty Child' and 'The Doctor Dances' and this story, split across two episodes introduced us to Captain Jack Harkness for the first time. It was quite a frightening story with a lone child in a gasmask roaming war torn London looking for his Mummy, come Monday morning it was an episode that was still fresh in ...
Advantages: Great rebirth of the doctor Disadvantages: None really
the handful of roles he has taken on, but he has also penned and starred in the extremely successful and hard-hitting Kidulthood, and its recently released sequel, Adulthood. Clarke is a fabulous writer and a brilliant character actor, and here, he sparks off the other actors on screen with him, particularly Jackie, Rose's mum, and the Doctor, who thinks Mickey is stupid and constantly tells him so.
The supporting cast in each episode perform very well. There is no real main support cast in the first episde, Rose, as the Autons in the form of mannequins are the main threat and it is more of an introductory episode than anything else. The second episode, The End Of The World, has a couple of very good performances, particularly from Zoe Wanamaker as the voice (yes, the voice!) of the last human, Cassandra, and also from Simon Day as the Steward ...
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Now well into the second series of the revamped DoctorWho, we see the writers take a bit of a different tack with the plotlines. We have another double episode story with The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, and then a foray into an episode where the Doctor and Rose are not greatly featured, with a band of other actors taking the top billing for the episode, in Love and Monsters. This is a welcome change from the norm.
The Impossible Planet
The Doctor and Rose are sucked out of the TARDIS and onto a spaceship, which they find out is being held in orbit around a black hole. The ship has a small crew of humans running it, and cannot explain why the black hole has not swallowed them up. The ship also has a horde of a slave race known as the Ood on board, controlled by the crew. They are drilling into the surface of the nearby ...
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Product details
Publisher
BBC Books
Title
Doctor Who
Author
Simon Messingham
Type
Fiction
ISBN
1846075580
Genre
Science fiction
Edition
Hardback
EAN
9781846075582
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Sebastiene was perhaps once human. He might look like a nineteenth-century nobleman, but in truth he is a ruthless hunter. He likes nothing more than luring difficult opposition to a planet, then hunting them down for sport.
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