Forever Autumn
Dec. 1st, 2007 09:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethSo I read the Doctor Who book 'Forever Autumn'.
The titles are really rather random. I mean 'last dodo' makes sense, but mostly they're like an interesting couple of words on a story that doesn't fit.
I didn't like it as much. It's like... Halloween stories: there's a time and a place. And also, they're a bit easy, done straight up. More like 'what if scary things were scary!' than, I don't know, what if vacuum cleaners were scary and eating you, which I think has been a DW plot for the 7th Doctor. But anyways, it's like, the really easy way.
I like the Buffy Halloween episodes because they weren't about Halloween, they were about the main characters, sort of turned inside out so we could see what they weren't or what they were really scared of. But this book is all action and no psychology. Oh, and also lots of kids. The books have more helpful kid sidekicks in than is typical in episodes (thank goodness).
And the whole thing was so standard it felt like a refugee from another show, really. I mean, kids dig up book and do chants to raise demons... that's not a Doctor Who plot. Sure, it could be a Carrionite or Daemon thing where it's really Sufficiently Advanced Technology or whatever, but really, it's just a boring cliché. And we don't find out what the Doctor or Martha are specifically scared of, so what's the point of having a scary things story? Unless it's that they're scared of kids getting hurt. Which, duh.
I liked the one with the Daemons because it's really about the Master manipulating the fears and dirty little secrets of small rural Britain more than it is about a big furry demony thing. And the Shakespeare thing had, well, Shakespeare. But this just has a lot of running around and things trying to eat them. Bored now.
I hate it when I run out of books. Granted, I still have a few hundred (or thousand maybe) unread inherited ancient random SF stories around, but they're not the books I wants right now, so I am Run Out. *sulk*
oh well. could watch DVDs instead then.
The titles are really rather random. I mean 'last dodo' makes sense, but mostly they're like an interesting couple of words on a story that doesn't fit.
I didn't like it as much. It's like... Halloween stories: there's a time and a place. And also, they're a bit easy, done straight up. More like 'what if scary things were scary!' than, I don't know, what if vacuum cleaners were scary and eating you, which I think has been a DW plot for the 7th Doctor. But anyways, it's like, the really easy way.
I like the Buffy Halloween episodes because they weren't about Halloween, they were about the main characters, sort of turned inside out so we could see what they weren't or what they were really scared of. But this book is all action and no psychology. Oh, and also lots of kids. The books have more helpful kid sidekicks in than is typical in episodes (thank goodness).
And the whole thing was so standard it felt like a refugee from another show, really. I mean, kids dig up book and do chants to raise demons... that's not a Doctor Who plot. Sure, it could be a Carrionite or Daemon thing where it's really Sufficiently Advanced Technology or whatever, but really, it's just a boring cliché. And we don't find out what the Doctor or Martha are specifically scared of, so what's the point of having a scary things story? Unless it's that they're scared of kids getting hurt. Which, duh.
I liked the one with the Daemons because it's really about the Master manipulating the fears and dirty little secrets of small rural Britain more than it is about a big furry demony thing. And the Shakespeare thing had, well, Shakespeare. But this just has a lot of running around and things trying to eat them. Bored now.
I hate it when I run out of books. Granted, I still have a few hundred (or thousand maybe) unread inherited ancient random SF stories around, but they're not the books I wants right now, so I am Run Out. *sulk*
oh well. could watch DVDs instead then.