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This is my first rodeo with Fitz. I guess he’s fine?!
Steve Cole’s We Can’t Stop What’s Coming strands the Eighth Doctor, Fitz, and Trix on a barren rock where Neanderthals are hunted by accountants forced into corporate “team-building.” With Fitz’s sardonic narration and the Doctor’s righteous fury, it builds to a grim twist: the hunters are killing their own ancestors, erasing themselves in the process. Atmospheric and morbid, though its companions feel underdeveloped and its corporate conspiracy a little too hazy.
Here’s my spoilery review for those who fancy a read. Thanks!
I like the idea of this one - the Time War is coming, and nothing Doctor Who can do will change that.
I hold something of a fondness for the story as well, given I got it signed.
This ones okay. I bought the storybook for this, and Fitz and the Doctor are probably the best part. It can be tricky to do first person and I think Fitz’s bits are better than Jakartas. But it’s a perfectly fine short story.
A solidly fun story, with an interesting twist, and great execution.
While the first person narration here marks this story down a little in my book, the idea of people unknowingly hunting their own ancestors, as a corporate entity wants to use that paradox as a bomb, is such a Doctor Who idea in the best way possible.
As my first exposure to Fitz and Trix as well, this story did a solid job characterizing each of them. I got enough of what they were both about without feeling lost at all, and somewhat interested me enough to want to know more about them both. Not enough to seek it out especially, but still just enough.
I also love the mini thematic arc between The Slyther of Shoreditch, this story, and Decoy (haven’t read further as I write this, so not sure if it continues), all being related to the time war in some way. Slyther having discussion of the first shots fired, this being about the inevitability of a temporal war occurring, and Decoy being fully in the time war.
The ending did almost feel a little rushed, but the atmosphere and sense of sense of dread you’re left with, made it still work enough for me.
Really enjoyed this one. First story I’ve read with Trix but I got the broad strokes of her. Fitz I already love and I thought Eight came across well. The story was fun although the first person narration switching between two different characters was a bit disorientating. Liked the hints towards this being linked to the Time War (a concept I usually don’t gel with) as it was playfully ambiguous.
I had not known who Fitz was, so I had to look him up. I liked the story, I thought it was interesting as we build from where the last one ended. The last story The Doctor was warned the Time War as coming, and here he knows that he won’t be able to save everyone involved.
