Nobody's Reviews Catalogue

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What it says on the title. Just making a post so I can put links to my reviews in the TG in one place. For the moment I’ll just list the ones I have written, but I’ll organize the post better later.

The First Doctor Era
Season 000 - Adventures with Susan

The Beginning - ★★★½☆
Frayed - ★★★½☆
The Sleeping Blood - ★★★☆☆
The Alchemists - ★½☆☆☆
Quinnis - ★★★½☆
Time and Relative - ★★★★☆

Season 001 - Adventures with Susan, Ian and Barbara

An Unearthly Child - ★★★½☆
The Daleks - ★★★½☆
The Edge of Destruction
Marco Polo
The Keys of Marinus
The Aztecs
The Sensorites
The Reign of Terror

Season 001aa - Adventures with Susan, Ian and Barbara

Farewell, Great Macedon
The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragance
The Masters of Luxor
Domain of the Voord
The Age of Endurance

Season 001ab - adventures with Susan, Ian and Barbara

Here There Be Monsters
The Transit of Venus
The Wanderer
The Flames of Cadiz
The Library of Alexandria
E is for…
The Revenants

Season 001ac - Adventures with Susan, Ian and Barbara

The Destination Wars
The Great White Hurricane
The Invention of Death
The Barbarians and the Samurai
The Phoenicians
Tick-Tock World
Return to Skaro
Last of the Romanovs
For the Glory of Urth
The Hollow Crown

Season 001ad - Adventures with Susan, Ian and Barbara

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
The Witch Hunters
City at World’s End
The Time Travellers

Season 002 - Adventures with Susan, Ian, Barbara, Vicki and Steven

Planet of Giants
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
The Rescue
The Romans
The Web Planet
The Crusade
The Space Museum
The Chase
The Time Meddler

Season 002aa - Susan's aftermath

After the Daleks
Venusian Lullaby

Season 002ab - Aventures with Ian, Barbara and Vicki

The Plotters
Byzantium!
The Eleventh Tiger
The Dark Planet
The Doctor’s Tale
The Fifth Traveller

Season 002ac - Adventures with Ian, Barbara and Vicki

The Rocket Men
The Time Museum
The Sleeping City
Starborn
The Unwinding World
Daybreak
The Temple of Light

Season 003 - Adventures with Vicki, Steven, Katarina, Sara, Dodo, Ben and Polly

Galaxy 4
Mission to the Unknown
The Myth Makers
The Daleks’ Master Plan
The Massacre
The Ark
The Celestial Toymaker
The Gunfighters
The Savages
The War Machines

Season 003aa - Adventures with Vicki and Steven

The Empire of Glass
The Bounty of Ceres
The Ravelli Conspiracy
The Dalek Occupation of Winter
An Ideal World
Entanglement
The Crash of UK-201

Season 003ab - Adventures with Vicki and Steven

Frostfire
The Suffering
Upstairs
The Founding Fathers
Fields of Terror
Across the Darkened City

Season 003ac - Adventures with Steven, Katarina and Sara

Daughter of the Gods
The Destroyers
Home Truths
The Drowned World
The Guardian of the Solar System
The Anachronauts
An Ordinary Life
The Sontarans
Men of War

Season 003ad - Adventures with Steven and Oliver

The Perpetual Bond - Simon Guerrier
The Cold Equations - Simon Guerrier
The First Wave - Simon Guerrier

Season 003ae - Adventueres with Steven and Dodo

The Vardan Invasion of Mirth
The White Ship
Mother Russia
Return of the Rocket Men
The War to End All Wars
The Secrets of Det-Sen
The Y Factor

Season 003af - Adventures with Steven and Dodo

Salvation
Bunker Soldiers
The Man in the Velvet Mask

Season 003ag - Adventures with Dodo

The Outlaws
The Miniaturist
The Demon Song
The Incherton Incident
Fugitive of the Daleks
Living Darkness

Season 004 - Adventures with Ben and Polly

The Smugglers
The Tenth Planet

Season 004aa - Adventures with Ben and Polly

Ten Little Aliens
The Bonfires of Vanities
The Plague of Dreams
The Crumbling Magician
The Locked Room

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Gonna use this topic as a sort of diary and for elaboraring my thoughts on the long game.

I came back to what I call Project: Blue Box yesterday, when I finished reading the Telos Novella “Time and Relative”. I have put a review up in the Guide and you can find a link in the first post, under “Season 000”.

I’m working through Doctor Who chronogically-ish. Meaning I divided the ranges I want to focus on by seasons after putting these stories somewhat in order. It’s not really a rigid chronology but more like the order I think working through it all will be most enjoyable.

And with Time and Relative done, I just finished the solo Susan portion of it (I’m skipping the short trips for this project, although there is two bangers I would put in this era - Indian Summer and The Five O’Clock Shadow). I have thoughts.

It was wildly inconsistent, chronolically wise. Which was to he expected, of course. The Beginning is the first adventure the Doctor and Susan have after leaving Gallifrey, but Frayed was written to be their first time meeting humanity - but they do meet humans in The Beginning. The characters degree of knowledge about Earth vary greatly, even more so if you do add the short trips.

I did read quite a bit of the short stories before changing the project to not include them and make my life easier, and it was weird how many stories Susan was just an afterthought. That’s not how it feels if you include only the Companion Chronicles and the books, tho - mostly because, with the exception of Frayed, ithey are all told from her perspective.

For the most part, it’s a good time to be Susan. The Beginning is nice enough; The Sleeping Blood poses an interesting moral question for her even though I wish it was better executed; she is main piece moving the narrative in The Alchemists (except she is not); Quinnis puts her in an engaging horror thriller and Time and Relative is a fantastic character piece.

She does not feature that much in Frayed, but it’s a good novel nonetheless. From a character-wise point of view, it’s a really good first perspective on how the Doctor is viewed by outsiders.

It’s also an era extremely connected to Earth and humanity - to a degree I find weird if, again, you include the short trips. Almost every single story is set on Earth or feature humans, it almost feels like the TARDIS can’t travel to another planets. Which I find stupid. The authors are so focused on setting up them wanting to stay in London for the status quo of An Unearthly Child that we almost never get that wonder of visiting other places. There is a bit of a time skip between Frayed and The Sleeping Blood in which Susan mentions they have been travelling for quite some time already that I think could fit some more high sci-fi tales.

I do have written reviews for The Alchemists and Quinnis, but I think I may have not translated them yet. I’l post them whenever I do. Next is Classic Who season one.

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What Hunters of Earth from the Destiny of the Doctor miniseries? It takes place once the Doctor and Susan are at Coal Hill, but before An Unearthly Child. I also believe the River story An Unearthly Woman takes place before the show.

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Because it’s part of a longer storyline, I’ll listen to it when I reach the most recent Doctor of that. So, Eleven. I’m probably gonna do the same for every Doctor Who event, as if they’re their own special season.

As for River I’ll only add the spin-offs when I feel they become relevant in the chronology; for River it’s after the Library.

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I finally translated the missing reviews from the solo Susan and the First Doctor adventures - The Alchemists and Quinnis.

The review I wrote for the Alchemists is one I’m very proud of, in my humble opinion the best I’ve ever written so far alongside The Beginning. So I’m happy to finally be sharing it here in the Guide.

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