Here’s the story discussion thread for The Forgotten graphic novel collection that collects the six-issue Tenth Doctor miniseries from IDW.
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So I read this last night. It’s a decent enough story where the Tenth Doctor and Martha get stuck in the Doctor Who Experience. Kidding aside, it’s an interesting idea that shares some ideas with The Eight Doctors with the Doctor going through his past incarnations to regain his memories. I like all the easter eggs and references scattered throughout. My favorite segments where the Fifth Doctor vs the Judoon and the Eighth Doctor during the Time War recovering the Great Key of Rassilon, back when it was thought that the Eighth Doctor was the one who fought in the Time War and timelocked the War with a de-mat gun. The art isn’t the greatest. Until the the dialogue stated it, I thought it was Liz in the backseat of Bessie, not Jo. I kinda like the idea of the Meta-crisis Doctor becoming the Valeyard, even if ends up being a throw-away line with a different villain that isn’t quite as interesting. Anyway, a worthwhile multi-doctor story. The only thing that seems odd is that the War Doctor is missing, but then again, he wouldn’t exist for another 4-5 years. I rate it at 4/5 stars.
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Read this a long while back and I don’t remember much of it beyond one too many twists with the villain and a really touching scene with Susan towards the end of it.
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Oh I didn’t know we had a Thread for this Story!
I will say I am not a big fan of it, in many ways do I find this one falling into similar Traps like some of the worst Outings of Titan. Yes, it’s fun to have a very celebratory Story from Time to time, get all those beloved Characters in! The framing Device is a nice one and one that does make it much more fun than just say have all those Incarnations in the same room. The Stories itself varied. Some of which I enjoyed more than others, but I must admit I was a bit left cold by it for the most Part, like yeah the Ending with Susan is touching for sure, but also just a bit.. odd? Like I do like the Concept of this Shape-shifter type Character, and it does do for a lot of fun, but at one point it just kinda starts to feel like: “Oh well who else can we throw into the Ring?” I would lie if I didn’t say that I had some Enjoyment with it, but I also would lie if I said I can see why this one has such a high average rating. There are enjoyable Parts to be found here, but when we get to the Point of the Metacrisis Doctor who is now the Valeyard, it all just becomes kinda silly to me.
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