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The Eighth Doctor adventures Cass part 3/4                                



There was some interesting stuff at the end of Vespertine, Alex ‘saw’ The Doctor on the ship with Bliss, and it wasn’t the Doctor’s future. The Doctors', or even the whole universes timeline is wrong.

The starts with a bang, literally, as there’s an explosion and you may wonder if you’ve accidentally skipped to part two, but no. The Doctor, Alex and Cass are interrogated and accused of destroying an ancient monument, except that when they first arrived the rest of this world - its people - didn’t exist…

I really enjoyed part one. Its told in flashback as, as the each of the TARDIS crew is interviewed they retell how they came to be here. The Daleks had a factory set up, and  also had a battle TARDIS and planned to change time. Their involvement causing the explosion.

So with this set being a little removed from the Time War we’re now getting to experience some of it. And for me there’s an element of time in it, not just a bit of fighting. The mystery of what’s happening, slowly building up a picture and putting the pieces together makes for a gripping adventure.

Part 2, 

Its slightly spoilery, but they’ve been thrown back in time a year, the inhabitance have never heard of the time war or Daleks, so trying to persuade them the threat is coming isn’t easy. Also there’s a paradox at work, this society was created by the explosion. 

The fact that, if the Doctor succeeds in stopping the Daleks plan, it will mean that these people will have never existed. Though there are conversations about it, they seem to accept it a little too easily - if it was me I’d be fighting for it. I’m sure that in these modern days of Doctor Who, they’d be a way to allow them to continue to exist and to stop the Daleks. So it is nice (and ties in to the War Doctors stance) that it doesn’t happen they cease to have existed.

Cass: I’m still not sure about. She’s  a bit of a cross between Missy and Riversong in that she’s  more worldwide and cocky, but doesn’t feel like she’s earned it. And as with C’riss, when he joined, I’m not so familiar with the voice so I don’t always realise it's her.

A good first part not go great second, but I really liked the premise.

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