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The Ninth Doctor Adventures 4.3                      


Once again the Powell estate is plagued with something ‘other’, this time an entity that works on you true feelings - the things you don’t say or do and dares you to do them. 


It does feel a bit similar to the last story, but with the same setting and cast, its probably going to. But with Chris, Billie and Camile each doing a great job, its hard to complain about. I said for a while that the Ninth could do with a companion and this feels more in line with his Doctor.


So the idea here is that all the things you want to say or do, the entity dares you to and then you do. Its a bit like where people can’t lie and start telling the truth, the stuff they really think but don’t say. It does come to a head when Rose says stuff to her mum, we don’t hear what she says but it’s not good, and you wonder whether their relationship will ever recover.


There was a line spoken by Rose early on that didn’t feel right, but a minor thing. I think I feel these should be just like there TV series, rather than the expanded universe.


As with the tv episode ‘Dalek’ Rose stops the Doctor from going too far, and there is a bit about how the Doctor is glad she there etc.  I’m not one for excessively twee sentinmentality but, in thinking about the Doctors actions during ‘The Waters Of Mars’, I have to concede it kind of fits in with events.


There are are few continuity references, nothing overly shoehorned in but enough to place it into the timeline.


Overall an enjoyable tale.


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