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The Ninth Doctor Adventures 4.5


Once again its the Powell Estate, this time the Doctor and Rose discove local historical figures are suddenly appearing.


Though I would prefer something a bit more sci fi/spacey I’ll take what I can get. Its the Ninth and Rose. With Camile Caduri as Jackie Tyler its a not a bad combination.


So Jackie has Edith Nesbit in her living room, writer of Five Children and It etc. also quite the protester, filling up the space with placards. So what is going on.


This is by no means a deep or complex adventure. Leaning more to the comedy side of things. The people from the past are in no way phased by there current situation, the fact that they can remember when they died lead the Doctor to suspect that there’s something else behind it.


It has all the classic hallmarks of the mid ninth Doctor and Rose TV series, Though I do feel that some of the relationship is a little clunky. As with all the other past Doctors, it takes a little time to get back into gelling like they used to. 


There’s a nice moment with the Doctor admitting he doesn’t actually know what’s going on but just says suff to die people hope. 


There is Rose’s one time baby sitter, whose deceased lover comes back from the dead. When he died, being gay was still something you kept quite about, its a different world in 2006. Also there’s the fact that the people coming back are getting nearer to todays time, meaning Roses father could be next.


So there is a serious side to it, and stuff that could have been developed more, though with Fathers Day, this preludes it.


I wasn’t bowled over by it, enjoyable yes, but not outstanding. It isn’t quite over at the end of the episode, so there’s more to come but this is more of a lead into it.


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