Reviews

Doctor Who: The Edge of Destruction by Nigel Robinson

the_gob's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

An odd adventure for the Doctor and his crew, this one. 

parasolofdoom's review against another edition

The Edge of Destruction is one of my favorite stories of the First Doctor era and this novelization of it... was fine. I do prefer Target novelizations that add to and fill out stories a bit more, like the modern series ones do. This was a pretty beat for beat transcription with maybe an extra scene or so of exploring the TARDIS but nothing that added materially to the narrative.

kmt75's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

nwhyte's review

http://nhw.livejournal.com/1015057.html[return][return]Robinson has taken a two-episode story and padded it out with some interesting new material of Ian and Barbara exploring the depths of the Tardis. Unfortunately, Robinson's own prose style is thunderously bad in places. For completists only.

ianbanks's review

3.0

Competent novelisation of two episodes of the firs season. Written as "bottle" episodes, Mr Robinson expands them neatly, using information gleaned from episodes yet to be written and lore that was only hinted at in the series up till this point to flesh out a very basic story.

jazzab1971's review

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

octavia_cade's review

3.0

Granted, this is only the third of the novelisations I've read thus far, but it's far and away the best of them, adding a lot of extra material that just wasn't in the episode. That extra material doesn't change the plot much, but provides extra creepy occurrences of the TARDIS trying to communicate with its inhabitants. It takes them a while to catch on - it's Barbara who does so first, and this is a particularly good story for her characterisation - and it's easy to picture the TARDIS shaking its big blue head, thinking "How much more do I have to do to spoonfeed you idiots?!"

So, quite entertaining. And the text zips along nicely and at pace, which is always enjoyable.

secrethistory's review against another edition

3.0

I read the audiobook version, and I liked it all right. The narrator was wonderful, but there were a few sound glitches (though this could have just been on my end I suppose). The writing is slightly repetitive--the audiobook is about three times as long as the entire two episode story, so it was bound to repeat itself. Still, it was very entertaining, as was the episode. For those of you like me, who love exploring the TARDIS, this is the book/episode for you. It takes place entirely on the TARDIS (probably due to budget reasons) and explores some of the inner workings and myriad rooms. It's not the most amazing Doctor Who story out there, by any means, but I liked it.