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A review by caedocyon
Doctor Who: The Taking of Planet 5 by Simon Bucher-Jones, Mark Clapham
3.0
Not bad considering this is an officially-sanctioned and entirely shameless Doctor Who/Lovecraft crossover.
My main complaint is that I just finished [b:Doctor Who: Interference - Book One|882649|Doctor Who Interference - Book One|Lawrence Miles|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1179170543s/882649.jpg|867926], which is queer-ly casual about gender. For instance, it contains this slightly infamous exchange:
‘Can I ask you something personal?’ he [the Doctor] said.
I.M. Foreman nodded. ‘I warn you, though. If it’s anything to do with how I got this body, the details are going to be messy. You’ve never been a woman, have you?’
‘I’m not sure I’ve ever even been a man. That’s not what I was going to ask.’
In Taking of Planet Five on the other hand, every alien has a somehow obvious and ineffable binary gender, even the Elder Things! Even the fucking TARDISes!!! There is absolutely no excuse for giving a bunch of spacetime machines human binary genders and a herd/harem structure with a dominant "bull." WHY.
My main complaint is that I just finished [b:Doctor Who: Interference - Book One|882649|Doctor Who Interference - Book One|Lawrence Miles|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1179170543s/882649.jpg|867926], which is queer-ly casual about gender. For instance, it contains this slightly infamous exchange:
‘Can I ask you something personal?’ he [the Doctor] said.
I.M. Foreman nodded. ‘I warn you, though. If it’s anything to do with how I got this body, the details are going to be messy. You’ve never been a woman, have you?’
‘I’m not sure I’ve ever even been a man. That’s not what I was going to ask.’
In Taking of Planet Five on the other hand, every alien has a somehow obvious and ineffable binary gender, even the Elder Things! Even the fucking TARDISes!!! There is absolutely no excuse for giving a bunch of spacetime machines human binary genders and a herd/harem structure with a dominant "bull." WHY.