Review of A Big Hand for the Doctor by hallieday
17 November 2024
This review contains spoilers
The First Doctor #16
'A Big Hand for the Doctor' (2013) from 11 Doctors, 11 Stories.
Despite The Doctor's inner-monologue being more in line with the modern incarnations and rather out of character, I still enjoyed having a very Doctor-focused story here, and the Peter Pan-influenced plot is plenty fun. The fact that the hand that The First Doctor has in his whole televised run is a replacement one that's slightly too big is an amusing concept, and The Doctor evaporating all of the Space Pirates at the end is so brutal despite their crimes. Nice to see this level of darkness in a children's story.