The final story, which actually gave the collection its title.

And it's a strong social fiction with a critique of the oligarchy, moral questions of the ethics of creating clones of oneself in order to transfer one's consciousness into these bodies. And you will say to me: ‘Oh, come on, you're making it sound like these are super fresh topics for 2016’. And yeah, it's not like George Mann is breaking new ground in science fiction, even within the Doctor Who comics, something similar happened in the IDW story Body Snatched in the Doctor Who ongoing (2011). But Mann works very well with these concepts and skilfully draws them into the overall plot of the miniseries. He shows how the Doctor reacts to an oligarchy that believes it has every right to replace the clones' consciousness with its own, and on the other hand, to the clones themselves, who managed to regain their own selves and then became supporters of radical ideas.

And in the middle of this is Josie, who turns out to be a kind of clone herself - a living picture (which she painted herself a couple of episodes ago). And now the slightly off-the-wall rich woman who was used to paint the portrait wants Josie's body back, because she considers her to be her property (although legally she is not, even as a portrait).

And the Doctor, who finds out that Josie has been lying to him about being human. But he still doesn't leave her and stands up for her, because he can't leave his friend

I honestly did not expect such a level of plot, story and climax when I first started reading this series.

In addition to the strong plot, a nice bonus is the very, very ending, when it turns out that it was Twelve and Clara who bought Josie from the sale of the ‘gone mad’ collection after her death, but before her resurrection in the body of a clone. And it was the Twelfth who brought Josie to the mansion and slipped a note into a copy of Jane Eyre to support the Eighth Doctor (but it's possible that he was partly motivated by the paradox, hehe).

This review is a translation of a part of my Ukrainian-language text, the original can be found here: https://www.mzut-podcast.com/post/stari-doktory-novi-pryhody