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Counting down to Whomas 2024, one adventure at a time!

Day 9: it's panto time!

MY SCATTERED AND TOTALLY IRRELEVANT NOTES:

This Doctor Who Adventure Calendar story, written by Mark Williams, follows the Twelfth Doctor as he crashes an ongoing pantomime and rescues one of its actors, Ceri, from a group of invading animal-human hybrids. The hybrids are described in a way that evokes Koquillion from The Rescue. However, as a brief story, it struggles to flesh out its characters, setting, or the transformation of the other individuals into various animals. The alien antagonists—beings made of light attempting to invade—also feel underdeveloped. Williams' prose is straightforward, but he doesn't quite capture the distinct voice of the Capaldi Doctor. The story concludes in a rushed and somewhat unsatisfying manner, leaving it feeling incomplete.