I don't even know what to tell you here... Was it not terrible? I'll probably say it wasn't terrible. Williamson's drawing is very so-so, especially when it comes to drawing faces, if it's the Fourth Doctor's or Sarah Jane's face, it's a horror and you can see that the artist drew them from photos without any chance of stylisation, but the situation with the original characters is no better.

From something so good... The plot is not bad, I liked the basis on ancient Greek legends, all these cyclopes and the appearance of the Gorgon Medusa (which does not fit in with the plot of Eye of the Gorgon from The Sarah Jane Adventures, but we are not used to it), but the appearance of Zeus was, of course, a bit too much. It's not that he's a god here, but rather an alien who inspired the Greeks to Zeus and at the same time locked Medusa in the caves of Greece (as if there were no other places in the universe to lock up criminals). In general, it's not a bad story, I wouldn't say I'd praise it as a story about the Eighth, but I don't want to tear it apart either, because it does its unpretentious job.

Although I have a personal problem with the portrayal of Medusa Gorgon, who is simply a bloodthirsty snake who wants to kill everyone. I, on the other hand, support the perception of Medusa's story as a story about accusing a victim of sexual violence and further demonising a woman because of her natural desire for revenge against her rapist. And I'm of the feminist persuasion, so I always have a little problem with stories where Medusa is just a monster who wants blood for blood's sake and kills because why not.

In general, I honestly wouldn't recommend reading this series. The plot is not bad, but it doesn't balance the scales with the bad art, which ruins the whole experience. So it's better to avoid it.

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