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Review of That Time I Nearly Destroyed the World Whilst Looking for a Dress by DanDunn

21 January 2025

This review contains spoilers!

This kind of goes to what I was saying with the Tales of the TARDIS mini-series and just the whole showcasing the companions post travels living these wonderful lives, which is fine, I'm not against that, but I also think it's kind of cheesy that every companion of the Doctor leaves and become these great world leaders, setting up charities or travelling the world fighting injustice. So much so to the point where when I read a story like this, I find it kind of refreshing having the Second Doctor's first companions Ben & Polly leave and just go on to live either very normal and uneventful lives like Ben owning a pub, or very flawed lives like Polly becoming a model and then having a career in music, going from one marriage to another and becoming very vain about her looks. This short story focuses more on Polly as we her life decades after having left the Doctor and all the mistakes she's made and suddenly she's flung through different points in time, encountering different Doctors and changing history to such a cataclysmic extent all to find the perfect dress. The actual plot of the story isn't even that significant, it even has a quick fix solution that's dealt with "offscreen". It's just more about Polly and how much she's changed from the kind and innocent character from her early travels, and it has a wonderfully touching ending that gives a cool nod to the Season 6B whilst having Polly and Ben find one another again and so many years after their adventures and the lives they've lived, finally admit their feelings for one another. A great way to cap off the Past Tense collection of short trips


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