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Review of The Paradox Moon by dema1020

23 February 2025

This review contains spoilers!

So with this story having been built up across the entire anthology of The Wintertime Paradox, I was expecting a little more out of The Paradox Moon.  It's a fun enough conclusion, and nice to have the Thirteenth Doctor in a relatively straightforward adventure that actually makes good use of her character, free from all the baggage and silliness of Chris Chibnall's writing.

Dave Rubben does a pretty good job of the Doctor going up against these sibling beings, survivors of sorts from the Time War trying to put together a TARDIS out of broken pieces from alternate timelines.  It's a pretty cool idea for a story, but it does feel a lot like the box set from the Tenth Doctor adventures where the Doctor meets a bunch of old companions.  All these stories feature relics from the Time War coming back to confront the Doctor.  It was interesting the first time, but I can't say the plot beat hits nearly as hard the fourth time around.

Also, for a story featuring the return of the Shadow Proclamation and the Judoon, two very cool concepts from the show I quite liked, it was pretty disappointing on the whole.  They felt barely used to the point it felt like there wasn't much use in bringing them up to begin with.  It's out of character with the rest of the anthology, which tended to better use Doctor Who references without it feeling as tacked on as it appears to be in The Paradox Moon.


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