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TARDIS Guide

Overview

Released

Thursday, July 14, 2022

Written by

Rona Munro

Pages

177

Time Travel

Past

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

LGBTQA+

Story Arc (Potential Spoilers!)

Missy's Redemption

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Aberdeen, Earth, Scotland

Synopsis

"To protect a muddy little hillside, you doomed your whole world!"

The Doctor takes Bill and Nardole back to 2nd century Scotland to learn the fate of the 'lost' Ninth Legion of the Imperial Roman Army. 5,000 soldiers vanished without explanation - how?

The search for the truth leads the Doctor and his friends into a deadly mystery. Who is the Guardian of the Gate? What nightmare creature roams the wildlands, darkening the sky and destroying all in its path? A threat from another dimension has been unleashed on the Earth, and only a terrible sacrifice can put things right...

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Still far from the strongest Doctor Who story, but the Target novelisation affords Rona Munro some added depth for the Ninth Legion characters. We get more of Kar's backstory, and the Picts and Legion's attempts to guard the portal, which means their decision to step through the portal to keep the titular monster at bay has more impact.

Bill comes across as weirdly confrontational in the way she's described in the text, particularly at the beginning, when challenging the Doctor's views on what happened to the missing Ninth Legion. Overall, however, this story works much  better in prose than it did as a TV episode.

 


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