The Fractures

Feels straight out of season 8, not just in terms of the timeline with the Coal Hill stuff, but also the doctor’s characterisation. The story itself I think is a bit on the worse side but it’s still solid, but the main thing is I feel this could fit very easily into a season 8 rewatch, setting up 12’s involvement with UNIT, hinting towards the actions Clara takes in Dark Water, and the character stuff for 12 is on point for his arc that season trying to figure out what type of man he is.

👍🏼= GOOD!

Thworping through time and space, one adventure at a time!

Kate Lethbridge-Stewart arrives here for her comic book debut, together with UNIT. It's an Earth-bound adventure, with some weird glowing ribbon aliens causing havoc as Clara tries to return to her Coal Hill School life. The first issue slowly builds up the tension and features some fairly basic character moments.

The aliens are the Fractures, a pretty typical New Who alien from another dimension with a creepy presence. They're here to correct a dimensional anomaly.

The Doctor is doctoring as expected, Clara is pretty annoying, and Lisa and her family aren't very interesting either (though they are used to exploring pivotal emotional baggage).

The idea of a multiverse is central to the narrative, as is a dimensional portal reverse-engineered from the one used by UNIT in Series 2.

Clara was fencing the last time we saw her, and now she's driving a double-decker bus. The action scene with the bus and the TARDIS is pretty cool.

This narrative is quite discursive, with the Fractured themselves barely making an appearance or exerting any influence. In the end, the Doctor decides to allow the alternate Paul to stay, thus putting his own life at risk instead. Let's see where this is headed.