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TARDIS Guide

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Released

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Written by

Jacqueline Rayner

Pages

248

Time Travel

Future

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Museum of the Last Ones

Synopsis

The Doctor and Martha go in search of a real live dodo, and are transported by the TARDIS to the mysterious Museum of the Last Ones. There in the Earth section, they discover every extinct creature up to the present day, all still alive and in Suspended animation.

Preservation is the museum's only job - collecting the last of every endangered species from all over the universe. But exhibits are going missing...

Can the Doctor solve the mystery before the museum's curator adds the last of the Time Lords to her collection?

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A fun (relatively) low-stress adventure. The Doctor and Martha play I-Spy in real life while also looking for poachers from space. This was just a solid Doctor and Martha adventure. It was basically like if season 3 had a more low-stakes episode à la Unicorn and the Wasp. There were a few more serious moments as well, and those were great. Overall this was an enjoyable read!


This book is fine. It has a decent premise, fun set-pieces, good ideas, flashes of great character work, and is very silly. I enjoyed myself thoroughly while reading it. The problem is is that beyond the surface there just isn't much going on in it. It's a fun Doctor Who adventure and nothing else. The most damning part of it all is I forgot I'd even read it. It just left my brain until I was checking my bookshelf and went "Oh yeah that one".

So it's fine. If you read it you'll probably have fun with it, but don't go rushing out to grab a copy.


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On paper, The Last Dodo's premise of an android who collects the last of every species and preserves them in a museum is an interesting one. In this book, however, it doesn't receive the best execution. There's some fun scenes, such as when a ton of the museum's exhibits end up terrorising people on Earth, but it could have been faster paced, and it doesn't always make sense (I'm still not sure why the Doctor says the creatures are not back in their own times when they're transported outside the museum because the museum doesn't have time travel, when it must have time travel capabilities to obtain the last of each species in the first place). 

It's not a bad Doctor Who book, but it's not the best either. It's a wholly average affair.


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