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TARDIS Guide

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Released

Thursday, October 12, 2017

Written by

Simon Guerrier

Cover Art by

Tom Webster

Directed by

Lisa Bowerman

Runtime

149 minutes

Time Travel

Future

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

Mining

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Space

Synopsis

The TARDIS takes the Doctor, Ben, Polly and Jamie to a flooded underground town on an alien world. The streets are empty. The houses are bare. Not a trace of life.

The miners working here are vanishing. And it isn’t long before the time-travellers are suspected of being responsible for the disappearances. But even the authorities haven’t fully realised the scale of the problem.

There’s something else on this world. Something dragging people away. And it won’t stop until it’s taken them all.

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I enjoyed this story, don't get me wrong, but it does have one plot point that is so absurd I have to comment.

According to records, 20 people have gone missing over the course of a decade. But that's an error because the column isn't summing properly.

Actually, people have been disappearing at a rate of one every two hours for a decade now. That's over 175,000 people.

Seriously, there are people in charge complicit in hiding the real number, but they have no idea the number is so big. Are we supposed to believe so many people have gone missing and nobody has raised concerns about how many of their friends and loved ones have gone?

175K workers have vanished and the people making the work rotas haven't noticed so many people not showing up?

While it's a cute idea, it relies entirely on treating people strictly as numbers and ignoring the fact that other people would notice the disappearances and act on their concerns.


kevinwho

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Interesting this is the first story I think I’ve done a 180 on and don’t really like anymore feel it’s a tiny bit slow as a two parter it would have been perfect


Rock_Angel

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The problem I have with Simon Guerrier's work is that it often gets a bit too deep and abstract, and it loses me really quickly. I really struggle to follow. I enjoyed the first 3 parts, but the 4th was WAY too abstract for me.

B.


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