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Thursday, November 5, 2020

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Steven Moffat

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19

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Earth

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An excellent story, which across its extremely short number of pages manages to go to a great number of places emotionally and intellectually. The fact Moffat gave up his time to write something so humane, so sincere, so human for charity is a great credit to him.  It’s not a throwaway story. It is a solid and surprising idea.


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This is Moffat at his best. A short, sweet story that manages to deliver a very human, emotional impact. I'm sure all of us on this forum are deep, devoted Doctor Who fans who have a connection to the show, books, audios, or whatever else that runs deeper than the average person and this story reminds me of why I love it and why the Doctor is a hero. At 19 pages and free to read, I think every fan should give it a read x


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Now I’m not normally a Moffat fanboy. I actually think his writing is pretty hit or miss. But in 19 pages Moffat made me cry reading a 13th Doctor story. He pulls out all the stops doing it; this is the most Moffat has ever Moffatted, but this was really good.


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DOCTOR: I can’t be doing with all that sleeping, there’s too many planets. What if you sleep and miss a whole planet. Nightmare, yeah?

— Thirteenth Doctor, The Terror of the Umpty Ums