More than anything else, EarthWorld is a delight to read. The plot is interesting, the characters are compelling, and it balances humour and tragedy very well.

I skipped Escape Velocity so this is my first Anji book and safe to say I'm deeply attached (and not just because she's from Yorkshire). Fitz, too, was well written, in that yes he was cringe and kinda sucked, but I say that in a mostly affectionate way, as opposed to hoping he gets shot by the next alien

I'd question if Lance Parkin has ever encountered Doctor Who before now, but unfortunately I know that to be false. Still, I have to wonder if he paid attention.

The plot is mostly dull and the couple of interesting scenes don't make up for it. There is a consistently weird attitude towards the teenage girl characters. The ending is incredibly stupid and rushed. The Doctor is, for a reason I cannot fathom, described as "Thatcherism personified".

Bad book. Miranda I wish you'd been written in something better

Reset marks the third Torchwood episode in which the Black woman has something horrific done to her body without her consent. It's also, in terms of plot, fine?, I guess? The main draw is "Martha Jones is here", which, I'm going to be honest, absolutely worked on me. Martha Jones is here! Shame about everything else

The Daleks' Master Plan is almost a rarity in Long Classic Who Serials, as in, it's one that deserves the runtime. A 12-part story would be intimidating under any circumstances, especially one where 3/4s of it is lost, but by god does this serial pretty much make it. We've got strong acting from the main cast, a solid storyline, and some delightfully silly looking aliens. We do also have yellowface, unfortunately, because this is 60s Doctor Who

Adam is another solid episode! Adam himself was a pretty decent monster-of-the-week, but where it stood out was the effects it had on the team. Mostly bad effects, of course, although fair play for all his antagonistic nature he did objectively fix Owen

I really liked this episode! You do have to look past some truly godawful CGI at the emotional climax of the episode, but all in all it's just very well done, which you can't often say about a Torchwood episode

Pretty solid episode, if a bit forgettable. Torchwood as a show seems to forget about its ensemble, so even when we have episodes focusing on one of them (in this case, Toshiko), they still feel underdeveloped

An interesting idea and exploration of what it means to be human when you aren't, seen through the eyes of one woman caught up in a war beyond any of her imagining. The thing is, between Beth and Lisa, 100% of the Black female characters on Torchwood have had their bodies twisted into horrific new images without their knowledge or consent, and both are killed - by Torchwood! - at the end of the episode. That's a terrible track record

I mean. It was fine? I don't especially care for historicals, I'm a bit of a biased source. Vicki's exit was stupid and weakly written

This is a STRONG book. Like there's a difference between "good Doctor Who" and "good book" that certain EDAs fall foul of, but not this one. The Turing Test is a really good book.

The three narrators work well, each showing a different facet of the newly-memoryless Doctor, definitely helped along by the fact that as a queer computer scientist I am always sad about Alan Turing. The ending was tragic. Paul Leonard only used the word "bawled" once, which I think is a new record for him.

Just. what a good book