I can't even believe I bothered to finish this, it was so unbelievably dull. The setting is interesting enough, but suffered from character bloat and NONE of the characters were as endearing as the author was probably hoping they were, with climactic scenes and plot twists that felt unearned and hollow.

The Doctor himself was mostly written competently, but half the time felt like a pull-string doll repeating old lines. This is definitely a story that would have benefited from a companion like Donna-- Donna in a mega-mall being attacked by Autons would have been brilliant.

Although initially disappointed that this short story had nothing to do with Martha Jones and her family, I was pleasantly surprised by just how brain-bendingly high concept this was! Very fun read and interesting premise!

Utterly fantastic. I cannot believe the line "You don't need someone to stop you, you need someone to keep you going." was from such a hard to find comic and it was never actually in the TV show itself. Peak fiction.

I always love vignettes of the Doctor doing mundane, everyday things, so the scenes where he goes grocery shopping and sits in at a business meeting were pretty fun. It's plot is pretty similar to Daleks Take Manhattan & Evolution of The Daleks but in an even more corporate setting. I kind of liked the companion for this, or at least I liked the IDEA of this companion, who's just a middle aged joe shmoe I.T. guy. Reminded me a bit of Swansea from Mouthwashing LOL. The whole plot with the internet was pretty confusing and nonsensical, and it was just plain boring honestly.

Good quote from this: The Doctor thought for a moment. ‘I don’t think you can
really call the internet “normal”, but yes – as close as it ever
gets.'

the author's barely disguised pregnancy fetish

ten is really cute in this <3