Review for the Doctor Who (audio)book "The Clockwise Man" (AKA "Girl in the Fireplace Lite")

[kilodalton]

I know that I usually put this stuff under SOME kind of a cut, but this time ... I just can't. I just kind of need to shout this from the e-rooftop.

* Historical episode
* European royalty
* Clockwork killers
* Creepy harlequin masks
* Getting stuck (briefly) on the slow path
* Jokes about "winding you up" etc

The big differences being ... ya know ... the

Comments

[kilodalton]

What's the worst thing about this, is that he completely gets away with it.

I chock it up to fanboys living in their mother's basements. GitF was exactly what they WANTED to see - damn characterization, and damn the fact it's a dual rip-off of this and The Time Traveller's Wife.

(Seriously, what did he do? Rip up copies of The Clockwise Man and the Time Traveller's Wife, and pick up the pages at random up off the floor to see how he could best marry them?)

as opposed to the subtle influence from Phillip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' that RTD did in Army of Ghosts/Doomsday

I'm currently writing (have been for a year now ... lol it's slow-going) a meta on the similarities between Doomsday and the main romance in Final Fantasy X - which preceded both Doomsday as well as His Dark Materials. The similarities are frankly a bit scary and make me wonder if RTD was a closet video game addict XD

[kilodalton]

You're welcome - it was pretty shocking to me, and Moffat rarely shocks me anymore =P

[zazie11]

If I remember correctly, Moffatt supposedly "wrote" his episode with Eccleston in mind - does anyone know more about that? That would bring the parallels even closer.

*shakes head*

[kilodalton]

I've heard that too, but haven't been able to source it. It makes complete sense though.

**shakes head along with you**

[annissag]

I've heard this too, though I can't imagine Nine in GITF. It takes OOC to a whole new level.

[zazie11]

... I can't imagine Nine in GITF. It takes OOC to a whole new level.

Yeah, my thoughts, exactly. Nine would not - I repeat, WOULD NOT - leave Rose behind, knowing the likelihood he couldn't return. If anything, Rose would've gone with him ... leading to all manner of Nine/Rose saddle-sharing UST, lol. Reinette, who?

Rose was ready to go down fighting with him against the Gelth. I can't believe he'd ditch her (or Mickey).

[develish1]

hmm, I don't have this one, guess I'd better acquire a copy

[kilodalton]

It wasn't a bad little story!! Made all the better by my not-so-sneaking-suspicion that Moffat completely ripped it off less than a year later.

[rosaxx50]

My only thought about this is lol @ Moffat. Rly?

[kilodalton]

... basically XD