Rose Tyler – Derelict Space Sheep

Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon

by Derelict Space Sheep on August 31, 2020 in 42 Word Reviews • 0 Comments

Rose Tyler: The Dimension Cannon

(Big Finish, 2019)

Rose’s quest across the multiverse begins with two wonderfully melancholic stories before losing its way trying to force the intrinsic emotion of the doomsday scenario (particularly when relying on minor characters resurrected from Russell T Davies’ Rose novelisation). Nevertheless a welcome return.

★★★★☆ The Endless Night by Jonathan Morris

★★★★☆ The Flood by Lisa McMullin

★★★☆☆ Ghost Machines by AK Benedict

★★☆☆☆ The Last Party on Earth by Matt Fitton

Doctor Who: The Silver Turk

by Derelict Space Sheep on April 24, 2020 in 42 Word Reviews • 0 Comments

Doctor Who: The Silver Turk

by Marc Platt (Big Finish, 2011)

Mary Shelley encounters badly damaged Cybermen; thus, Frankenstein. The idea would later find its way to television in The Haunting of Villa Diodati (2020), but Mary also echoes Rose Tyler’s empathy from Dalek (2005), the resonances circling back through TV and literature.

Doctor Who: The Price of Paradise

by Derelict Space Sheep on March 5, 2018 in 42 Word Reviews • 0 Comments

Doctor Who: The Price of Paradise

by Colin Brake; audiobook read by Shaun Dingwall (BBC Audio, 2006)

A competent SF story that captures the Tenth Doctor and Rose quite well. Through the Paradise Planet and her guardians, Blake works in a meaningful idea rather than the ‘slapdash make a monster hash of it’ approach of many other Who writers.

Doctor Who: The Stealers of Dreams

by Derelict Space Sheep on June 16, 2016 in 42 Word Reviews • 0 Comments

Doctor Who: The Stealers of Dreams

by Steve Lyons (BBC, 2005)

Fiction is outlawed. The premise certainly has scope (it’s a nice touch that the Doctor, Rose and Jack don’t cotton on to the necessity behind the totalitarianism); but despite what Camille Coduri brings to the audiobook, the story itself feels rather belaboured.