Tag: Silurians

The Black Archive #39: The Silurians

The Black Archive #39: The Silurians

by Robert Smith? (Obverse Books, 2020)

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A wide-ranging, clearly written analysis that recasts The Silurians’ apparent failings as strengths and offers, by considering aspects of the serial from a rational, scientific standpoint and giving them a societal context, something of a reappraisal of the Third Doctor more broadly.

 

 

Doctor Who: The Silurian Candidate

Doctor Who: The Silurian Candidate

by Matthew J. Elliott (Big Finish, 2017)

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A rehash of the usual ‘humans versus Silurians’ ethical quandary, offering little new and debased still further by the Silurians acting (and sounding) like Daleks and also a ‘strewth, bloody awful’ excuse for an Australian character. What humour there is falls flat.

 

 

Dr. Eleventh

Dr. Eleventh

by Adam Hargreaves (BBC, 2017)

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Hargreaves, in his usual clumsy way, has Matt Smith’s Doctor and River Song run a pointless gamut of monsters… but can only think of three (Zygons, Silurians, Weeping Angels) before resorting to snakes and spiders! The ending is as tiresome as ever.

 

 

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