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Tag: Great Britain

I don’t really mind [Doctor Who’s] The Timeless Child [with caveats]

The Timeless Child was a major lore shift towards the end of the newer Doctor Who and one that has sparked numerous complaints that are caught up in stacks of other complaints about the era [and one which leads to some actually awful suggestions for fixing: not least of which includes a entire retcon of two of the past three doctors]. However, I don’t actually mind…parts of it.

[Book] One Word Kill, by Mark Lawrence

The trippy and questionable science at the surface of One Word Kill barely detracts from or adds to the novel’s fairly stereotypical coming-of-age style story. Not an astounding work but a fair one with its moments. If only it felt more like itself.

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