Review: Another disappointment from this line
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 4, 2013
I'm not a massive fan of the Troughton era (you've seen one base-under-siege story, here's five more!), but this is another story that feels really out of place for the era it's supposed to be in. Author Michael Scott does get the Doctor and Jamie a lot better than Colfer got the Doctor and Susan in the previous one of these, but appearances of weirdly misplaced elements (specifically a certain black-clothed Time Lord) seems way too obvious as an "edgy" way to attack the era. I will give Scott some credit for specifically referencing mercury in his adventure though, as mercury's a very intrinsic material of early Who, specifically in relation to Who writer David Whitaker.