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The wrong Doctor and UNIT vs. the alien invaders..., Janv. 12 2001
The Doctor steers the TARDIS back to Earth, and arrives some ten years earlier than intended - in the 1970s. This was the time when his third incarnation had been exiled and later made his base of operations, and when many aliens sought to invade Earth. Now in his fifth incarnation, the Doctor find himself, along with companions Tegan and Turlough, drawn into the UNIT investigation of strange occurrences in the coastal resort of Tayborough Sands, which turns out to be quite gruesome...Setting a Fifth Doctor story in the milieu more associated with is third incarnation is, perhaps, a little risky - on the printed page, the specific incarnation of the Doctor can be hard to maintain plainly in the mind of the reader, so surrounding him with events and characters that evoke a different incarnation can make this even more difficult. Then there are continuity problems: if this Doctor meets people he knows earlier in time than when he has otherwise met them, the writer has to include reasons why these encounters aren't remembered. This is the problem I have with 'Deep Blue' - the story that Mark Morris is telling here gets swamped by all the things he needs to do to maintain continuity, and the reader has to keep reminding hi/herself that when the Doctor is talking to the Brigadier, Yates or Benton that this is the Fifth Doctor. While Mr. Morris doesn't do a bad job at this, the book would have been better had it been a Third Doctor or if the UNIT elements had been from some time other than that strongly associated with the Third. Also, the nature of the alien invasion depicted herein is, perhaps, not for those with weak stomachs...
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