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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2021 1:54:27 GMT
Interesting you note the difference in the tone, I think The Freefall Warriors was intended as a backdoor pilot for the titular race team. I do like the bait-and-switch in the arcade at the beginning with the Doctor, but it's not really his story. He's much more a passenger here than the next story, Junkyard Demon. The Warriors show up again in the backup stories for Captain Britain where their backgrounds are rounded out, but this is the last we see of them alongside the TARDIS.
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Post by newt5996 on Jul 18, 2021 14:49:11 GMT
Interesting you note the difference in the tone, I think The Freefall Warriors was intended as a backdoor pilot for the titular race team. I do like the bait-and-switch in the arcade at the beginning with the Doctor, but it's not really his story. He's much more a passenger here than the next story, Junkyard Demon. The Warriors show up again in the backup stories for Captain Britain where their backgrounds are rounded out, but this is the last we see of them alongside the TARDIS. It's such a weird little difference in tone. Like the arcade stuff is fun and like the only thing really to enjoy and I know I'm getting very close to the end of his comic run, considering the release dates were getting ever so close to Davison's debut. I don't even think it works as a backdoor pilot as the race team is just there. Like I don't remember if they even get names. Definitely the weakest of the Dragon's Claw bindup, unless Junkyard Demon and The Neutron Knights end up being terrible.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2021 23:34:38 GMT
Interesting you note the difference in the tone, I think The Freefall Warriors was intended as a backdoor pilot for the titular race team. I do like the bait-and-switch in the arcade at the beginning with the Doctor, but it's not really his story. He's much more a passenger here than the next story, Junkyard Demon. The Warriors show up again in the backup stories for Captain Britain where their backgrounds are rounded out, but this is the last we see of them alongside the TARDIS. It's such a weird little difference in tone. Like the arcade stuff is fun and like the only thing really to enjoy and I know I'm getting very close to the end of his comic run, considering the release dates were getting ever so close to Davison's debut. I don't even think it works as a backdoor pilot as the race team is just there. Like I don't remember if they even get names. Definitely the weakest of the Dragon's Claw bindup, unless Junkyard Demon and The Neutron Knights end up being terrible. I believe (or hope, at least) you'll finish up the book on a high note. Given how Who-dom has evolved since The Neutron Knights, I think you'll have a few interesting things to say about that one in particular come the review.
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Post by newt5996 on Jul 18, 2021 23:45:48 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2021 3:53:17 GMT
A fun read. Having been a watcher of Andromeda when I came to Tides, I thought the white hole was -- what was described in that show as -- a miniature Big Bang. Here's an interesting detail: the story follows on from The Neutron Knights, but it also follows on from The Deal. The very beginning of Parkhouse's tenure. The Millennium Wars, here, are the same conflict that the unnamed Trooper and his mechanical Spider were fighting in when the Fourth Doctor clobbered his spacecraft. So, there are at least two incarnations caught up in that time war, from opposing ends. Inside and outside. It's a nice, unexpected detail.
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Post by newt5996 on Aug 2, 2021 12:58:16 GMT
A fun read. Having been a watcher of Andromeda when I came to Tides, I thought the white hole was -- what was described in that show as -- a miniature Big Bang. Here's an interesting detail: the story follows on from The Neutron Knights, but it also follows on from The Deal. The very beginning of Parkhouse's tenure. The Millennium Wars, here, are the same conflict that the unnamed Trooper and his mechanical Spider were fighting in when the Fourth Doctor clobbered his spacecraft. So, there are at least two incarnations caught up in that time war, from opposing ends. Inside and outside. It's a nice, unexpected detail. Now that’s something I wasn’t expecting. Definitely trying to get readers to make a long term investment in reading the comic which is an interesting idea, especially for the 1980s. I know a lot of this run bleeds right into one another which I hope means that there’ll be more depth to the run then there was for a lot of the late Fourth Doctor stuff.
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