TELOS: Nightdreamers

Is this the series of even more gimmicky writing styles than the actual novels? In this case, we get a play as novelised by Tom Arden.

On the moon Verd we have a fantasy medieval setting with technology, so we get electro-torches and the like. The moon also happens to be falling apart and pulls the Doctor in. We get various stock characters and a story that involves a lot of running around and, frankly, wouldn’t be out of place as panto. Tom is clearly going for Midsummer Night’s Dream, but also had ideas for Doctor Who that didn’t mesh at all well.

And, to be honest, despite his credentials listed at the end, this doesn’t feel like a well written story at all. It’s like he read some other descriptions of stories and then hurriedly bashed out a story and plopped the points down.

Ultimately this feels like a story that was written by someone who had the core idea of “Jo’s getting ready to leave”, and threw in other concepts… and didn’t put it together properly.

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