For some reason, I kept expecting the Master to pop up, posing as the Pope, at any moment.
Just cos the Master pops up (cunningly disguised) in YOUR novella...
Cat (p20): 'By listening to you for once...'
Cat (same page!): 'I always listen!'
'He would not have believed the loneliness' - Well, why the hell didn't the Doc just get himself a REAL cat? Since when has the bloke with an endless stream of young females hurling themselves at him been desperate enough to build a robot for company? (Er...except at the end of Invasion of Time, obviously. And the novelisation claimed he'd built that K9 a lot earlier.)
Blimey, aren't there EASIER ways of acquiring mercury than attacking killer-insects?
Why would a primitive society refer to Cat as a 'girl'? She's 28, which would be positively middle-aged to them.
So there are no monks or priests or ANYONE with authority in the crowd? And no one in the Cathedral notices what's happening right outside?
The words 'The Holy Inquisition' make Cat's blood run cold. Very sensible of her, but SURELY first she'd have a good giggle about 'No one expects the Holy Inquisition'...?
Burning the Doctor at the stake isn't exactly ORIGINAL. It was a lot more fun in Brain of Morbius and The Daemons, where we could SEE it happening.
The Doc did such a sloppy job on Cat he couldn't even be bothered to give her memories of how they MET? He left her vulnerable to pick up the memories of ANY Tom, Dick and Harry she came across - WHY? As Compassion proves, that sort of susceptibility can be VERY dangerous.
'His or her' - there are WOMEN on the Holy Ship? Since WHEN?!
SO not convinced by SEEING the Doctor's consciousness floating around.
'Pope John Paul has made it an article of faith that dolphins are fish' - I LIKE it!
'What if there's no hell. What if there's...just nothing. I think that would be worse. I mean...there was nothing before we were born, right?' - yeah, cos that nothingness was just SO much worse than eternal torture. Guess logic isn't this robot's strong point.
'You should lay the burden bfore the Lord. Become as a child in his sight, believe now as you believed when a child. Where was the burden back then, eh?' - are you DEAF? She's just TOLD you! The burden was thinking your darling oochie-coochie pet wouldn't be going to heaven!!
The Inquisitor has his gun at the Doctor's head! So why order the Captain to kill him?!
'I like to think that this book is quite humorous but very dark at the same time. The fundamental premise is, hopefully, soul-destroying...' - Robert Perry in DWM. Er...what IS the fundamental premise? That the Catholic Church is still going? (Depressing, but - what with the Dolphin Anti-Pope - not as depressing as you'd expect.) Or that the Companion's a robot? (No biggie, I'm not speciesest, K9 is my second-favourite Old Who Companion EVER.)
Anyway, I don't believe in souls.
Since when has the bloke with an endless stream of young females hurling themselves at him been desperate enough to build a robot for company?
Oh-kay, so it happens again in Legacy of Time. When Eight builds himself a TOTAL HALFWIT. But I remain...unconvinced.
Since when has the bloke with an endless stream of young females hurling themselves at him been desperate enough to build a robot for company?
Oh-kay, so it happens again in Legacy of Time. When Eight builds himself a TOTAL HALFWIT. But I remain...unconvinced.
Especially now the Doc can apparently build herself a HUMAN with some crayons and half a can of spam (Orphan 55)...