Chapter by Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.
Last time we finished episode one of the arc, “The Powerful Enemy”. Now we start “Desperate Measures” with one exception. I’m guessing that one scene will be here and like with the Doctor and Ian stumbling on an old trap, will connect scenes originally set to a cliffhanger. I miss the serialized Doctor Who of the past. Seasonal arcs just aren’t the same thing. It extends the important story too far and while it does allow for a more contained episode to give characters a bit more focus, it’s just not the same to me.
Note that while we are bridging between two parts of a two episode serial we are not yet halfway through the book. There are 15 chapters and while the odd number makes it harder to split (the epilogue is two pages and I’ll do that with the final chapter) the halfway mark should still be chapter seven or eight. That’s nitpicky for me. I haven’t read this since I got it many, many years ago so the pacing could be right for the book, like not using the cliffhanger between chapters, so take that comment for whatever it’s worth. I’m trying to pad the intro on the homepage.
With that, let’s check in with Barbara and Vicki as they give Bennett a surprise.
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