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.
Here we are at the penultimate chapter of our novelisation, or novelization for us Americans. We needed two chapters last time to have two scenes not in the episode. I think this chapter is back to the actual episode.
Since I’m padding the intro…I wouldn’t mind having a TARDIS. I wouldn’t time travel because I fear so much about time travel. I’m not sure I’d go into space without assurances I could make it back to Earth. It would be cool to be able to take your house with you to the store. You could wheel the shopping cart into the kitchen and then bring it back to the store. When I was a kid I thought living in a mobile home (we call them RVs more often these days) would be cool because I could drive around and still be able to sleep in my own bed. I’m not sure where I’d park it, and while I do like watching RV shows that give us office space, storage space, and feel more like a luxury apartment than the ones I saw, I’d probably be too nervous to drive one of those things.
A TARDIS on the other hand practically drives itself…and somehow the Doctor still manages to have crash landings. I’m not sure it phases through objects live we’ve seen in this novel as an excuse to hold back the rescue ship…which the show didn’t need as it already had distance to travel as an excuse…but it holds more rooms. Provided you aren’t forced to eject rooms to be light enough, and I couldn’t tell you how that even works, it would be nice. No property taxes, no banks, and you could disguise it as a vending machine or something for some extra money. Yes, the most amazing vehicle in sci-fi and somehow I am the one who would very mundane in how I used it. Go figure? Anyway, let’s get back to the TARDIS because that’s where everyone who isn’t dead (I think) were headed for.
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