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A Big Hand For The Doctor (2013)

by Eoin Colfer(Favorite Author)

3.34 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Puffin

series

Doctor Who 50th Anniversary E-Shorts

review 1: The first Doctor and Susan face up against a band of Soul Pirates. Unfortunately in his last encounter he lost his hand. This short story started the 11 short stories for 11 Doctors. I've not read any of this authors prior stuff, but the story was fairly simple. I did like a couple of the characters, but the Doctor was a bit off. He was too energetic and adventurous. He seems more like the Doctor that the First Doctor could have been after the reboot. It was a quick fun story, but not overly impressive.
review 2: A Big Hand for the Doctor is a story featuring the first Doctor and Susan in a story which we can only assume is set before they meet Ian and Barbara in a junkyard in 1960's London. The story is ostensibly about the Doctor getting a new hand grown by t... morehis alien surgeon who seems to be hiding in England in the 1900's and about how the Doctor managed to lose his hand in the first place, and how the surgeon lends him for the time being a much larger, and female, hand. This version of the first Doctor seems to be aware of what his future regenerations will look like, in particular the eleventh Doctor, which is a bit odd. He doesn't really act like the Doctor that we know either and it is hard to imagine the first Doctor doing any of the things that occur in this story. The same can be said for Susan as it happens. The story itself is well written and has some interesting characters in it such as the surgeon who is going to grow the Doctor's new hand, but just doesn't really interest or intrigue me enough to go back to it. I do have to say that I was disappointed by this story, mostly because it just never felt like it was a first Doctor story at all, which took me completely out of the story. less

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