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Read-Along Discussion Post; Frontier Worlds

Jun 20, 2010 13:43

Hey, everyone! This is the discussion post for Frontier Worlds by Peter Anghelides! Feel free to comment with any thoughts that you might have. If you need a bit of a reminder, you can check out the plot summary at the Doctor Who Reference Guide, or check the tags for the download link ( Read more... )

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cosmic_celery June 20 2010, 20:55:49 UTC

Responding to my own post BECAUSE I CAN. I think my favorite part about this book is the TARDIS failing at translating Fitz's Sinatra-era slang. Potato Potahto becomes just potato potato and so on.

It takes advantage of the translation circuit idea in the same way the show has since its start, but underscores that they are on an alien world that doesn't work in quite the same way as the one they came from.

Also, I'd like to know who named their child Alura, because that was definitely not a great decision, even if she is alluring.

wishfulaces June 20 2010, 22:30:39 UTC

Mostly, I love the fact that so much of this is from Fitz's point of view. And is so well written from his point of view, with all his good and bad bits mixed in with all his idiosyncrasies and foibles. (Plus, this is one of the few times where Fitz talks about his family beyond his mother, if I remember right.) And even though he and Compassion don't interact much with the Doctor, he and the Doctor *still* manage to have a slashy-as-hell scene right at the beginning of the book.

I also really liked Compassion's bits in this--it's been a long, long time since I've read most of Compassion's books, but this seemed to be one of the ones that handled her character better?

cosmic_celery June 21 2010, 02:25:48 UTC

Yeah, I think that Compassion was written well in this one. Sometimes she's nothing more than the icy girl unwillingly with the Doctor and Fitz. Here we've definitely got some more glimpses at who she is and how she's changing.

Fitz is good with language, and it's reasonable to assume that he'd be good at bringing across a narrative. At the beginning, the bits from his beginning have more of a Frank Sinatra flair to them...I noticed a few references to American things that Fitz probably picked up from Sinatra movies rather than first hand.

As for the scene at the beginning of the book, the first time that I read it I thought that it was out of character for both of them, but the more that I read of them the more that it fits. They both are concerned for the other person but go about showing their concern in roundabout ways.

silver_sandals June 21 2010, 06:20:08 UTC

Sorry I'm late, I only just finished reading ( ... )

thought_goddess June 21 2010, 19:03:20 UTC

I liked this book quite a bit (though I found that my mind just sort of blended it in with a few of the ones that come after it). I really enjoyed Fitz's narrative, and he and Compassion as a faily team were entertaining. And of course the scene at the beginning with Fitz and The Doctor was adorable and kind of made me want to bash their heads together. :D
That being said, I spent a lot of the book being angry at The Doctor. His relationship with Compassion has always made me a bit twitchy, and I noticed in this book especially he did a lot of the 'I know best and I'll teach you a better way' sort of thing. And Fitz automatically sided with him because of his antagonistic relationship with Compassion, when I think if it had been someone else having those arguments with The Doctor Fitz might have thought about it a bit more.