Classic Who: Crossovers

[cot_tossed]

This category's reviews are the work of two people. One read three of the longer stories, and the other one covered the rest.

Truthiness And Relative Dimensions In Space by Erin Ptah

Comments

[nonelvis]

Thanks for the review! I'd be curious to know what you found confusing about the story, just so I can figure out if it was deliberate or accidental on my part ;)

[cot_tossed]

Well, I wasn't quite sure what Delirium was trying to say when she first started talking about hearts, but it started making more sense as it went on and, in reflection, the first bit was probably just normal Delirium nonsense and not Significant Delirium nonsense.

[nonelvis]

No, you're right to call the first line out as possibly too obscure, even though I like it a lot. (It's a reference to all the dead Time Lords.) I think Delirium works better in a graphic medium, where the artwork can complement and clarify her words - she's really tricky in prose, so I'm not surprised some of what I wrote didn't quite work for you.

Thanks for the feedback, though, which is much appreciated.

[kerravonsen]

Personally, my favourite is "Travel Light" -- yes, I think it is better than mine. I would agree that "Things That Never Were" does a "decent job", but I love "Travel Light" for the good melding of Seven and Ace and the Baniks; it's just so fitting that this is just the kind of situation that the Doctor would "interfere" in.

[cot_tossed]

Everything was good in this category, at least the stuff I got to read. I was quite happy with it.

[platypus]

I tried to read Truthiness, but wow, that's a lot of TOC navigating, multimedia features, footnotes, deleted scenes, extras and such. I'm kind of surprised by the "didn't seem long" comment; I was sufficiently daunted by the 66 links on that page to skim a few parts and give up.

[cot_tossed]

I think what I meant is that didn't seem long while I was reading it. A lot of the very long stories I've had to review for cot_tossed have been extremely tedious to slog through. This wasn't.

Maybe I should have worded that better. Hmm. *goes to add the 'while I was reading' bit to the review*

Also

[cot_tossed]

I know what you mean about it looking daunting, though. I was daunted by it when I first saw it. If it weren't for cot_tossed, I probably would have never tried to read it. But it was one of the ones that needed reviewing, so I started at the beginning and read the first couple parts in order and by then I was enjoying it so much that I stayed up late to finish it.

(I didn't bother with footnotes or deleted scenes or extras until the end, either. I think that helped)

Re: Also

[platypus]

Yeah, I understood what you meant about it subjectively going by quickly. I just found that the fiddly navigation made the experience of reading it tedious (for me). I noticed that it's also on Teaspoon, though, and there chapter-to-chapter navigation's considerably easier.

[sailorptah]

Let me just say that I've been looking forward to this review, and given the way it came out, no matter who wins, my week is already made :D