so very wrong
May. 6th, 2011 10:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kindkitI've finally given in and started reading The Gallifrey Chronicles, the last Eighth Doctor Adventures novel. I was braced for Fitz being written badly, because the book's by Lance Parkin and he always writes Fitz badly/contemptuously. But I still wasn't quite prepared to see Fitz berating the poor Doctor for not wanting his memories back, when just a few books ago (in Halflife) Fitz deliberately and thoughtfully chose not to push the Doctor to remember because he understood that the Doctor couldn't bear it. Fitz loves the Doctor, and although he's been angry with him at times, he's never tried to hurt him. On the contrary, he's always been protective. GRRRRR ARRGGGH HULK SMASH puny Lance Parkin for maligning Fitz!
Plus the whole Fitz/Trix thing comes out of nowhere--as Parkin is clearly aware, so he tries to get away with it by lampshading it--and Fitz wanting to leave the TARDIS and be normal contradicts everything we've ever previously seen of him, apart from a few lines randomly shoehorned into the previous book at, I suspect, Parkin's request.
So far the book hasn't shown evidence of Parkin's other really annoying trait as a writer, which is his endless Capitalism Yay cheerleading. But I'm sure there will be some. Seriously, how could anyone so misunderstand the character of the Doctor as to think of him as a capitalist?
Why, oh why did the very last book in the series have to be by someone so boneheadedly wrong?
Plus the whole Fitz/Trix thing comes out of nowhere--as Parkin is clearly aware, so he tries to get away with it by lampshading it--and Fitz wanting to leave the TARDIS and be normal contradicts everything we've ever previously seen of him, apart from a few lines randomly shoehorned into the previous book at, I suspect, Parkin's request.
So far the book hasn't shown evidence of Parkin's other really annoying trait as a writer, which is his endless Capitalism Yay cheerleading. But I'm sure there will be some. Seriously, how could anyone so misunderstand the character of the Doctor as to think of him as a capitalist?
Why, oh why did the very last book in the series have to be by someone so boneheadedly wrong?
