Thursday, 4 January 2018

Who Reviews Judgement of the Judoon by DJ Forrest


Written by Colin Brake
Published 2009

This story was better than I thought it would be, given the fact that a Judoon was going to figure quite heavily in the story. It was great. It had a kind of Blade Runner feel to the story, where mob fathers were fierce in the lower end of the city, but with a new face, unknown to all of them, was out to take Uncle for all he was worth.

There were alien twins, and a detective agency run by a girl who was keen to find her Dad, and taking any case to keep her business afloat, but which all tied in with the same thing the Doctor and the Judoon Commander were investigating.

You saw a different side to the lumbering rhino boy, where 'Justice is Swift', you saw something quite elegant and sweet and bloody hilarious, that you're smiling and really wish that, should they ever bring the Judoon back into play on the tellybox, that they introduce this Judoon, because, he was funny. I mean, not slapstick funny, but funny in the sense that he could take a joke, which you need, when you're dealing with all manner of aliens, and you're with the 10th Doctor.

A definite must on any Who bookshelf.



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