| Title | : | Doctor Who Volume 3: Final Sacrifice |
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| ISBN | : | 1600108466 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781600108464 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 138 |
| Publication | : | First published February 1, 2011 |
Doctor Who Volume 3: Final Sacrifice Reviews
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Suddenly it all makes sense, this final volume really tied everything together in a surprisingly exciting and successful way.
I absolutely love when cause and effect get all twisted up, that's what I want from a story involving time travel. Visiting the past and seeing how it changes the future is fun but when the future is the cause of an event in the past it blows my mind, and that's when I'm in Whovian ecstasy!
Overall, the final volume makes reading the first 2 totally worth it.
The last 3 issues are stand alone with varying degrees of quality...
Ground Control 4 Stars, What's great about this story is that it questions the ethics of the Doctor. It is easy to see the Doctor as a hero, but isn't it reckless to and selfish to whisk people away from their lives and put them in almost constant danger....?
The Big, Blue Box 3 Stars, I love DW stories from the perspective of an outsider, for example this short story is narrated by a man who has seen the Tardis pop up multiple times. For what it is, which is short, it is a nice simple story.
To Sleep Perchance to Scream 2 Stars, this short story is meant to be surreal and has lots of references to classic DW but I just didn't really get it. -
The second installment in this series of comic books picked up some pretty good momentum, so I had fairly high hopes that this third installment would just blow me away. Unfortunately, it did not. The stories in this collection didn't really tie together at all. It was more like an anthology, showcasing the doctor drawn by different artists in various situations. This would have been fine, if I liked the style of the majority of the artists, which I did not, or if the plot in the stories had been amazing, which it wasn't. The majority of the art lacked detail, similar to my issues with the first installment in this graphic novel series, and the plot was oftentimes very confusing and flimsy in the majority of the stories included in this collection.
The one thing that I did really appreciate was the fact that this book showcased the villain's perspective rather well, allowing the reader to sympathize. I love it when an author is able to show that villains are really just people, and let them argue their case.
Overall, this was a pretty underwhelming collection of Tenth Doctor Who stories, and I still don't care for the artist who did the majority of the art in this volume. This, combined with the confusingly flimsy plots made this book just really not my thing. Maybe graphic novels are just not for me, or maybe this is just a bad example, who knows. Either way, I will be trudging forward through the rest of the comics included in the bundle I bought. Fingers crossed that I find some gems! -
I'm not sure if something can feel like it was incredibly convoluted and ALSO wrapped up in way too neat of a little bow at the same time but I feel like this volume somehow managed it. It might have just been my mood while reading but I feel like the first three issues here were kind of wandering all over the place and then the last one just quickly shoved everything into a nice little repeating time loop to tie it up. Probably would have been better to have two more regular issues instead of including the annual in this but there was still some interesting stuff in here and also the horrible art was nowhere to be seen.
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I LEARNED MANY THINGS IN LIFE NEVER MAKE A DOCTOR 👨‍⚕️ 👩‍⚕️MAD. WHY HE OR SHE HOLD THAT —-LAST LIFE NÉES—-IN HIS HAND DONT MAKE D.R. MAD.
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Tony Lee’s Doctor Who trilogy draws to a brilliant close, as I suspected it might. The first too books were quite good in their own right, but all the set-up they carried gets a timey-wimey -complex, epic, moving and smart resolution with “Final Sacrifice”.
The book reads like a brilliant Steven Moffat script for a season finale with the way it takes the nonlinear storytelling possibilities of DW and runs with them, never forgetting characters or thematic ambitions. Clever and touching, just like the show at its best. -
Overall, not bad. The aspects of the ending are a bit too tidy. However, there's some nice emotional moments in there and some surprises, and even if it's too tidy, it does manage to resolve all the various plot threads.
As well, this collection includes the various short stories from that year's Annual; all four are nice and fun, with the standout being "The Big Blue Box", packing something that could easily be a whole episode into eleven pages. -
http://nwhyte.livejournal.com/2112677.html[return][return]Tony Lee's narrative achieves a very happy union with Matthew Dow Smith's art here, and the story arc arc is rounded off dramatically and satisfactorily. The book is rounded out with three stories from the 2010 Doctor Who Annual, which I now realise I hadn't read; they too are very good. -
Public library copy.
(To be read on vacation.)
I'm a fan of Paul Grist so it was neat he had done cover art for this series. Most of the interior art reminded me of Mike Mignola's art style just without as much black. The story was fine, not bad, but not outstanding either. I'd state the book remained faithful to the spirit of the show. I believe this book marks the first time I've read anything by Tony Lee, whom I think recently took on work for either Marvel or DC Comics. -
The ending to this ongoing storyline was amazing, and could easily have been written by Moffat himself. The entire story a paradoxical mesh of wibbly wobbly timey wimey ness!!! The artwork is fantastic in the main story however the quality varies in the one shots. The one shots stories also vary in quality too but do show inventiveness from the writers. Goodbye ten I don't want you to go either!!!
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The trilogy ends on an alien planet with the final confrontation with the avatar. There's also some really nice short stories about the Doctor travelling on his own and the impact he has on people' lives. Some great character bits, and the final story is a nice goodbye to the 10th Doctor in the comics. A great read.
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Good final 10th Doctor graphic novel interesting ending and how it tied in to the tv show waters of mars one of the best graphic novels i read in a long time alos a bit of sad ending with 10 being my doctor and my fave one of them all
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A good finish to this series. I liked the art on this one a bit more than on the two previous volumes. The story got a little confusing at one point, but it came together and made some sense in the end.
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Nice continuation and I like how the stories loop around together but sometimes reading late at night the timey wimey stuff gets a little too loopy.
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Though a bit slow, "Final Sacrifice" is a fun timey-wimey story that makes me want to go back and reread the series. The short stories that fill out this volume are generally good as well.
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Muddled and trite story, and as I've said before, I'm not a fan of Matthew Dow Smith's art. Still, it's the Doctor, so I finished the book. The three one-off stories at the end are rather fun.
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The main story was good, connected all the dots (at least all those that I remember). The extra stories at the end were good as well. Love the panda creatures!
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I really enjoyed this one! I love how everything tied together perfectly.
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Finally back to work, which means that I can continue with these comics! Yay!
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Really great conclusion to the 3 act story.
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I think it was just me...but I tired of this storyline.
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so so end to the trilogy, some neat writing moves. the short strips are at the best here; Kelly's at on Ground Control and Al Davidson's masterful Doctor dreaming classic.
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Not sure about the writing on this one. In the span of a page, The Doctor calls someone an "idiot" and refers to a man as "annoying woman". Not really like the Doctor!
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Includes the Doctor Who Annual, which includes a ridiculous story about a panda, and a silent comic that intros Matt Smith very nicely.
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I liked it alot
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A reasonable conclusion, but I can't say that I was particularly engaged.
