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She becomes part of the N-form and starts to destroy the Quadrant estate and activates the attack. Every one who has taken the cocaine has a engram on the brain which act as a "dimensional vent, through which the N-Form can the physical world, shoving itself into the brain and taking over. As a shaft of metal is working its way through the brains of the cocaine uses, the only why she can be stopped is by the Doctor activating the shutdown with the use of the Patrexian numbers. But to get to the data core of the N-Form, the Doctor must take some cocaine so he has a engram to connect to the N-Form. Activating the shutdown, Mrs Jericho finally gives birth to her child. The N-form is shutdown but at a price. All but Gabriel Tyler are killed as well most of the people on the Quadrant estate and ever user of the cocaine. Doctor travels back to the Christmas Eve when Winnie gave away Steven, and to when Bev looked down at the Doctor when she was younger. Fandom may earn an affiliate commission on sales made from links on this page. Sign In Don't have an account? Start a Wiki. You may be looking for the audio adaptation. Contents [ show ]. Categories :. Cancel Save. Stream the best stories. Start Your Free Trial. Try Now. A young boy living on the estate, Gabriel Tyler, appears to be the focus of strange powers, and also for the attentions of Eva Jericho, whose own grievously ill young son seems to be linked to Gabriel in some way, through a secret Gabriel's mother Winnie has long tried to hide. Davies had already established himself as a successful writer of children's television by , having penned well-received serials such as Dark Season and Century Falls , and winning a BAFTA Children's Award for an episode of Children's Ward , a series he both wrote for and produced from to A staff scriptwriter at Granada Television , he was beginning to move into adult television, writing for soap operas such as Families and Revelations , the latter of which he created. Despite being a professional writer and long-time Doctor Who fan, Davies had no initial interest in writing for Virgin's Doctor Who novel series, concentrating instead on his television career. With Doctor Who out of production, I suggested he'd be an ideal choice to write one of the novels, and gave him a contact at Virgin Publishing. Davies himself gave his own account of the book's origins in Doctor Who Magazine' s history of the New Adventures range. I bashed out the first two chapters in my spare time. I sent in this dead lazy submission, which just said, 'I've got no idea what happens in the end, but trust me. I write'. The arrogance of youth! However, Davies found himself commissioned to write for the range by Levene, with his book forming part of the 'Psi- Powers' arc which was overarching the storyline of the novels at the time, although Davies claimed: "I'm not sure I completely understood the Brotherhood arc to be honest! I just kept it vague and hoped someone else would make sense of it. There are several aspects of Damaged Goods which contain elements present throughout much of Davies's other work. The inclusion of a family named Tyler, in particular, is a trademark of the writer — Tylers also appear in Revelations , Queer as Folk , The Second Coming and the re-launch of Doctor Who itself. The scene in which Mrs Jericho prepares a dinner laced with rat poison for her husband is replicated almost exactly in the concluding episode of Davies's religious telefantasy drama The Second Coming , where the leading character of Judith prepares a similarly poisoned meal for her lover Steve. There is an even more direct link to Dark Season , with the novel's epilogue featuring a mention of the main character, Marcie, from that serial. Damaged Goods contains a gay character, David, and homosexuality is a recurring theme explored in much of Davies's writing, as he himself noted in an article for The Guardian newspaper in She was too busy taking over the world to do anything particularly lesbian, though she did keep a Teutonic Valkyrie by her side at all times Once I'd started, I never stopped I even wrote a Doctor Who novel in which the six-foot blond, blue-eyed companion interrupts the hunt for an interdimensional Gallifreyan War Machine to get a blowjob in the back of a taxi. Like you do. Davies's major breakthrough television series, Queer as Folk , was centred around the lives of three gay men in Manchester , one of whom, Vince Tyler, is portrayed as a fanatical Doctor Who fan. Although never clearly seen on screen, part of the set dressing for Vince's bedroom as seen in the first episode of the series was a copy of Damaged Goods , included as an in-joke by the set dressers. Purists might argue that a book full of sex, drugs and squalor can't really be Doctor Who , but they would be forgetting that the essence of the series and those like it is in portraying ordinary people's reactions to the unprecedented. It's done so brilliantly here that, much as I abhor scores, rankings and superlatives, I'll admit that Damaged Goods is currently my favourite New Adventure. However, not all readers agreed with Owen's assessment that the setting and themes of Damaged Goods were one of its strengths. I don't buy science fiction, especially not Doctor Who , for a lesson in modern sociology. I certainly would not have bought Damaged Goods had I known that is precisely what I would be getting. Generally, however, reaction to the novel was extremely positive, with other online reviews around the time of the book's release praising Davies's work. Certainly, Damaged Goods is one of the best novels Virgin has released in Sullivan's website also includes a monthly updated list of the most popular Doctor Who novels, "The Doctor Who Novel Rankings", based on votes e-mailed in by readers and running since As of the 4 January edition of the novel rankings, Damaged Goods was placed eighth in the list of most popular New Adventures novels. In , Doctor Who Magazine ran their own one-off readers' poll to find the most popular New Adventures as part of their celebrations of Doctor Who' s 35th anniversary. Damaged Goods received votes from readers, with an average score of 7. After having been commissioned to write the novel, Davies had originally planned to take three months off writing for television in order to complete it. He was then also commissioned to write for two major ITV television series, leaving him very short of time in which to complete the book, eventually writing the manuscript in only five weeks. This sudden amount of work did, however, have the unexpected result of Granada Television purchasing the media rights for the novel on 2 February , with a view to Davies possibly scripting a television adaptation for them. Doctor Who: Damaged Goods by Russell T. Davies

He has written and co-written several works of tie-in fiction, including the original series Star Trek novel A Choice of Catastrophes. You can read his thoughts on topics such as comic books, his childhood, Farscape , and the deeply terrible science-fiction of the s at Science's Less Accurate Grandmother. You may also like Reviews. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Doctor Who: Out of the Deep review September 24 Torchwood: God Among Us 3 review September 23 Missy: Series Two review September 7 Donna Noble: Kidnapped! Doctor Who: Ravenous 4 review May 25 Big Finish Originals: Transference review May 18 The N-form is shutdown but at a price. All but Gabriel Tyler are killed as well most of the people on the Quadrant estate and ever user of the cocaine. Doctor travels back to the Christmas Eve when Winnie gave away Steven, and to when Bev looked down at the Doctor when she was younger. Fandom may earn an affiliate commission on sales made from links on this page. Sign In Don't have an account? Start a Wiki. You may be looking for the audio adaptation. Contents [ show ]. Categories :. Cancel Save. Stream the best stories. Start Your Free Trial. The inclusion of a family named Tyler, in particular, is a trademark of the writer — Tylers also appear in Revelations , Queer as Folk , The Second Coming and the re-launch of Doctor Who itself. The scene in which Mrs Jericho prepares a dinner laced with rat poison for her husband is replicated almost exactly in the concluding episode of Davies's religious telefantasy drama The Second Coming , where the leading character of Judith prepares a similarly poisoned meal for her lover Steve. There is an even more direct link to Dark Season , with the novel's epilogue featuring a mention of the main character, Marcie, from that serial. Damaged Goods contains a gay character, David, and homosexuality is a recurring theme explored in much of Davies's writing, as he himself noted in an article for The Guardian newspaper in She was too busy taking over the world to do anything particularly lesbian, though she did keep a Teutonic Valkyrie by her side at all times Once I'd started, I never stopped I even wrote a Doctor Who novel in which the six-foot blond, blue- eyed companion interrupts the hunt for an interdimensional Gallifreyan War Machine to get a blowjob in the back of a taxi. Like you do. Davies's major breakthrough television series, Queer as Folk , was centred around the lives of three gay men in Manchester , one of whom, Vince Tyler, is portrayed as a fanatical Doctor Who fan. Although never clearly seen on screen, part of the set dressing for Vince's bedroom as seen in the first episode of the series was a copy of Damaged Goods , included as an in-joke by the set dressers. Purists might argue that a book full of sex, drugs and squalor can't really be Doctor Who , but they would be forgetting that the essence of the series and those like it is in portraying ordinary people's reactions to the unprecedented. It's done so brilliantly here that, much as I abhor scores, rankings and superlatives, I'll admit that Damaged Goods is currently my favourite New Adventure. However, not all readers agreed with Owen's assessment that the setting and themes of Damaged Goods were one of its strengths. I don't buy science fiction, especially not Doctor Who , for a lesson in modern sociology. I certainly would not have bought Damaged Goods had I known that is precisely what I would be getting. Generally, however, reaction to the novel was extremely positive, with other online reviews around the time of the book's release praising Davies's work. Certainly, Damaged Goods is one of the best novels Virgin has released in Sullivan's website also includes a monthly updated list of the most popular Doctor Who novels, "The Doctor Who Novel Rankings", based on votes e-mailed in by readers and running since As of the 4 January edition of the novel rankings, Damaged Goods was placed eighth in the list of most popular New Adventures novels. In , Doctor Who Magazine ran their own one-off readers' poll to find the most popular New Adventures as part of their celebrations of Doctor Who' s 35th anniversary. Damaged Goods received votes from readers, with an average score of 7. After having been commissioned to write the novel, Davies had originally planned to take three months off writing for television in order to complete it. He was then also commissioned to write for two major ITV television series, leaving him very short of time in which to complete the book, eventually writing the manuscript in only five weeks. This sudden amount of work did, however, have the unexpected result of Granada Television purchasing the media rights for the novel on 2 February , with a view to Davies possibly scripting a television adaptation for them. Damaged Goods (Davies novel) - Wikipedia

Almost twenty years years ago, and nearly a decade before he became the man who regenerated Doctor Who on TV for a new century, Russell T Davies made his first contribution to the series in an entirely different medium. At a time when Doctor Who was off the air and being continued via the Virgin book ranges, a then up-and-coming Davies would write what is still his only novel for the New Adventures. With it having been recently adapted as an audio drama by Big Finish, now seemed an opportune mom Almost twenty years years ago, and nearly a decade before he became the man who regenerated Doctor Who on TV for a new century, Russell T Davies made his first contribution to the series in an entirely different medium. With it having been recently adapted as an audio drama by Big Finish, now seemed an opportune moment to finally take it off the shelf and read what is often regarded as one of the best books to come out of the Virgin New Adventures. The thing that struck me most while reading this is the same thing that struck me while watching the Davies era of New Who: The man can write great characters. There simply isn't a single badly written character in the whole book and Davies proves his ability to get a character across so simply and effectively on TV is there on the printed page as well. There's Rita, the cocaine addicted waitress we meet in chapter two for example, who appears for that single chapter but is so well defined that you almost feel like you know her by the time it's over. With his ability to do that, Davies really fleshes out the full supporting cast once the story shifts to its main setting as we're introduced to the troubled Tyler family, the ruthless and resurrected drug dealer the Capper, the old woman Mrs. Hearn who holds many secrets and the upper-class Eve Jericho who are just some of the characters we meet in the space of pages. Each and every one of them is fleshed out, explored and delved into as we discover just who they are and the role they have to play in the events unfolding. Then there's the setting: the Quadrant housing estate in London, It's hard not to think of it as a predecessor of sorts to the Powell Estate but it's far more than that. The Quadrant is almost a character in its own right: the seemingly ordinary hiding something extraordinary underneath. It's a place full of secrets with people almost hidden away, tension hanging in the air almost continuously. The Doctor at one point sums up each of the flats found in the Quadrant as being like a fortress, an apt description of perhaps the most down to earth setting you'll ever encounter in a Doctor Who book. Yet, like he would do nearly a decade later, Davies proves that the extraordinary often lies just beneath the surface if we're willing to look for it. What really separates Damaged Goods from the rest of Davies' Who writing and why he stopped it being reprinted ahead of the show's return in is just how adult and dark it is. While the council estate setting and character situations are definitely familiar to those of us who came to know Rose Tyler and the Powell Estate, Davies handling of those familiar elements is anything but. The story revolves around drugs, something that would be a major taboo even now for the New Series, with emphasis placed on the less than sunny lives and times of those in the Quadrant with sex, expletives and violence all being front and center. While t he social issues being explored here are familiar Davies territory, the tone of the novel isn't so much Doctor Who but that of Torchwood especially the bleak but brilliant Children Of Earth. This is Davies doing what he never did on TV and what some are still crying out for even now: a non-family friendly Doctor Who. Yet while Davies is famous for his characters and characterizations and he creates a good sense of atmosphere, there is one fault of his that is here. The man is infamous for his plots, lack thereof and infuriating endings. The plot is an ultra-slow burner even at pages with it being at times almost more of a portrait of life on a housing estate than a science fiction novel. Then suddenly, with fifty or so pages left, the plot explodes and begins to rush by at an incredible pace and with elements that firmly remind us that this is in fact a Doctor Who story. Yet by then it's almost too late to salvage the plot as the finale turns into something of an precursor to that of The Next Doctor thirteen years later. If you're looking for Davies to do a good plot to go with his characters, this isn't the place to go at all. There's another side-effect of that focus as well. It's almost like reading a Doctor-lite story at times as, until those last fifty pages or so, the Doctor and companions seem to wander about almost aimlessly inside the novel. Yet once again Davies proves his ability to right strong characters, especially in his capturing of the seventh Doctor who comes across incredibly well when he does appear. Indeed, reading Damaged Goods felt less at times like reading a Doctor Who novel then reading that very thing Davies is often accused of turning the New Series into: a soap opera with Davies often seems swept up in his characters and their back stories at expense of anything else. At the end of the day, Damaged Goods features all the hallmarks of Davies later writing for when the show came back both for the good and bad. Good in the form of characterizations but bad in that the plot is slow to unfold and then is over with in a flash. Yet it's also far darker than virtually anything Davies gave his in his nearly five years as show runner on the New Series. While I can't quite sing its praises as others have done both here and elsewhere, I can recommend it at the very least as a curiosity and at best as Davies only novel. Jan 04, Daniel Kukwa rated it it was amazing Shelves: doctor-who. Before Russell T. Davies resurrected Doctor Who for the 21st century television universe, his love for the show lead him to a darker literary contribution to the longest running TV series. It's not a book for the timid -- and not to be taken as the template for Dav Before Russell T. It's not a book for the timid -- and not to be taken as the template for Davies' TV scripts. But it remains one of the most shocking, disturbing, fascinating, pulse-pounding novels in the Doctor Who canon. Feb 27, Kevin rated it it was amazing. Darker than most of the other Dr. Who books I've read and a lot more interesting. Apr 18, Kerry rated it really liked it Shelves: , 8 , media , reread , rereads-in A reread after many years. I listen to a podcast that discusses Doctor Who spin off media like the novels and audios. They are up to this one next and i thought I'd reread along. Next I need a relisten to the Big Finish adaption before the podcast episode drops. Such a hardship. Jan 31, Lori S. Shelves: doctor-who-shelf , challenge , british-authors , 20th-century-lit , lgbtqa-et-al , gay-sf-f. This review will be some what chaotic, but it is what it is. I hope you're able to follow it. The song's playing in the background in the graveyard where poor Harry Harvey, a deeply conflicted gentleman, is nearly scared to death literally when something rises out a grave to kill a teenager about to threaten an old man's life with a knife. We'll follow him through his madness, interactions with the ghost of his This review will be some what chaotic, but it is what it is. We'll follow him through his madness, interactions with the ghost of his dead wife and his acceptance of who he is finally. It is questionable whether Harry's story is all that important to the book as a whole, but it is significant that both he, and his lodger, David Daniels, are in the book, along with the shadowy cruisers at Smithfield cemetery[1], and is mentioned in the UNIT logs at the end of the story[2]. It's a Sin by the Petshop Boys. Wanted Dead or Alive the well chosen ending song by Bon Jovi. And a poem by William Butler Yeats The Stolen Child Though the book came out in , the action takes place mainly in with trips back to and a brief glimpse of I liked this book. It's a real page turner and the characters, whether likeable or not, are well rounded and interesting. However, this is not a nice book. The Seventh Doctor is really dark in this book, the number of people destroyed in his wake is amazing, his attempts to stop the tragedy unfolding around him too little too late. For all his knowledge, he's unable to help the people in desperate need and the situation falls apart around him. His frustration with the people he's dealing with is palpable, used as he is to having his finger on the actual pulse in any situation, only to be stymied by the petty silence engendered by small lives. The basis for the story is that of two desperate women, one who wants to be a mother, the other who wants to keep her children safe. Eva Jericho is, in a word, a nut-job, or psychotic, take your pick. Definitely 'damaged goods' and mental. She's a woman who can not take responsibility for her own actions view spoiler [she blames her school rival for convincing her to shoplift to gain entry into an elite clique whilst at school. There's a new drug on the streets, a drug that's killing to a plan. Somehow, the very ordinary people of the Quadrant are involved. And so, amidst the growing chaos, a bizarre trio moves into number The year is : a dead drug dealer has risen from the grave, and an ancient weapon is concealed beneath human tragedy. But the Doctor soon discovers that the things people do for their children can be every bit as deadly as any alien menace - as he uncovers the link between a special child, an obsessive woman, and a desperate bargain made one dark Christmas Eve. The N-Form is an ancient Gallifreyan weapon, but this one is damaged. They were built for the war against the Great Vampires , so the damaged N-form has found a vampiric waveform, the boy Gabriel Tyler and his long lost twin brother that his mother gave away. Mrs Jericho has adopted Gabriel's twin, Steven. Gabriel is draining life from Steven and creating the vampiric waveform as the boys have psi powers. Mrs Jericho believes it to be unfair that Steven is the dying brother and thinks saying that is dying and seeks out Gabriel. Mrs Jericho has a Lithopedian: a "stone baby", a rare phenomenon which occurs most commonly when a foetus dies during an abdominal pregnancy, is too large to be reabsorbed by the body, and calcifies on the outside, shielding the mother's body from the dead tissue of the baby and preventing infection. This is Mrs Jericho's un-born child that she has always wanted and with the psi power of Steven has been giving this stone baby life driving Mrs Jericho insane. The story still feels Seventh Doctorish - with a immensely powerful being from the dawn of time hidi You know, I probably haven't read this for twenty years. The story still feels Seventh Doctorish - with a immensely powerful being from the dawn of time hiding in illegal drugs. I know. But that is what the New Adventures did. It's better than it sounds. It's great to hear both Chris and Roz, great companions from the NA range. It's a shame that Big Finish have halted the Novel Adaptations as there are plenty of others that deserve to be heard. In the meantime I'll work my way through the ones I haven't listened to. Recommended for Seventh Doctor fans as well as Ninth Doctor fans. See proto Russell T Davies at play. Dec 25, Lori S. Fairly true to the original novel. Well adapted, though I do question the line about Torchwood. May 14, Mel rated it really liked it Shelves: audio-book. This was very obviously a RTD story, there were council estates and gay characters and yet we had the 7th doctor instead of a new series Doctor. It was very enjoyable and definitely seemed to bridge the gap between the current series and the classic one. But I think this really showed that Big Finish will be able to do a wonderful job with the n This was very obviously a RTD story, there were council estates and gay characters and yet we had the 7th doctor instead of a new series Doctor. But I think this really showed that Big Finish will be able to do a wonderful job with the new series spin offs when they arrive. The story itself focused on a mother and her daughter and son, and an odd alien that was pushing drugs. It was a bit of an odd balance. It felt like RTD was trying to be more realistic with the story but it just felt a bit forced. There were some nice twists along the way, though I wasn't sure how believable they all were. Still an interesting adventure. Apr 14, Christopher Buchanan rated it really liked it Shelves: big-finish-novel-adaptations , doctor-who. This is one of those rare cases where the adaptation is actually better than the book. I was not a fan of Damaged Goods. It's a good enough story, but it just tries way too hard to be gritty and the violence goes WAY over the top. That is just not what I look for in a Doctor Who book. However, all that is somewhat downplayed in this audio, allowing the better aspects of the story to play through the gore and grit. Such as the great characters, relationships and the actual story itself. All of wh This is one of those rare cases where the adaptation is actually better than the book. All of which are well wrought. The little added tie-ins to the RTD era of the show were a nice touch too. On top of Big Finish actually managing to fix this story, the production values on this are particularly impressive. They really pulled all the stops on this one and it shows as a beautifully crafted soundscape and some great music. Very enjoyable listen. Nov 22, Gareth rated it really liked it. Good story and listen. The plot was interesting, with a few foreseen and some unforeseen twists in the tale. The Seventh Doctor was very good here, as were his two companions, Chris and Roz, who I had never read or heard before. The supporting cast were also very goo Good story and listen. The supporting cast were also very good here, and certainly echos of what the new series has been like with regards to the style and news report tidbits being heard. Dec 03, Danny Welch rated it it was amazing. Utterly amazing, so bleak and dark I love it. It's one of those rare audios that has appeared on my top 10 favourite Doctor audios list and what makes it even rarer is that it's actually my second favourite audio of all time now! Russell T Davies has truly written an amazing story with scares, emotion, realism and bleak and atmospheric story telling and Jonathan Morris does a brilliant adaptation, I can seriously see why this one won an award. Nov 03, Tomas rated it really liked it.

Doctor Who: Damaged Goods by Jonathan Morris

They are up to this one next and i thought I'd reread along. Next I need a relisten to the Big Finish adaption before the podcast episode drops. Such a hardship. Jan 31, Lori S. Shelves: doctor-who-shelf , challenge , british-authors , 20th-century-lit , lgbtqa-et-al , gay-sf-f. This review will be some what chaotic, but it is what it is. I hope you're able to follow it. The song's playing in the background in the graveyard where poor Harry Harvey, a deeply conflicted gentleman, is nearly scared to death literally when something rises out a grave to kill a teenager about to threaten an old man's life with a knife. We'll follow him through his madness, interactions with the ghost of his This review will be some what chaotic, but it is what it is. We'll follow him through his madness, interactions with the ghost of his dead wife and his acceptance of who he is finally. It is questionable whether Harry's story is all that important to the book as a whole, but it is significant that both he, and his lodger, David Daniels, are in the book, along with the shadowy cruisers at Smithfield cemetery[1], and is mentioned in the UNIT logs at the end of the story[2]. It's a Sin by the Petshop Boys. Wanted Dead or Alive the well chosen ending song by Bon Jovi. And a poem by William Butler Yeats The Stolen Child Though the book came out in , the action takes place mainly in with trips back to and a brief glimpse of I liked this book. It's a real page turner and the characters, whether likeable or not, are well rounded and interesting. However, this is not a nice book. The Seventh Doctor is really dark in this book, the number of people destroyed in his wake is amazing, his attempts to stop the tragedy unfolding around him too little too late. For all his knowledge, he's unable to help the people in desperate need and the situation falls apart around him. His frustration with the people he's dealing with is palpable, used as he is to having his finger on the actual pulse in any situation, only to be stymied by the petty silence engendered by small lives. The basis for the story is that of two desperate women, one who wants to be a mother, the other who wants to keep her children safe. Eva Jericho is, in a word, a nut-job, or psychotic, take your pick. Definitely 'damaged goods' and mental. She's a woman who can not take responsibility for her own actions view spoiler [she blames her school rival for convincing her to shoplift to gain entry into an elite clique whilst at school. The theft is petty at best and she got caught, so it's on her record, but it's such a minor offense it really has little real bearing in her life beyond the size it's taken on in her mind hide spoiler ] and she's had her life dream of having children torn apart by too many miscarriages. She is probably literature's most certainly my first serial shopper - she buys clothes only to mutilate them and return them as damaged goods to the shops. She's so desperate for children, she convinces her husband to purchase a child for her Winnie Tyler is a woman with a problem. Her husband has run off and left her with two children and another on the way, and a pile of debt. Desperate, Winnie makes a bargain, for a certain amount of money, she'll sell her baby, pull her family out of debt and take off for better climes. Except she has a secret and it's going to set in motion a chain of events which will lead to family tragedy Housing estates, tenements or projects. Big alien creatures to which a human can become attached: i. People caught up in a crisis. Children caught in the crossfire. Nov 03, Travis rated it liked it Shelves: doctor-who. The Seventh Doctor, Roz and Chris are on the trail of an alien drug and find themselves in a lower income apartment block. The Doctor finds himself out of his depth, dealing with 'normal' people, while Chris and Roz, two policemen from the future are able to blend in enough to gather info. There's some nice bits of Who history to keep the dark tone of this story from getting too heavy and a nice bit where you realize the desperate lengths people will go to can make them every bit as scary as an a The Seventh Doctor, Roz and Chris are on the trail of an alien drug and find themselves in a lower income apartment block. There's some nice bits of Who history to keep the dark tone of this story from getting too heavy and a nice bit where you realize the desperate lengths people will go to can make them every bit as scary as an alien menace. Sep 27, Mikey rated it really liked it. Russell T Davies is the man who brought Doctor Who back for a whole new generation. A council estate setting, a family of Tylers, an honest and som Wow Jan 29, Phillip rated it it was ok. So I was told this was an "R-rated" Doctor Who novel, which peaked my interest. I was certainly excited about an Eighth Doctor book, though disappointed it was with unfamiliar companions -- there are several allusions to ongoing stories, but since I haven't read any of The New Adventures, I was lost and just ignored it and had to pretend to know these "new" companions of Chris and Roz. RTD certainly creates some intriguing characters but -- without spoiling anything -- certainly not many sati So I was told this was an "R-rated" Doctor Who novel, which peaked my interest. RTD certainly creates some intriguing characters but -- without spoiling anything -- certainly not many satisfying conclusions for those characters. I did get a little confused in the last third with the N-whatever alien dimensions and the robot thing it created. And I think the R-rating whilst sex and drugs are mentioned is more to do with the death toll, which obviously is more gruesome than satisfying. I would say I was ultimately forcing myself to finish the book. I can see how it would be more interesting in an age when Who was off the screen, but I'm sure there are better ones out there. Feb 16, Aaron rated it really liked it. Never has Doctor Who been so grim and depressing. Good book! Oct 31, Allen rated it liked it. I'm gonna give this a reread. So I don't want to give this review yet, as I decide to listen to the audio first then read the book. Jun 27, James Lark added it Shelves: doctor-who. In the mid 80s, Doctor Who's script editor Eric Saward came under a fair bit of criticism for his predilection for gratuitous violence and the way he allowed characters to be pointlessly killed apparently for the sheer titillating hell of it, such as an episode where three characters went on an arduous journey to hijack a Cyber-spaceship only to be unceremoniously electrocuted at the end of it all. Well, Saward's got nothing on Russell T. This may surprise fans of the series of Doctor Who he eventually ended up running, but this book has more in common with his recent series 'Cucumber': a vast cast of characters, all of them flawed, nearly all of them deeply unpleasant, treated as cannon fodder literally or otherwise in this case, mostly literally. It's a relentlessly grim depiction of a relentlessly grim world, with even his trademark sarcastic humour largely absent. Somewhere in there is the Doctor himself, though amidst all the characters he struggles to make his presence felt, and doesn't even really feature in the story much. His companions get even shorter shrift - Roz is a shouty, embittered black woman and Chris is a different type of cannon fodder, this time to the inevitable gay subplot. Unusually, the seventh Doctor is not a master manipulator, but spends the whole story playing catch-up - one suspects he needn't have bothered turning up at all. It's no surprise to learn that Granada thought about commissioning it as a Doctorless drama. It's just as well that the mix of drugs, prostitution, dogging, self-harm and assorted gynaecological problems didn't form the backbone of Doctor Who when Russell T. Davies brought it back to TV though it would have been a more interesting series and in fact the gay sex element makes much more sense in the council estate setting than it did when Davies eventually introduced it to the TARDIS itself. As such, this is rather a curious footnote to the series: an arrogant and occasionally brilliant youthful work which somehow fails to capture any of the essence of the programme that inspired it. It's a pity, because he writes extremely well for the seventh Doctor, allowing him to be both mysterious and whimsical but avoiding the stock mannerisms that make so many of the New Adventures' depictions a little stilted. Indeed, the whole thing is nicely written, with fluid, creative prose and sparkling dialogue. The essential plot is extremely strong and has a powerful emotional centre, and the central character of Mrs Jericho is very well drawn indeed. Until the final act when the whole thing goes into the realm of undisciplined fantasy i. Just never a very enjoyable one. Apr 08, Nicholas Whyte rated it really liked it Shelves: doctor , who , 7th , , , na , xl. Davies is the only Who showrunner to have written a novel set in the Whoniverse before he took over, and this is it: published in , set in , and a really important taproot text for New Who and particularly for Rose , its very first episode. It's a complex plot with lots of elements, and Davies keeps all the balls in the air, juggling furiously. Even his monstrous maternal characters are a bit more sympathetic than they somehow ever came across on screen. I'm surprised that this isn't better known among fans; a lot of the elements that brought the show back are here, and also we can see some ways in which it might have gone differently. I would strongly recommend it to anyone interested in how New Who came to be the way it was in Sep 27, Adam Highway rated it really liked it. This is Russell T Davies writing Doctor Who as he should do, it's dark and nasty and violent and depressing and it's just completely perfect. It's telling to note how many elements of the series are already there I'm looking at you, Tyler family, but also the council estate setting, real life minutiae and even the cylindrical bins! Jul 29, John Parungao rated it liked it Shelves: read-dr-who. A book written by Russell T Davies, the man who would eventually bring Doctor Who back to television. You can see the seeds of Davies' vision for Doctor Who in this book. The contemporary setting, with an alien influence lurking in the shadows. Even some of the characters found on the local council block called the Quadrant seem to be prototypes for Rose Tyler and her family. It's interesting that this book was written in , long before Doctor Who made it back to TV screens. Look forward to f A book written by Russell T Davies, the man who would eventually bring Doctor Who back to television. Look forward to finishing this book. Shelves: science-fiction , read-in A continuity laden and slightly flawed book, but enjoyable if not entirely remarkable. Having not read these New Adventures novels as they came out, I find myself quite lost in the overarching metaplot, but RTD's version of the Seventh Doctor rings true as ever and provides a reliable center to a dark, despairing read. Sep 03, James Bowman rated it it was ok. Well-written and compelling, but the setting is so gritty that it's hard to really enjoy. Still, it is interesting to see lots of precursors to ideas he used in the New Series Mar 07, Clarissa Allen rated it really liked it. Don't use cocaine or your head will explode into a ginormous metal object and then go on a massive killing spree! And Lithopaedians are creepy! Sep 12, Christopher Buchanan rated it it was ok Shelves: doctor-who , virgin-new-adventures. View all 3 comments. Apr 28, Imperiatrix rated it it was amazing. May 30, Jess rated it it was amazing Shelves: 20th-century , fiction , sci-fi , doctor-who , mental-illness. Heavy on the ominous foreshadowing, climax a bit difficult to get your head around, but overall an outstanding book - not just as a Doctor Who adventure but on its own legs May 17, Shannon Appelcline rated it really liked it Shelves: doctor-who , science-fiction. A staff scriptwriter at Granada Television , he was beginning to move into adult television, writing for soap operas such as Families and Revelations , the latter of which he created. Despite being a professional writer and long-time Doctor Who fan, Davies had no initial interest in writing for Virgin's Doctor Who novel series, concentrating instead on his television career. With Doctor Who out of production, I suggested he'd be an ideal choice to write one of the novels, and gave him a contact at Virgin Publishing. Davies himself gave his own account of the book's origins in Doctor Who Magazine' s history of the New Adventures range. I bashed out the first two chapters in my spare time. I sent in this dead lazy submission, which just said, 'I've got no idea what happens in the end, but trust me. I write'. The arrogance of youth! However, Davies found himself commissioned to write for the range by Levene, with his book forming part of the 'Psi- Powers' arc which was overarching the storyline of the novels at the time, although Davies claimed: "I'm not sure I completely understood the Brotherhood arc to be honest! I just kept it vague and hoped someone else would make sense of it. There are several aspects of Damaged Goods which contain elements present throughout much of Davies's other work. The inclusion of a family named Tyler, in particular, is a trademark of the writer — Tylers also appear in Revelations , Queer as Folk , The Second Coming and the re-launch of Doctor Who itself. The scene in which Mrs Jericho prepares a dinner laced with rat poison for her husband is replicated almost exactly in the concluding episode of Davies's religious telefantasy drama The Second Coming , where the leading character of Judith prepares a similarly poisoned meal for her lover Steve. There is an even more direct link to Dark Season , with the novel's epilogue featuring a mention of the main character, Marcie, from that serial. Damaged Goods contains a gay character, David, and homosexuality is a recurring theme explored in much of Davies's writing, as he himself noted in an article for The Guardian newspaper in She was too busy taking over the world to do anything particularly lesbian, though she did keep a Teutonic Valkyrie by her side at all times Once I'd started, I never stopped I even wrote a Doctor Who novel in which the six-foot blond, blue- eyed companion interrupts the hunt for an interdimensional Gallifreyan War Machine to get a blowjob in the back of a taxi. Like you do. Davies's major breakthrough television series, Queer as Folk , was centred around the lives of three gay men in Manchester , one of whom, Vince Tyler, is portrayed as a fanatical Doctor Who fan. Although never clearly seen on screen, part of the set dressing for Vince's bedroom as seen in the first episode of the series was a copy of Damaged Goods , included as an in-joke by the set dressers. Purists might argue that a book full of sex, drugs and squalor can't really be Doctor Who , but they would be forgetting that the essence of the series and those like it is in portraying ordinary people's reactions to the unprecedented. It's done so brilliantly here that, much as I abhor scores, rankings and superlatives, I'll admit that Damaged Goods is currently my favourite New Adventure. However, not all readers agreed with Owen's assessment that the setting and themes of Damaged Goods were one of its strengths. I don't buy science fiction, especially not Doctor Who , for a lesson in modern sociology. I certainly would not have bought Damaged Goods had I known that is precisely what I would be getting. Generally, however, reaction to the novel was extremely positive, with other online reviews around the time of the book's release praising Davies's work. Certainly, Damaged Goods is one of the best novels Virgin has released in Sullivan's website also includes a monthly updated list of the most popular Doctor Who novels, "The Doctor Who Novel Rankings", based on votes e-mailed in by readers and running since As of the 4 January edition of the novel rankings, Damaged Goods was placed eighth in the list of most popular New Adventures novels. In , Doctor Who Magazine ran their own one-off readers' poll to find the most popular New Adventures as part of their celebrations of Doctor Who' s 35th anniversary. Damaged Goods received votes from readers, with an average score of 7. After having been commissioned to write the novel, Davies had originally planned to take three months off writing for television in order to complete it. He was then also commissioned to write for two major ITV television series, leaving him very short of time in which to complete the book, eventually writing the manuscript in only five weeks. 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