Doctor Who Fairytale Life #3

Yeah- I was right. The plot to A Fairy Tale Life is taken from the Season 6 episode of Doctor Who called 'The Black Spot.' In that episode, a crashed medical bay’s AI nurse malfunctions and captures pirates stranded at sea when they become ill or injured.

Here, the residents of the Fairy Tale planet are whisked away to the Black Tower when they are ill by flying Medical signs. I kid you not! Only, when they take you back to the Tower’s medical bay, you are scheduled for termination. In this issue, Amy awakes in the medical bay facing death from an incurable disease, while the Doctor and a knight travel to the Tower in search of lost friends and answers.

I’m having trouble rating this book because the plot was used from a recent episode of Doctor Who. The publication time and the time of the show’s airing are so close together, I find it hard that either media plagiarized the other. But shouldn’t show producer, Steven Moffat, or another high up have realized the similarity of the two and made some sort of plot change? Talk about your morphic fields (It’s a Torchwood reference, look it up!)

I liked this book. I just think it’s weird that both a comic mini and an episode would operate under almost identical plotlines and not go undetected.

I’ll rate it worth consuming with a big fat asterisk.

Rating: 7 out of 10 stars.