The Doctor receives a distress call from an old friend. Upon materializing inside the TARDIS, the Doctor, along with Amy and Rory, finds himself in an alien insane asylum where many of the Doctor's oldest enemies have had their brains placed into a race of sentient vegetable people. Of course, this is all a trap for a mad scientist to kidnap the last Timelord and put his brain into a body that can regenerate! But when the dormant personalities of the inmates come back to life, the Doctor and the Ponds find themselves in a scenario straight out of 28 Days Later!
An interesting story that seems to have copied elements from 12th Doctor Neil Gaiman tale The Doctor's Wife, a Fourth Doctor yarn called Meglos, and that two-
parter about the Flesh. Oddly, I think this book was written before the Gaiman penned episode or the Flesh stories of season 6. So, I guess that's forgivable. But the switching brains/ bodies with the Doctor storyline has been done to death and is not excusable.
Worth Consuming
Rating: 8 out of 10 stars.
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