Subject:      The Eye of the Giant - review by the Happy Guy
From:         gaffney@iconn.net (Sean Gaffney)
Date:         1996/05/13
Message-Id:   <4n8f7k$lg2@news.iconn.net>
Organization: i-Conn
Newsgroups:   rec.arts.drwho

Don't ask.  It's just been a bad last few weeks.  Anyway, the
review is *finally* here, and it follows thus:

SPOILERS!

Pretty damn good book.  Not as good as Sorceror's Apprentice,
but it's no Shadowmind, either.

Plot:  Fiendish, perhaps the main reason to read the book.  It's got
one of those classic fifth episode "Whoops, something completely
different has now gone horribly wrong!" type dealies.

Doctor:  Very Pertwee-ish, in a good way.  He doesn't get a lot of
action, but he gets to do a lot of science.  And relatively little
patronizing.

Liz:  OK, if a little underwritten.

UNIT:  The Brig is great, Mike is very well done, and Benton is
Benton.  I like the Osgood bits, too.  He really is useless, isn't he?

Others:  Nancy is a pretty lousy villain, but then she would be.  I
kept hearing Sandra Dickinson reading those lnes.  Amelia is almost
too good to be true.  The others were pretty interchangeable.

Overall:  Pretty good, but I'm not wild over it.  7/10.

Next (in a week or two):  The Sands of Time

--Sean Gaffney
--"You git!  I thought you were dead!  Git git git!" - Benny, No Future