TBH, it wasn't half-bad and in reading I noted it didn't even start with "It was a dark and stormy night."
Okay, before I get to the good stuff I still want to whine: The written piece still had some questionable moments about a trampoline factory and to a lesser extent planet FixleMixleplyk moments but, forget the nitpicks as part of me chuckled anyway, when all is summed up Chris would be rather good as a novelist of children's books as he has a certain panache that was rather quite decent.
If you're still reading, thank you kindly. It only gets better from here on.
He's also able to add in stuff he wasn't able to do on screen in TWWFTE, which potentially might have helped on screen or at least add an added perspective. But reading it does allow for more to be processed than watching it, which would be easier to misconstrue.
Yes, it's known I personally prefer DW being for the whole family or adults (without having to dumb themselves down) or older teenagers and not just kiddy-fluff-centric, but on paper he's no hack. He's very engaging, surprisingly and not unpleasantly so. Pleasantly, in fact. Even with the arm flapping Wile E Coyote stuff, which a lot of adults would like and noting Wile E was not originally meant for kids either... and sometimes, having preferred most of Classic WHO where they take it all seriously that most of NuWHO by comparison inverts the tables and almost never takes itself seriously... I'll try to lighten up a bit. But I still prefer Doctor Ruth for now...
P.S. His adding in post-regeneration healing after crashing through the train helped very nicely. (One could figure it out on screen, though on paper it seemed easier to suspend disbelief.)
P.P.S. "Dematerialexploding" was a nice touch.
