Doctor Who: The Scapegoat
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Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome to the Theatre des Baroque!"
Oh, but if you think you’ve seen and heard all that Paris by night has to offer... the exotic sights of Le Moulin Rouge, perhaps, or the horror tricks of Le Grand Guignol... if you think nothing could cause your mouth to dry and your heart to pound... you're wrong. Ladies and gentlemen, mesdames et messieurs – not forgetting our honoured guests from the Gestapo – tonight, it is my privilege to present to you the star of the Theatre des Baroque! A man who has died on stage near ten thousand times! The Most Assassinated Man in the World… Max Paul! And joining him, in a playlet we call 'The Executioner's Son' – from Blackpool, England: the enchanting Lucie Miller! Ah, la belle Lucie. She's got no idea what she's let herself in for. Heh. Should you feel faint, or nauseous – never fear. Tonight, we have a Doctor in the house! Just pray he lasts ’til the interval...
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54 primary books66 released booksEighth Doctor Adventures
Eighth Doctor Adventures is a 66-book series with 54 primary works first released in 1998 with contributions by Eddie Robson, Paul Sutton, and Jonathan Blum.
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One of the weaker 8th Doc offerings, this features goat-like aliens in Nazi-occupied Paris. The aliens, unfortunately, come across as a bit ridiculous, if rather unpleasant. The Gestapo, on the other hand, come across simply as buffoons, more the butt of a joke than anything else. And Lucie isn't terribly well used, either, doing a fair bit of screaming, and somehow deciding that the aliens really have to be just men in masks (after the number of indisputable aliens she's met?)
So, on the whole, really not all that impressive, although it's well enough done and there's some nice ideas in there somewhere, to do with the aliens' illusion technology and the like. It's a good deal gorier than usual, with the main setting being a Grand Guignol-like theatre, which may appeal to you or it may not. It didn't to me, and that's probably a large part of why I'm not too keen on the piece overall.
