Doctor Who: Winner Takes All
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Will Rose be able to save her family and friends from the alien threat? And can the Doctor play the game to the end -- and win?
This is the third in a new series of original adventures featuring the Ninth Doctor and Rose. Believing that she heard the sound of a scuffle over the phone, Rose asks the Doctor to take her home to check.
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To her relief, Jackie is fine; she just left the flat to intervene when one of her neighbours, Jade, was threatened by a thug named Darren Pye. Jackie also explains that she won a computer games console on a new scratchcard promotion; the cards are being given away with grocery purchases, and students dressed in giant porcupine costumes are handing out games consoles or free holiday tickets to the winners from a booth on the High Street. Since Jackie had no interest in the console, she gave it to Mickey. Rose pops out to the shops for some milk, but runs into Darren Pye. She tries not to let him provoke her into a fight, but when he starts throwing rocks at Mrs Desai, she intervenes -- and Darren pulls a knife on her.
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The Doctor shows up at the last moment and drives Darren off, explaining that Mickey invited him to leave when the Doctor effortlessly beat his high score. Neither the Doctor nor Mickey is aware yet that their progress was being monitored on the planet Toop, where the porcupine-like Quevvils have been eagerly waiting for a player capable of finishing the game. When she and the Doctor return, however, they find Mickey gone, a smell of teleportation in the air, and claw marks on the kicked-in door.
The Doctor realises that the aliens came for him but got Mickey instead, and since he has no idea where to start looking for them, he decides to play another game and lure them back. This time, the Doctor starts the game from the introductory screen, which establishes the nature of the game; presumably, the story it is telling is the truth, as nobody on Earth would believe it. The Quevvils and Mantodeans are at war, and the Mantodeans have developed a force field keyed to Quevvil biology that prevents the Quevvils from breaking into their fortress.
The Quevvils have thus searched the galaxy for another species they can use as warriors, and have settled on humans.
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Human agents will be transported to the entrance of the Mantodean fortress with a short-range disruptor capable of shutting down Mantodean technology; they must make their way to the computer complex at the centre of the fortress, at which point the Quevvils will activate the disruptor, shutting down the force field so they can teleport inside.
This time, the Doctor does not shoot the Mantodeans; he simply evades them, racks up a high score and then stops playing, forcing the Quevvils to come fetch him. One of the cards wins her a game console, and she uses it to enter the booth.
Once inside, she pours salt over the trap door leading to the Quevvil base. The Quevvil in the booth immediately starts licking the salt off the floor, and Rose slips out of the booth and back down to the cellars, where she sees the other Quevvils climbing up into the booth to get to the salt.
Once the coast is clear, Rose enters their base and frees the Doctor and Mickey.
Rather than escape straight away, the Doctor continues to play the game, as he wants to confirm a nasty suspicion. The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to bypass the block, and when the two player characters come within sight of one another, Mickey recognises both players as local people who won a holiday on the scratchcards.
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Winner Takes All was the third novel in the BBC New Series Adventures series. It was written by Jacqueline Rayner and featured the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler. Rose and the Doctor return to present-day Earth, and become intrigued by the latest craze — the video game Death to. Winner Takes All is a BBC Books original novel written by Jacqueline Rayner and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
The book DOES have a decent message about free will, war not being a game, not letting others fight your battles for you, and how selfish and greedy people can sometimes be. I just wish it was being told in a plot I haven't seen over and over. While this isn't the worst Doctor Who novel I've read by any means, I've seen much better and more clever. Thankfully, the book isn't very long and can be breezed through in an afternoon. If you need to satisfy your Doctor Who fix, then give this a read Ok, first of all.
I'm also a videogame nut. Just figured I'd disclose that at the begining.
Jacqueline Rayner does a skillful job of quickly taking you down another believable path with information that was set up previously in the book. The thief has gone by the time she investigates, but Mickey, slowly recovering, urges her to get out and start collecting the games before anyone else will be killed. Also some female bonding with Rose and Daisy, a woman Robert's mother whom she encounters inside the 'game'. Hardcover , pages. Worst of all, this contains probably the most boring, forgettable villains ever, who receive no kind of backstory or development or explanation for why they're fighting. The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to bypass the block, and when the two player characters come within sight of one another, Mickey recognises both players as local people who won a holiday on the scratchcards. Ghost Walk review May 31,
I loved the idea of aliens using videogames as a way of fighting a war, and the interesting moral concept of controlling people and the difference between Fantacy violence and real life violence. Course this is the same genius who went on to write Stone Rose. Rayner's interpretation of 9 is beautiful.
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Cheerful and sassy at times, intimidating and indignant at others, but always kind and heroic. And the rivalry between him and Mickey is just as good as anything on the show! It eveb has protective Jackie at her best! And the world of Troop, the porcupine Qweevils and the Mantis-like Mantaedonians, the imagery Rayner writes, the action and plot twists, it really sucks you in abs feels like it could actually be an episode.
Definately a must-have for fans of Doctor Who and videogames. Rose convinces the Doctor to make a quick trip back to present-day Earth to visit her mother, Jackie, who's just won a holiday in a sweepstakes competition. The Doctor, who has little patience for Rose's family and her on-again, off-again boyfriend Mickey, soon suspects that this trip to Earth may not be wasted time after all.
The newest videogame craze, Death to Mantodeans, is taking Rose's neighborhood by storm, and when people start disappearing - including Jackie - the game turns out to be a very real, very alien threat to humans. Since Christopher Eccleston only brought his unique and unforgettable spin to the Doctor's character for only one season, it's nice to have additional adventures available that help flesh out his time and relationship with Rose.