Mark's Reviews > Doctor Who: The Time Travellers

I was excited about trying another First Doctor PDA after surprising myself at how brilliant ‘City at World’s End’ was. Unfortunately, this just didn’t match up. The first two thirds feel very repetitive and largely uneventful. Things do pick up after an important turning point and the final act was far more gripping, but it took a while to get there. I was impressed by how much ‘City at World’s End’ feels like an original science-fiction novel in its own right rather than a contrived spin on some Doctor Who lore. There are points where ‘The Time Travellers’ comes closer to this, but often it can’t help but feel like a long-winded way of trying to solve the ‘you can’t change history’ problem and give a little more impetus for the Doctor’s eventual abandonment of Susan in the televised show. It goes some way to fill these holes but not without feeling shoehorned and detracting from the engagement of its own story.