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Originally Posted by bert501
I had the same thoughts when I read Silhouette by Justin Richards. It was also a pretty good Doctor Who novel made better by the inclusion of Madame Vastra, Jenny and Strax.
The problem was just what you said: it had to have been written so far in advance of the new series to get the release dates to synch up that the Doctor character really suffers. I wasn't that big a fan of Clara in it, either; but she's starting to get on my nerves in the TV show so that may just be me!
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I haven't yet read the other two (although I want to) but yeah, I can very much see "generic Doctor with some of Twelve's physical characteristics thrown in" being a common thread in all of them.
I actually really like Clara in the new series - I gave up watching new!Who mid-season 6 and only watched the very occasional episode since then, but she didn't impress me at all in the few Eleven episodes with her that I saw. Now though ... I don't quite care for the
specialness of her character, but I really feel Coleman has a lot of chemistry with Capaldi and I've been enjoying all Twelve & Clara interaction on screen so far. This is missing from the book, though, although granted, it'd be
very difficult to show a similar level of interaction, with the same kind of chemistry, in a book.