Revolution Man
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| Revolution Man | |
| Series: | Doctor Who - BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures |
| Release Number: | 21 |
| Doctor: | Eighth Doctor |
| Companions: | Sam Jones, Fitz Kreiner |
| Enemy: | Ed Hill |
| Setting: | Earl’s Court Station, June, 1967 East Worldham, 5th June 1968 The Chairman Mao Ideal Collective, Sichuan Province, China, 1969 Ramsgate, 14th February, 1969 Total Liberation Brigade House, 18th May, 1969 Wembley Stadium 18th May, 1969 |
| Author: | Paul Leonard |
| Publisher: | BBC Books |
| Publication: | April, 1999 |
| Format: | Paperback Book, 251 Pages |
| ISBN: | ISBN 0-563-55570-X |
| Previous Story: | Demontage |
| Following Story: | Dominion |
Contents |
[edit] Publisher’s Summary
1967: The Revolution has just started. All you need is love -- but the ability to bend space and time helps. An entity called the Revolution Man is writing his graffiti across the surface of the Earth, using a drug called Om-Tsor.
Trouble is, none of this was supposed to happen. The Doctor knows that the Revolution Man isn’t for real, that he’s part of the problem, not part of the solution. But how is he going to convince the flower children? How is he going to convince Sam? And he doesn’t dare tell Fitz...
1968: The Chinese People’s Army want to defeat the capitalists. Om-Tsor is the most powerful means available, and the source is on their doorstep. If half of India is immolated - well you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs...
1969: The Revolution Man has decided. Mankind is evil, not good. The only way forward is to destroy all of it. The Doctor and Sam struggle to find him but time is running out...
[edit] Characters
- Mentions the Brigadier and yetis in the Underground.
- Mentions his association with Chairman Mao.
- Takes a lot of Om-Tsor to telekinetically stop missiles around the world.
- Shoots Ed Hill, killing him
- Mentions having; been on the "front line" and "killing people".
- It is four years ago in Sam's personal timeline that she and the Doctor were in Los Angeles fighting vampires.
- Sam's passport (that the Doctor gives her) gives her name as Mrs Evelyn Smith.
- Dials a number in Kent to get the Doctor's location.
- Blames Fitz for creating a situation where the Doctor had to shoot someone.
- Fitz recalls events on Vega Station.
- Pretends to be a Psychic Investigator.
- Fitz leaves the TARDIS for two years.
- When Fitz leaves the TARDIS the Doctor gives him bonds and credit cards.
- Gets brain washed by the Communist China and ends up back involved with the Doctor whilst negotiating a bomb / Om-Tsor trade deal.
- Shoots Ed Hill, trying to save himself, Maddie and the world, probably.
- An anarchist.
- Poses as the Revolution Man.
- Is part of the Total Liberation Brigade.
- Ed Hill
- Is the revolution man.
- Ends up with a damaged spine and uses Om-Tsor to mentally project himself.
- Attempts to use Om-Tsor to repair the damage to his spine, but can't but discovers how to use Om-Tsor and mental coercion to manipulate people, it doesn't work on people who have already been brainwashed.
- is shot by Fitz and again by the Doctor, it is the Doctor's shot that kills him.
- Ed Hill's girlfriend for a time.
- Fitz's friend, possibly girlfriend for a time.
- Following Ed's death Maddiie goes on to form a Revolution Man cult and dies in 1973 from a drug overdose.
[edit] References
- Om-Tsor, the closest 'accurate' name is Rubasdpofiaew. Om-Tsor was also the name the Tibetan monks gave to it.
- Fitz shoots Ed Hill, which throws his Om-Tsor powers out of control, the Doctor shoots Ed killing him to prevent his powers running away into the Eye of Harmony and destroying the Earth.
[edit] TARDISes
- Fitz wonders to himself if the TARDIS or its telepathic circuits can "alter perceptions, perform mental conjuring tricks that made its inhabitants invisible except when they wanted to be seen."
- The Doctor has mentioned the chameleon circuit to Fitz in relation to why the TARDIS looks like a police box.
- The Doctor gives Fitz a card that can summon the Doctor's TARDIS in an emergency.
- Whilst monitoring spacial anomalies the TARDIS shouldn't be moved.
[edit] Timeline
- 18th May 1969 could have been the end of the world and the beginning of World War III had
- Fitz leaves the TARDIS for two years of 'his' time, but this is about a week for the Doctor and Sam.
[edit] Races and species
- Sam wonders to herself who might have the technology to melt stone, wondering out loud if it could be the Selachians or the Zygons.
[edit] Notes
- The name on Sam's passport is Mrs Evelyn Smith, which is remarkably similar to Evelyn Smythe a companion of the Sixth Doctor in Big Finish Productions' The Marian Conspiracy, it could be seen as and effort to tie the ranges together, however the audio was released a year after this novel.
[edit] Continuity
- Sam references having killed someone; EDA: Genocide.
- The Doctor refers to the events of DW: The Web of Fear and his subsequent meeting with the Brigadier following his regeneration; DW: Spearhead from Space.
- Fitz recalls events from EDA: Demontage.
- Sam recalls four years previous, fighting vampires in Los Angeles; EDA: Vampire Science and alternate worlds Genocide.
- Sam says "How many revolutions have you been in lately? I've been in two - no, three. And a couple of rather nasty wars, and some protests.", she mentions being at a Greenpeace protest in EDA: Vampire Science, she was involved in the Dalek civil war in War of the Daleks, involved in another protest in Seeing I, she was in a revolution of sorts in The Scarlet Empress.
- This novel is the first of four visits in a row the Doctor makes to Earth to deal with temporal anomalies, the next are EDA: Dominion, Unnatural History and Autumn Mist. The reasons for these visits are revealed in EDA: The Shadows of Avalon.
- NA: Cat's Cradle: Warhead, Warlock and Warchild also feature an alien plant, which is a drug that causes psychic powers for the user.
[edit] External Links
- Doctor Who Reference Guide - Detailed Synopsis - Revolution Man
- The Whoniverse - The Discontinuity Guide to: Revolution Man
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