Doctor Who:
The Rings of Akhaten
By Neil Cross
“We Don’t Walk Away”
The Doctor asks Clara
where she wants to go and she replies that she wants to go somewhere awesome. So he takes her to The Rings of Akhaten which
is part of a seven planet solar system and the species believe all life started
on a small planet in their system. The
pair goes on to explore the marketplace and Clara is exposed to all sorts of
different alien races. Clara meets a
young girl named Merry who is the Queen of Years and she is afraid of singing a
song to the Grandfather. Clara convinces
her to go back and do what she has to and that everything will be fine. But
everything isn’t fine as Merry makes a mistake with the song and the gods are
angry and The Doctor and Clara must come up with a way to save Merry and
everyone else on Akhaten.
After the good start to
the continuation of Series 7 with “The Bells of Saint John” we are treated to “The Rings of Akhaten” by
Doctor Who newcomer Neil Cross who is in fact the creator and head writer for
the crime series Luther. A highly
critical acclaimed series and one of the BBC’s top shows and one that is really
good in my opinion. So now he turns his attention to science
fiction and more importantly to Doctor Who. Will his story for Series 7 be a
good one or should it be booked for bad television.
