Post by MS on Jan 20, 2023 7:47:53 GMT
Chemistry is a short story in the anthology book Doctor Who: Origin Stories and it has been available for free on the official Doctor Who website:
www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/read-an-ace-origin-story-by-sophie-aldred
Origin Stories is a collection of stories that looks at the early lives of friends and foes of the Doctor prior to meeting the Doctor.
For Chemistry it is an origin story about Ace and written by Ace herself Sophie Aldred.
Chemistry is undoubtedly a reference to chemistry being Ace's favourite subject at school especially since it helped make her favourite explosive Nitro-9.
This featured her friends who viewers had met in Survival.
Also present here is a new teacher, a teacher I knew was the Doctor even though Aldred did not specifically stated as such.
I thought the teacher here was the Tenth Doctor especially since this Doctor was seen as one in School Reunion.
However I was surprised to read from TARDIS Wiki that it wasn't the Tenth Doctor but instead the Thirteenth Doctor.
The Thirteenth Doctor is a woman and I glanced back at the story and noticed that Aldred actually avoided using any pronouns to described the teacher's gender
Aldred had written a Thirteenth Doctor-Ace meeting in her novel At Childhood's End and also Aldred would reprised Ace on television meeting the Thirteen Doctor as played by Jodie Whittaker in Jodie's finale The Power of the Doctor.
Enjoyable story which culminated with Ace having an unwilling meeting with the headmaster Mr Michaels but Mr Michaels is not all that he seems.
Of course the Doctor comes in to save Ace and Aldred provides an explanation of why Ace would not remember any of this when she eventually meets and travels with the Seventh Doctor.