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{{Infobox Story | {{Infobox Story SMW | ||
|image = DWA CS 018.jpg | |||
|image= DWA CS 018.jpg | |series = [[DWA comic stories]] | ||
|series=[[DWA comic stories]] | |doctor = Tenth Doctor | ||
|doctor= Tenth Doctor | |||
|companions= [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] | |companions= [[Rose Tyler|Rose]] | ||
|enemy= [[Perfect Paris|The Façade]] | |enemy = [[Perfect Paris|The Façade]] | ||
|setting= [[Paris]] [[December]] | |setting = [[Paris]], [[December]] | ||
|writer= | |writer = Davey Moore | ||
|artist= [[John Ross]] | |artist = [[John Ross]] | ||
|colourist= [[Adrian Salmon]] | |colourist = [[Adrian Salmon]] | ||
|letterer= [[Paul Lang]] | |letterer = [[Paul Lang]] | ||
|editor= [[Moray Laing]] | |editor = [[Moray Laing]] | ||
|publication= [[DWA 18]]-[[DWA 19|19]] | |publication= [[DWA 18]]-[[DWA 19|19]] | ||
|release date= | |release date= 29 November - 13 December 2006 | ||
|publisher= BBC Magazines | |publisher = BBC Magazines | ||
|format= Comic | |format = Comic | ||
|prev= Gangster's Paradise | |epcount = 2 | ||
|next= The Hunters (comic story) | |prev = Gangster's Paradise (comic story) | ||
|next = The Hunters (comic story) | |||
}} | }} | ||
'''''A Date to Remember''''' was a [[Doctor Who Adventures comic stories|''Doctor Who Adventures'' comic story]] featuring the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Rose Tyler]]. | '''''A Date to Remember''''' was a [[Doctor Who Adventures comic stories|''Doctor Who Adventures'' comic story]] featuring the [[Tenth Doctor]] and [[Rose Tyler]]. | ||
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== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
=== A Date to Remember (part one) === | === A Date to Remember (part one) === | ||
Expecting [[the TARDIS]] to arrive at [[Christmas]] [[2009]], [[Rose Tyler]] is delighted to find it's spring in [[Perfect Paris]]. It's all there: shopping, people watching, sight seeing at the [[Louvre]], [[croissant]]s and [[cocoa|hot chocolate]], [[chip]]s and [[ketchup]] and mime artists bearing [[flower]]s. | Expecting [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] to arrive at [[Christmas]] [[2009]], [[Rose Tyler]] is delighted to find it's spring in [[Perfect Paris]]. It's all there: shopping, people watching, sight seeing at the [[Louvre]], [[croissant]]s and [[cocoa|hot chocolate]], [[chip]]s and [[ketchup]] and mime artists bearing [[flower]]s. | ||
Yet all is not as it seems. The people are uncommunicative and keep disappearing and unobtrusive [[Perfect Paris|robot guards]] are everywhere. When a group of resistance fighters cause havoc in the square, the robot guards attack with containment cubes and Rose is snatched and dragged through a portal that opens up in front of the Doctor. | Yet all is not as it seems. The people are uncommunicative and keep disappearing and unobtrusive [[Perfect Paris|robot guards]] are everywhere. When a group of resistance fighters cause havoc in the square, the robot guards attack with containment cubes and Rose is snatched and dragged through a portal that opens up in front of the Doctor. | ||
=== Snow Fakes (part two) === | === Snow Fakes (part two) === | ||
On the other side of the portal that was created by the Resistance using a glitch in the system, Rose finds herself in the "real" [[Paris]]. The resistance fighters, led by [[Jean-Paul]] and [[Esme (A Date to Remember)|Esme]] are determined to destroy [[Perfect Paris|the Facade]], a computer programme that enhances people's perceptions in and of [[Perfect Paris]]. Everything Rose and the Doctor had seen was a synthetic or carefully controlled construction. | On the other side of the portal that was created by the Resistance using a glitch in the system, Rose finds herself in the "real" [[Paris]]. The resistance fighters, led by [[Jean-Paul (A Date to Remember)|Jean-Paul]] and [[Esme (A Date to Remember)|Esme]] are determined to destroy [[Perfect Paris|the Facade]], a computer programme that enhances people's perceptions in and of [[Perfect Paris]]. Everything Rose and the Doctor had seen was a synthetic or carefully controlled construction. | ||
Fighting for a return of "reality", the Resistance has obtained and uses a computer virus that causes the Façade to break down. As the "real" replaces the | Fighting for a return of "reality", the Resistance has obtained and uses a computer virus that causes the Façade to break down. As the "real" replaces the "unreal", a control room is exposed. In it, a human operator connected by a drip has become enslaved to the Facade, maintaining it since he was a child, a slave to the machine that would create the perfect city for people to live in. Once freed, the work of rebuilding the city begins. | ||
== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
* [[Tenth Doctor]] | * [[Tenth Doctor]] | ||
* [[Rose Tyler]] | * [[Rose Tyler]] | ||
* [[Jean-Paul]] | * [[Jean-Paul (A Date to Remember)|Jean-Paul]] | ||
* [[Esme (A Date to Remember)|Esme]] | * [[Esme (A Date to Remember)|Esme]] | ||
* [[Perfect Paris|The Facade Operator]] | * [[Perfect Paris|The Facade Operator]] | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
=== Locations === | |||
* The Doctor and Rose window shop at a [[Boutique (A Date to Remember)|boutique]]. | |||
* The Doctor and Rose visit the [[Louvre]]. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* This is [[Rose Tyler]]'s last appearance as the Doctor's travelling companion in ''Doctor Who Adventures''. | * This is [[Rose Tyler]]'s last appearance as the Doctor's travelling companion in ''Doctor Who Adventures''. | ||
=== Original print details === | === Original print details === | ||
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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* Once again in [[Paris]], the Doctor visits the [[Louvre]] to view the [[Mona Lisa]] painting, having previously visited it in [[TV]]: ''[[City of Death]]''. | * Once again in [[Paris]], the Doctor visits the [[Louvre]] to view the ''[[Mona Lisa]]'' painting, having previously visited it in [[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]''. | ||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
{{dwrefguide|dwacomic10.htm#dwa18|A Date to Remember / Snow Fakes}} | |||
{{Tenth Doctor DWA comics}} | |||
{{TitleSort}} | {{TitleSort}} | ||
[[Category:Stories set in Paris]] | [[Category:Stories set in Paris]] | ||
[[Category:Stories set at Christmas]] | [[Category:Stories set at Christmas]] | ||
[[Category:Tenth Doctor DWA comic stories]] | [[Category:Tenth Doctor DWA comic stories]] | ||
[[Category:2006 comic stories]] | [[Category:2006 comic stories]] | ||
[[Category:Two part comics]] | |||