The fundamentals are basically there, with the Doctor meeting a writer in 1847 before he has become famous and avoiding the paradox of revealing his future while also telling him his own past adventures and defeating the 'ideous monster. But I'm not a fan of Richard Franklin's Mike Yates, who is the companion in this pay, and I also felt the story lost contextual weight by using a fictional writer as its central character, where the first two in the series had the Emperor Claudius and Toulouse-Lautrec and his circle. ( )