Faction Paradox: A Somewhat Sloppy Beginners' Guide I Wrote on my Work Breaks Last Week
Faction Paradox has garnered a reputation among Doctor Who fans as the series’ most obtuse, inaccessible spin-off. This isn’t entirely unfair, it’s been saddled with some awful marketing over the years and it’s certainly plenty alienating at times. It’s kind of hard to explain to people, even close friends who know I’ve followed it closely since high school. After carefully considering things for a while I've come up with the following post, which is split in two parts: an introduction to Faction Paradox, the fictional setting and an introduction to Faction Paradox, the series. The latter is the more important matter, in my opinion, but the former is also obviously really important to a newcomer. So, ah. If you want to imagine the world of Faction Paradox it wouldn't be a bad idea to take a look at how Eccleston and Tenannt used to describe the Time War. Before it actually appeared, it seemed like this impossible mythical clash between factions of gods who could change all of h...