History YMMV / EighthDoctorAdventures

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Talking poodles, alien tigers who long to learn to play music, the entirety of ''The Blue Angel''-- the [=EDAs=] bring the crack.

* FanonDiscontinuity: The series' Dalek books are almost universally reviled by fans for upending Dalek/Skaro canon.

* FoeYay: [[PungeonMaster The Doctor]] mostly just thinks it's hilarious that Sabbath literally "stole his heart", but there is quite a lot of legitimate sexual tension. ''Camera Obscura'' really lays it on thick between the Doctor and Sabbath (flirting, kissing, generally getting all up close and personal), and in ''Sometime Never'', Sabbath actually admits he's "more than a little fond of" the Doctor. (Aww.) Well, with the Master gone, the Doctor clearly needs a recurring FriendlyEnemy to have sexual tension with, right? More on the [[FoeYay/DoctorWho Doctor Who Foe Yay]] page. It seems like Lloyd Rose [[AuthorAppeal likes this trope]], since in ''City of the Dead'', one of the villains is a MadArtist who makes a bit of a fuss over the Doctor's attractiveness, and another one who... well.
-->'[...]You're my key. Or my bait. Probably both. But in either case -' he traced a forefinger along the Doctor's long upper lip - 'you're all mine.'
-->The Doctor twisted away but Dupre tightened his grip, holding him still. 'You can't get free,' he said softly. 'I've made very sure of that.' He slid his hand down to the Doctor's chest.

** By the end of the series, [[spoiler:Gallifrey is destroyed and all the Time Lords have retreated into the matrix]]. In a 2013 issue of ''Doctor Who Magazine'', it was revealed that the secret backstory to ''WebAnimation/ScreamOfTheShalka'', by coincidence, also involved those same plot points.

* HarsherInHindsight: ''The Gallifrey Chronicles'' include a line about "[[Creator/AntAndDec Dec [being] fine, but there was no sign of Ant]]". In 2018, the dua went through a separation period when Ant went to rehab following a charge of drunk driving.
* HilariousInHindsight: In ''The Adventures Of Henrietta Street'', Fitz' comments about the TARDIS being "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue" are this after [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]].
** By the end of the series, [[spoiler:Gallifrey is destroyed and all the Time Lords have retreated into the matrix]]. In a 2013 issue of Doctor Who Magazine, it was revealed that the secret backstory to ''WebAnimation/ScreamOfTheShalka'', by coincidence, also involved those same plot points.

** The Doctor has a sometimes-tempestuous, sometimes-adorable relationship in ''[[Recap/EighthDoctorAdventuresTheYearOfIntelligentTigers The Year of Intelligent Tigers]]'' with composer Karl Sadeghi. Karl spends most of the book being very obliquely in love with him, waxing poetic about the Doctor ''constantly''[[note]] Karl watched the Doctor doze. He had flopped back on to the soft grass, his golden-brown hair spreading around his face. The bright sunshine highlighted the exotic whiteness of his skin.[[/note]] [[note]] The numen had left the Doctor: he was no longer a god of thunder, but only a beautiful man lying in the grass.[[/note]]

* OlderThanTheyThink

* UnfortunateImplications: When Fitz first meets Sam, she winds up sleeping off a concussion. Unsurprisingly, she's a little out of it when she wakes up, and Fitz spends a while pretending they'd slept together, and acting hurt that she doesn't remember. It's PlayedForLaughs, but he's essentially trying to convince Sam he'd [[DateRape date raped]] her. And to make it even worse, he gets completely naked for the sake of his little joke at her expense, which is pretty much indecent exposure.

* HarsherInHindsight: ''The Gallifrey Chronicles'' include a line about "[[AntAndDec Dec [being] fine, but there was no sign of Ant]]". In 2018, the dua went through a separation period when Ant went to rehab following a charge of drunk driving.

* TheScrappy: Samantha Jones.

%%* UnfortunateImplications: When Fitz first meets Sam, she winds up sleeping off a concussion. Unsurprisingly, she's a little out of it when she wakes up, and Fitz spends a while pretending they'd slept together, and acting hurt that she doesn't remember. It's PlayedForLaughs, but he's essentially trying to convince Sam he'd [[DateRape date raped]] her. And to make it even worse, he gets completely naked for the sake of his little joke at her expense, which is pretty much indecent exposure.

** Fitz Kreiner. He was peer pressured into smoking to prove he's not some kind of rule-abiding Nazi (he's now addicted to nicotine), and worried about "getting his head kicked in" ''when he was three''. [[http://kseda.livejournal.com/425309.html There's a poem about it.]] It's almost like every EDA he's in is required to add another reason (or five) to why Fitz should be a horrible, cynical, broken person. The fact he's not is ''absolutely astonishing''.

** The Doctor has a sometimes-tempestuous, sometimes-adorable relationship in ''Recap/EighthDoctorAdventuresTheYearOfIntelligentTigers The Year of Intelligent Tigers]]'' with composer Karl Sadeghi. Karl spends most of the book being very obliquely in love with him, waxing poetic about the Doctor ''constantly''[[note]] Karl watched the Doctor doze. He had flopped back on to the soft grass, his golden-brown hair spreading around his face. The bright sunshine highlighted the exotic whiteness of his skin.[[/note]] [[note]] The numen had left the Doctor: he was no longer a god of thunder, but only a beautiful man lying in the grass.[[/note]]

** The Doctor has a sometimes-tempestuous, sometimes-adorable relationship in ''The Year of Intelligent Tigers'' with composer Karl Sadeghi. Karl spends most of the book being very obliquely in love with him, waxing poetic about the Doctor ''constantly''[[note]] Karl watched the Doctor doze. He had flopped back on to the soft grass, his golden-brown hair spreading around his face. The bright sunshine highlighted the exotic whiteness of his skin.[[/note]] [[note]] The numen had left the Doctor: he was no longer a god of thunder, but only a beautiful man lying in the grass.[[/note]]

* ItGetsBetter: It's generally recommended to skip the first book entirely, mainly because it's pure ContinuityPorn with an ExcusePlot.

* UnfortunateImplications: When Fitz first meets Sam, she winds up sleeping off a concussion. Unsurprisingly, she's a little out of it when she wakes up, and Fitz spends a while pretending they'd slept together, and acting hurt that she doesn't remember. It's PlayedForLaughs, but he's essentially trying to convince Sam he'd [[DateRape date raped]] her. And to make it even worse, he gets completely naked for the sake of his little joke at her expense, which is pretty much indecent exposure.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E3TheUnquietDead A rift in space and time opens]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E11BoomTown in a major city, inciting a ton of]] [[Series/{{Torchwood}} general weirdness into said city]] happened in ''Unnatural History''.
*** This book also has [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E12TheSoundOfDrums paradox machines.]]

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E13ThePartingofTheWays The first Doctor/male Companion kiss]] was in ''Dominion''.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS1E1Rose The Doctor, newly regenerated, picked up a blonde, teenage, contemporary London girl]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS2E13Doomsday who falls for him]] named Sam.