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== Deviations from televised story == | == Deviations from televised story == | ||
* Saward adds a detailed description of how [[regeneration]] works, | * Saward adds a detailed description of how [[regeneration]] works, including original details such as the importance of [[lindos]]. | ||
* [[Azmael]]'s departure from Gallifrey is said to have attracted the attention of the High Council who considered him too knowledgeable to be allowed free passage in the wider cosmos. To that end, they dispatch an assassination squad of [[Seedle Warrior|Seedle warriors]] to execute him. The warriors track him down to Vitrol Minor where he had been hiding and massacred the population in search of the missing Time Lord. However, by the time that they had realised his absence, he'd escaped and returned to Gallifrey. Enraged and grief-stricken, he attempted to get the President and the High Council indicted, but both escaped charge. Azmael is forced to gun down the politicians, but disgusted by the act, declares himself an outcast and condemns himself to exile beyond Gallifrey. There is no mention of this in the televised story. He expresses regrets about leaving Gallifrey and becoming a renegade. In the televised story, his only regret is not being able to stay on [[Jaconda]]. | * [[Azmael]]'s departure from Gallifrey is said to have attracted the attention of the High Council who considered him too knowledgeable to be allowed free passage in the wider cosmos. To that end, they dispatch an assassination squad of [[Seedle Warrior|Seedle warriors]] to execute him. The warriors track him down to Vitrol Minor where he had been hiding and massacred the population in search of the missing Time Lord. However, by the time that they had realised his absence, he'd escaped and returned to Gallifrey. Enraged and grief-stricken, he attempted to get the President and the High Council indicted, but both escaped charge. Azmael is forced to gun down the politicians, but disgusted by the act, declares himself an outcast and condemns himself to exile beyond Gallifrey. There is no mention of this in the televised story. He expresses regrets about leaving Gallifrey and becoming a renegade. In the televised story, his only regret is not being able to stay on [[Jaconda]]. | ||
* The Doctor reminisces about his times with [[Jo Grant|Jo]], [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]], [[Leela]], [[Zoe Heriot|Zoe]], [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]], [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]], [[Nyssa]], [[Romana]], [[Liz Shaw|Liz]] and more prominently, [[Adric]]. The novelisation goes further and says that the memory of Adric was the most painful of all, with the boy going to his death without the Doctor being able to fully praise or even like him. | * The Doctor reminisces about his times with [[Jo Grant|Jo]], [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]], [[Leela]], [[Zoe Heriot|Zoe]], [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]], [[Vislor Turlough|Turlough]], [[Nyssa]], [[Romana]], [[Liz Shaw|Liz]] and more prominently, [[Adric]]. The novelisation goes further and says that the memory of Adric was the most painful of all, with the boy going to his death without the Doctor being able to fully praise or even like him. | ||
* The acid in the vials is referred to as [[Mosten acid]], which doesn't burn or corrode, but ages whatever is immersed in it by a unique process of dehydration. | * The acid in the vials is referred to as [[Mosten acid]], which doesn't burn or corrode, but ages whatever is immersed in it by a unique process of dehydration. | ||
* [[Archie Sylvest|Professor Sylvest]] is given the first name "Archie" and his wife named as [[Nimo Sylvest]]. There is much | * [[Archie Sylvest|Professor Sylvest]] is given the first name "Archie" and his wife named as [[Nimo Sylvest]]. There is much backstory added about how he dreams of killing the twins and has spent much time with his colleague [[Vestal Smith]] until he is threatened by her "Neanderthal" husband, [[Reginald Smith]]. | ||
* Several mentions are made of an alcoholic drink called [[Voxnic]]. | * Several mentions are made of an alcoholic drink called [[Voxnic]]. | ||
* The Doctor's cowardice on meeting the [[Jacondan]]s and attacking Azmael are omitted. Much of his initial dialogue with Azmael is given to Peri. | * The Doctor's cowardice on meeting the [[Jacondan]]s and attacking Azmael are omitted. Much of his initial dialogue with Azmael is given to Peri. | ||
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* [[Hugo Lang]] fails to realise Azmael's ship should not be capable of warp drive and needs the Doctor to tell him to use his gun to cut himself out of the slime trail. He is a less sympathetic character than on screen, dreaming of becoming a celebrity by rescuing the twins without any real personal risk, considering abandoning the Doctor and Peri on Jaconda and staying behind because he thinks Slarn will pay him highly to be his bodyguard. | * [[Hugo Lang]] fails to realise Azmael's ship should not be capable of warp drive and needs the Doctor to tell him to use his gun to cut himself out of the slime trail. He is a less sympathetic character than on screen, dreaming of becoming a celebrity by rescuing the twins without any real personal risk, considering abandoning the Doctor and Peri on Jaconda and staying behind because he thinks Slarn will pay him highly to be his bodyguard. | ||
* The kidnap of the twins is partly told from the point of view of a cat, said to be the most intelligent creature on Earth. Azmael injects the twins with a drug rather than placing discs on them. | * The kidnap of the twins is partly told from the point of view of a cat, said to be the most intelligent creature on Earth. Azmael injects the twins with a drug rather than placing discs on them. | ||
* The characters of [[Fabian (The Twin Dilemma)|Fabian]] and [[Elena]] and the sequences at police headquarters are omitted, as is the scene of Mestor executing a Jacondan [[Prisoner (The Twin Dilemma)|prisoner]]. | * The characters of [[Fabian (The Twin Dilemma)|Fabian]] and [[Elena]] and the sequences at police headquarters are omitted, as is the scene of Mestor executing a Jacondan [[Prisoner (The Twin Dilemma)|prisoner]], and the unexplained presence of a statue wearing a [[frog mask (The Twin Dilemma)|frog mask]] in Mestor's throne room. | ||
* The Doctor does not meet Mestor in person until their final confrontation, communicating with him via a hologram until that point. Peri only meets him off page. | * The Doctor does not meet Mestor in person until their final confrontation, communicating with him via a hologram until that point. Peri only meets him off page. | ||
* Hugo is taken to the laboratory by [[Noma (The Twin Dilemma)|Noma]] and his guards, removing the oddity in the televised version where he is knocked unconscious and then left to walk around freely when he recovers. | * Hugo is taken to the laboratory by [[Noma (The Twin Dilemma)|Noma]] and his guards, removing the oddity in the televised version where he is knocked unconscious and then left to walk around freely when he recovers. | ||