Warriors of the Deep (novelisation) (edit)
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* The world of 2084 is explored in greater detail. [[Terrance Dicks]] makes no implication regarding the two sides in the human conflict, clearly referring to them as East Bloc and West Bloc. The West Bloc's use of the human brain in their synch-op systems provided a tactical edge that the East lacked. It also proved to be their weakest link due to the strict requirements of the position. The Sea Bases were constructed to offset the new vulnerabilities of space-based warfare in the latter half of the [[21st century]]. | * The world of 2084 is explored in greater detail. [[Terrance Dicks]] makes no implication regarding the two sides in the human conflict, clearly referring to them as East Bloc and West Bloc. The West Bloc's use of the human brain in their synch-op systems provided a tactical edge that the East lacked. It also proved to be their weakest link due to the strict requirements of the position. The Sea Bases were constructed to offset the new vulnerabilities of space-based warfare in the latter half of the [[21st century]]. | ||
* Icthar is identified multiple times, by the Doctor and the author, as the unnamed [[Silurian]] scientist previously encountered by the [[Third Doctor]] in the televised ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]''. Poised between the [[Okdel L'da|Old Silurian]] initially leading the shelter and the [[Morka|Young Silurian]] who usurped him. | * Icthar is identified multiple times, by the Doctor and the author, as the unnamed [[Silurian]] scientist previously encountered by the [[Third Doctor]] in the televised ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]''. Poised between the [[Okdel L'da|Old Silurian]] initially leading the shelter and the [[Morka|Young Silurian]] who usurped him. | ||
* While the televised version | * While the televised version implies the [[Sea Devil]]s are hibernating in a bunker beneath the ocean floor, the novelisation describes them as sleeping in the lower depths of the [[Silurian]] craft itself. Their length of inactivity is stretched from hundreds of years to thousands. | ||
* Terrance Dicks paints Doctor [[Solow]] in a sympathetic light, persuaded by [[Nilson]] that the East Bloc had the solution to banish suffering and injustice from the world. She was grieving the failure of her career, and deaths of her parents and husband when Nilson recruited her to as an ideological convert. Conversely, Nilson is described as "a complete fanatic", if anything more ruthless than the people he serves. | * Terrance Dicks paints Doctor [[Solow]] in a sympathetic light, persuaded by [[Nilson]] that the East Bloc had the solution to banish suffering and injustice from the world. She was grieving the failure of her career, and deaths of her parents and husband when Nilson recruited her to as an ideological convert. Conversely, Nilson is described as "a complete fanatic", if anything more ruthless than the people he serves. | ||
* The [[Myrka]] is described as a kind of "sea dragon", specially bred and adapted by the Silurians with cybernetic technology. It electrocutes its victims as with the televised story, but attacks with its lash-like tail that can send people hurtling across the room with its kinetic power. To the Doctor's knowledge, the creature is "almost invincible". | * The [[Myrka]] is described as a kind of "sea dragon", specially bred and adapted by the Silurians with cybernetic technology. It electrocutes its victims as with the televised story, but attacks with its lash-like tail that can send people hurtling across the room with its kinetic power. To the Doctor's knowledge, the creature is "almost invincible". | ||