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* [[Terrance Dicks]] in his novelisation makes no implication regarding the two sides in the human conflict, clearly referring to them as "East Block" and "West Block". | * [[Terrance Dicks]] in his novelisation makes no implication regarding the two sides in the human conflict, clearly referring to them as "East Block" and "West Block". | ||
* [[Terrance Dicks]] explains that [[Tegan]]'s foot is undamaged when trapped under the heavy door "by a kind of freak accident". | * [[Terrance Dicks]] explains that [[Tegan]]'s foot is undamaged when trapped under the heavy door "by a kind of freak accident". | ||
* [[Terrance Dicks]] paints | * [[Terrance Dicks]] paints [[Solow | Doctor Solow]] as a sympathetic character, persuaded by [[Nilson]] that the "East Block" had the solution to banish suffering and injustice from the world. | ||
* [[Icthar]]'s reference to twice having offered the hand of friendship does not fit with shown continuity (possibly explained in the [[Virgin Missing Adventures]] novel ''[[The Scales of Injustice]]'' by [[Gary Russell]]), and is rewritten by [[Terrance Dicks]] as the Doctor having twice tried in vain to make peace. | * [[Icthar]]'s reference to twice having offered the hand of friendship does not fit with shown continuity (possibly explained in the [[Virgin Missing Adventures]] novel ''[[The Scales of Injustice]]'' by [[Gary Russell]]), and is rewritten by [[Terrance Dicks]] as the Doctor having twice tried in vain to make peace. | ||
* [[Icthar]] is clearly identified as the unnamed [[Silurian]] previously encountered by the Third Doctor in the televised ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]''. | * [[Icthar]] is clearly identified as the unnamed [[Silurian]] previously encountered by the Third Doctor in the televised ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]''. | ||
