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* 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 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. | * 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 | * 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. 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 a lash-like tail that can send people hurtling across the room with its kinetic power alone. 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 a lash-like tail that can send people hurtling across the room with its kinetic power alone. To the Doctor's knowledge, the creature is "almost invincible". | ||
* The novelisation clarifies that [[Tegan]]'s foot is undamaged while trapped under the toppled airlock door "by a kind of freak accident". | * The novelisation clarifies that [[Tegan]]'s foot is undamaged while trapped under the toppled airlock door "by a kind of freak accident". | ||
* When Nilson takes Tegan hostage, the Doctor follows them to the [[ultraviolet converter]] carrying the dead Karina's blaster for protection. He's forced to discard it when Nilson calls his bluff and threatens Tegan with his own weapon. | * When Nilson takes Tegan hostage, the Doctor follows them to the [[ultraviolet converter]] carrying the dead [[Karina (Warriors of the Deep)|Karina]]'s blaster for protection. He's forced to discard it when Nilson calls his bluff and threatens Tegan with his own weapon. | ||
* [[Icthar]]'s belief to having twice offered the hand of friendship (possibly explained in the [[Virgin Missing Adventures]] novel ''[[The Scales of Injustice]]'') is rewritten as the Doctor having twice tried in vain to make peace. | * [[Icthar]]'s belief to having twice offered the hand of friendship (possibly explained in the [[Virgin Missing Adventures]] novel ''[[The Scales of Injustice]]'') is rewritten as the Doctor having twice tried in vain to make peace. | ||
* Terrance Dicks retains an attempted rescue of the Doctor by [[Turlough]] and [[Preston (Warriors of the Deep)|Preston]], cut from the televised version to emphasise Turlough's cowardice and selfishness. | * Terrance Dicks retains an attempted rescue of the Doctor by [[Turlough]] and [[Preston (Warriors of the Deep)|Preston]], cut from the televised version to emphasise Turlough's cowardice and selfishness. | ||
