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* A reference to Ace having lost her virginity was removed from the script, as it was felt this was unsuitable for a programme aimed at a family audience. (Ace's character outline specified that [[Sabalom Glitz]] had done the honours.) | * A reference to Ace having lost her virginity was removed from the script, as it was felt this was unsuitable for a programme aimed at a family audience. (Ace's character outline specified that [[Sabalom Glitz]] had done the honours.) | ||
* This is the first televised story to be set during World War II. It was set in Coventry during the Blitz to avoid all the [[London]] cliches. | * This is the first televised story to be set during World War II. It was set in Coventry during the Blitz to avoid all the [[London]] cliches. | ||
* This is the first televised story to link together events and aspects from previous ones to a significant extent: Fenric is revealed to have caused the [[time storm]]s that sent Ace to [[Iceworld]] in ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'' and [[Lady Peinforte]] to 1988 England in ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]]'', and is implied to have manipulated up to the entirety of the Seventh Doctor's life up to that point as part of his revenge plot. Though ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'' previously provided an explanation for the [[CVE]] that took the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Romana II]] to [[E-Space]] in ''[[Full Circle (TV story)|Full Circle]]'', ''The Curse of Fenric'' provided a single plot point that tied together two other stories (and presumably the entirety) of the Seventh Doctor's tenure. The concept of linking stories together in this manner would reappear in [[Series 4 (Doctor Who)|Series 4]], approximately 20 years later, and would become a fundamental aspect of the series when [[Steven Moffat]] became the show's head writer and executive producer in 2010. | * This is the first televised story to link together events and aspects from previous ones to a significant extent: Fenric is revealed to have caused the [[time storm]]s that sent Ace to [[Iceworld]] in ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'' and [[Lady Peinforte]] to 1988 England in ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]]'', and is implied to have manipulated up to the entirety of the Seventh Doctor's life up to that point as part of his revenge plot. Though ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'' previously provided an explanation for the [[CVE]] that took the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Romana II]] to [[E-Space]] in ''[[Full Circle (TV story)|Full Circle]]'', ''The Curse of Fenric'' provided a single plot point that tied together two other stories (and presumably the entirety) of the Seventh Doctor's tenure. The concept of linking stories together in this manner would reappear in [[Series 4 (Doctor Who 2005)|Series 4]], approximately 20 years later, and would become a fundamental aspect of the series when [[Steven Moffat]] became the show's head writer and executive producer in 2010. | ||
* [[Andrew Cartmel]] didn't think [[Nicholas Mallett]] handled the action scenes well and felt the Ancient Haemovore costume was risible. | * [[Andrew Cartmel]] didn't think [[Nicholas Mallett]] handled the action scenes well and felt the Ancient Haemovore costume was risible. | ||
* [[Ian Briggs]] drew on Norse Mythology, inspired by a vacation to Sweden. In particular, he drew upon the legend of the vast wolf-monster Fenrir or Fenrisúlfr, who was foretold to cause the death of the chief god Odin and so was mystically bound to a great stone until Ragnarok — the “twilight of the gods”. | * [[Ian Briggs]] drew on Norse Mythology, inspired by a vacation to Sweden. In particular, he drew upon the legend of the vast wolf-monster Fenrir or Fenrisúlfr, who was foretold to cause the death of the chief god Odin and so was mystically bound to a great stone until Ragnarok — the “twilight of the gods”. | ||
