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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2016 22:40:50 GMT
I imagine someone thought it was intresting challenging Alan Moore-ish commentary on The Third Doctor era. Which it really wasn't. The novel The Indestrucitable Man is similar (although at least it's fond of the era and it's characters) in which The Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria are put through a dark journey because of well.....darkness. Also, Simon Messingham must have watched a lot of Thunderbirds before writing the book because there are lot's of Gerry Anderson references. I think it was his attempt at doing a pastiche that combined UFO with Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and to be honest both of those series really are quite dark. We get to see Ed Straker's marriage disintegrate because of his commitment to SHADO, his son struck by a car and dying because his second-in-command diverted the medical supplies to SHADO personnel who needed it just as badly, Colonel White contemplating whether it'd be worse shooting himself in the head rather than being taken by the Mysterons, Paul Foster being brainwashed to kill Straker by the UFO aliens, important figures being killed by being buried alive beneath an avalanche so their bodies can be duplicated and used by the Mysterons, a murderous love triangle that must be allowed to proceed to protect the secrecy of SHADO, it's all there. Trust me it's better than Zeta Major where Nyssa has her stomach cut open and is taken over by the ante-matter creature originally seen in Planet of Evil. It's a signature Messingham trait to have the characters go through absolute hell it seems.
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Post by omega on Apr 6, 2016 22:54:49 GMT
Trust me it's better than Zeta Major where Nyssa has her stomach cut open and is taken over by the ante-matter creature originally seen in Planet of Evil. It's a signature Messingham trait to have the characters go through absolute hell it seems. Quite a few writers put the Doctor and his companion(s) through hell. Kate Orman often wrote the Seventh Doctor being tortured, Lawrence Miles went for the mindscrew approach (alternate Sam, Fitz in Interference etc), Lance Parkin with Fitz in general. It must be that prose is the best place to do it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2016 23:03:19 GMT
Trust me it's better than Zeta Major where Nyssa has her stomach cut open and is taken over by the ante-matter creature originally seen in Planet of Evil. It's a signature Messingham trait to have the characters go through absolute hell it seems. Quite a few writers put the Doctor and his companion(s) through hell. Kate Orman often wrote the Seventh Doctor being tortured, Lawrence Miles went for the mindscrew approach (alternate Sam, Fitz in Interference etc), Lance Parkin with Fitz in general. It must be that prose is the best place to do it. I can vividly remember large portions of The Left-Handed Hummingbird and Jim Mortimore's Parasite from the really detailed passages on how the characters were suffering. Even Terrance Dicks's Shakedown had decapitations, vivisections, and pools of blood. I think it might be because in prose you get to explore the characters more and as such a lot of the nastiness becomes more immediate. It's not just novels either, the Fifth Doctor gets trussed up by Ice Warriors as bait in one of the comics and slams his head against the edge of a silo as he falls before he can cry out for help. For a Steve Parkhouse comic, it's an unexpectedly nasty moment. Hmm... Although, the only Doctor Who comic story where I can remember proper gore was a Seventh Doctor story called The Grief and that's only because it was a real shock to see. This was right at the start where the DWM comics integrated with the New Adventures to form one continuity, where people screamed when they died and Ace's figurative slingshot was upgraded to a Kalashnikov.
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