HOLY CRAP THAT'S WILLIAM RUSSEL AND I THINK HE'S SPEAKING IN-CHARACTER AS OLD!IAN. Yes, those bits are in the Lost in Time set, as that was not filmed for a fan-made recon like the old!Marco Polo clips but for the official VHS release of the surviving episodes - they made the same thing when they released The Invasion on VHS, with Nicholas Courtney filling in for the two yet-to-be-animated missing episodes with similar narration.
Not Richard III, but Richard I (but you can call him Scaroth since that's the same actor :P). The one you mean was the one with the hump and the limp - you'll find him in the Big Finish audio The Kingmaker.
WHEN DID THEY START PASSING VICKI OFF AS A PAGEBOY? When One stole the clothes from the market stall, if I remember correctly. That said, I think "Victor" looked more convincing than "Paul" in The Smugglers - but that's mostly because Vicki didn't wear the massive amounts of eyeliner and false lashes Polly did (well, and Polly's chest is even more noticeable than Vicki's).
If Jean Marsh plays Sara Kingdom ANYTHING like the way she plays Joanna, I think I'm going to be quite fond of her indeed. I think my icon speaks for itself.
Yikes. I can see why this story wasn't sold to Arab countries. Yes, it would be very hard for it to be accepted in those. Interestingly, this story is quite groundbreaking in terms of the portrayal of the historical characters involved. At the time it would be unthinkable to portray Richard Lionheart as anything but a hero, and Saladin as anything but a clichéd villain - and here, we see Richard acting like a spoiled brat at times, while Saladin is fair and understanding (and would have kept Barbara safe if she hadn't been kidnapped).
The novelization is intriguing for the bits that deviate from the original. There's a lot more violence - including Barbara being whipped by El Akir), and some Ian/Barbara moments.
Oh wow. Shows you just how hard I fail at history. I'll have to go back and fix that.
"Paul"... *snicker*
Barbara getting whipped? o__O Yikes. And Ian/Barbara is always approved of. I'm trying to remember when it was that I learned that they weren't technically canon...
Ben's the one who came up with the name "Paul". It tickles me to see so many people believing that Polly was a boy since she's the least convincing boy I've ever seen.
Yes, the whipping took me by surprise. And a character who survives in the serial gets brutally murdered in the novelization, if I recall it correctly.
Luigi Ferrigo, the merchant who helps El Akir kidnap Barbara. He is killed by Saladin's guards when he tries to escape, and his death is depicted in a way that feels too graphic for the targeted audience of the time.
I was reading more of Cold Fusion last night and there's a scene where Roz Forrester cuts a guy's head off. It's told from the guy's perspective even after he gets his head cut off, so he wonders why the body next to him is wearing his tunic and speculates on why he can still think for the few seconds after his brain's been severed from his spinal cord.
So yeah. Seems that upping the rating is a prevailing them in Doctor Who novels.
Well, the EDAs, NAs and MAs do have a lot of nasty moments, but The Cruzaders (I didn't make a mistake, that's really how the novelization is called) was one of the earliest ones, written back in the '60s when you'd expect it to be a children's show, which makes Ferrigo's gurgling as the sword pierces his neck a bit odder in context. *shrugs* (And if we're talking about disconcerting moments, a good example is Paul Cornell's The Shadows of Avalon, the only EDA that has been removed from my personal canon in spite of its importance in the overall arc, and which features a warrior queen who wears a severed penis as a necklace...)
All the novelizations written in the '60s have completely different titles. The Daleks became Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (that one is an odd beast, though, as it's definitely AU rather than an adaptation); The Web Planet became Doctor Who and the Zarbi; and this one became Doctor Who and the Crusaders.
She is rather hardcore, yes. And she has a crush on the Brig, which also makes her a woman of taste. But alas, it's what Cornell did to the Brig in this one (plus my hatred of Romana III) that make me dislike the book.
Yes, those bits are in the Lost in Time set, as that was not filmed for a fan-made recon like the old!Marco Polo clips but for the official VHS release of the surviving episodes - they made the same thing when they released The Invasion on VHS, with Nicholas Courtney filling in for the two yet-to-be-animated missing episodes with similar narration.
Not Richard III, but Richard I (but you can call him Scaroth since that's the same actor :P). The one you mean was the one with the hump and the limp - you'll find him in the Big Finish audio The Kingmaker.
WHEN DID THEY START PASSING VICKI OFF AS A PAGEBOY?
When One stole the clothes from the market stall, if I remember correctly. That said, I think "Victor" looked more convincing than "Paul" in The Smugglers - but that's mostly because Vicki didn't wear the massive amounts of eyeliner and false lashes Polly did (well, and Polly's chest is even more noticeable than Vicki's).
If Jean Marsh plays Sara Kingdom ANYTHING like the way she plays Joanna, I think I'm going to be quite fond of her indeed.
I think my icon speaks for itself.
Yikes. I can see why this story wasn't sold to Arab countries.
Yes, it would be very hard for it to be accepted in those. Interestingly, this story is quite groundbreaking in terms of the portrayal of the historical characters involved. At the time it would be unthinkable to portray Richard Lionheart as anything but a hero, and Saladin as anything but a clichéd villain - and here, we see Richard acting like a spoiled brat at times, while Saladin is fair and understanding (and would have kept Barbara safe if she hadn't been kidnapped).
The novelization is intriguing for the bits that deviate from the original. There's a lot more violence - including Barbara being whipped by El Akir), and some Ian/Barbara moments.
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"Paul"... *snicker*
Barbara getting whipped? o__O Yikes. And Ian/Barbara is always approved of. I'm trying to remember when it was that I learned that they weren't technically canon...
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Yes, the whipping took me by surprise. And a character who survives in the serial gets brutally murdered in the novelization, if I recall it correctly.
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So yeah. Seems that upping the rating is a prevailing them in Doctor Who novels.
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(And if we're talking about disconcerting moments, a good example is Paul Cornell's The Shadows of Avalon, the only EDA that has been removed from my personal canon in spite of its importance in the overall arc, and which features a warrior queen who wears a severed penis as a necklace...)
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...wait, severed penis? o___O This woman sounds pretty damn hardcore.
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She is rather hardcore, yes. And she has a crush on the Brig, which also makes her a woman of taste. But alas, it's what Cornell did to the Brig in this one (plus my hatred of Romana III) that make me dislike the book.
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