I've never caught up with the reconstructions, and never, ever taken to The Abominable Snowmen - not even Terrance Dicks's novelization helped the story to make an impression on me; but Fury from the Deep, from soundtrack alone, probably is the best of the season.
I like some things about The Ice Warriors - the 'adult' establishment of the base being subverted by the childlike Doctor, Jamie and Victoria, to begin with, though once the threat is established it seems to have nowhere really to go.
It's a pity that the scenes which set up Zoe most as a character are in the 'missing episodes', otherwise The Wheel in Space might be much better remembered than it is. Listening to the soundtrack I built up a better picture of Zoe as someone bred up as a component and not as a person; she probably has the best launch of any Troughton-era companion, and it's a pity that she was overshadowed by Victoria (many of whose stories were novelized by Target early on) for so long.
As for The Enemy of the World - telling that David Whitaker wanted to excise Victoria from the book version, really!
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Date: 2009-08-07 12:30 pm (UTC)I like some things about The Ice Warriors - the 'adult' establishment of the base being subverted by the childlike Doctor, Jamie and Victoria, to begin with, though once the threat is established it seems to have nowhere really to go.
It's a pity that the scenes which set up Zoe most as a character are in the 'missing episodes', otherwise The Wheel in Space might be much better remembered than it is. Listening to the soundtrack I built up a better picture of Zoe as someone bred up as a component and not as a person; she probably has the best launch of any Troughton-era companion, and it's a pity that she was overshadowed by Victoria (many of whose stories were novelized by Target early on) for so long.
As for The Enemy of the World - telling that David Whitaker wanted to excise Victoria from the book version, really!