New Companion Rumour
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You could say the same about Dench though?
And Judi Dench won an Oscar for 8 minutes of screen time.
The early SPECTRE script that leaked clarified that Moneypenny wasn't M's personal assistant - but actually the Head Data Analyst for MI6, equivalent to Robinson in the Brosnan movies in a sense (Chief of Operations in contrast to Tanner's 'Chief of Staff').
The latter isn't quite true either from my understanding - the very early draft of TND (with villain Elliott Harmsway and girls Paris Harmsway and Sydney Wrench) references Natalya marrying a hockey player but it doesn't seem like they ever intended Natalya to be Paris.
Fair point. We never see her again in "Goldeneye" after the briefing though
After that she had quite a few scene in future movies.
TND- In the "situation room"
TWINE- Kidnapped
Die Another Day- Different settings
Casino Royale- Office and Bahamas to name a few
QOS- Different locations
Skyfall- She was practically a Bond girl
Dredging this up...
Now we really are getting Rakhee Thakrar as a companion, in Big Finish's Time War series with the eighth Doctor. The Time War is their prequel to the War Doctor audios, so I wonder if we might see Cardinal Ollistra in some capacity at some point.
Now we really are getting Rakhee Thakrar as a companion, in Big Finish's Time War series with the eighth Doctor. The Time War is their prequel to the War Doctor audios, so I wonder if we might see Cardinal Ollistra in some capacity at some point.
Those two had an extremely expanded role in the City of Death novelization.
There was a City of Death novelization? Was it just 12 pages of plot and 100+ pages of trying to find new ways to describe The Doctor and Romana pointlessly wandering around Paris? Or was it just a 12-13 page book that repeated the line "Then, The Doctor and Romana walked around Paris a bit more" between every few paragraphs 
There might have been a novel for every episode. I know I had a couple dozen of them back in the 80's
I think it was the Five Doctors novel when #5 said he had cosmic angst and Tegan replied "cosmic howmuch?"
For years I swore it was in the episode, then I got the DVD a few years ago.
I think it was the Five Doctors novel when #5 said he had cosmic angst and Tegan replied "cosmic howmuch?"
For years I swore it was in the episode, then I got the DVD a few years ago.
There was a City of Death novelization? Was it just 12 pages of plot and 100+ pages of trying to find new ways to describe The Doctor and Romana pointlessly wandering around Paris? Or was it just a 12-13 page book that repeated the line "Then, The Doctor and Romana walked around Paris a bit more" between every few paragraphs
No, it's a hefty hardcover novel by James Goss. Came out... two years ago? I think it was two years ago.
At this point, everything from the original run is novelized except for Eric Saward's two Dalek stories.
What I don't remember, were there major differences in the novels vs the episodes?
Like a Star Trek movie vs it's corresponding novel, with all the unfilmed dialogue and whatnot.
I have a box of about 50 novels (along with many hardcover books and DWM's from the 80's. Wonder how much they are worth these days.
Actually, a problem I had with the City of Death novelization is that the author tried too hard to imitate the Douglas Adams style of prose which in the end proves one thing: you shouldn't try to write like Douglas Adams unless you are Douglas Adams. And even he couldn't always pull it off.There was a City of Death novelization? Was it just 12 pages of plot and 100+ pages of trying to find new ways to describe The Doctor and Romana pointlessly wandering around Paris? Or was it just a 12-13 page book that repeated the line "Then, The Doctor and Romana walked around Paris a bit more" between every few paragraphs
It depended on the writer, mainly. I think those novelisations written by Terrence Dicks were largely straight from the script. Sometimes the novelisation was based on a script that was changed. The later releases were largely faithful to the episodes.
Sometimes the book is a significant departure. The novelisation of The Daleks, one of the first three released in the 70s, was written in the first person from the POV of Ian, and was written as the first meeting with the Doctor.
I was surprised when The Cave Monsters (novelization of The Silurians) embellished on the security officer's background by detailing an incident involving the IRA that got messy and resulted in the end of his military career. That is stuff the show itself would not have touched back then, and I'd be surprised if they addressed that sort of thing today.
"The Daleks" pretends "An Unearthly Child" never existed. (The opening of the book is homaged at the start of "An Adventure in Space & Time")
"Colony in Space" is renamed "The Doomsday Weapon" and acts as if it's Jo's first meeting with the Doctor.
"Frontier in Space" published as "The Space War" doesn't lead into "Planet of the Daleks" even though the two books were released only a month apart.
John Peel's* various Dalek story books have a lot of retroactive continuity references added.
Malcolm Hulke and Ian Marter's books are much more adult than most of the rest. (Until the last few years when pretty much all the books went more in-depth than the original stories; "Remembrance of the Daleks" being the ultimate expression of this.)
Donald Cotton's turned his three historicals into full-on comedies.
*Not that one.
...yes, it is the one who wrote a bunch of Trek novels in the 90s.
