Salvation
Steve Lyon's book Salvation was published by BBC Boks in 1999. Lyons has taken a bit of a liberty with the continuity of the series at this point; Dodo claimed in the final moments of The Massacre that a little boy had been hit by a car and she needed to get hold of the police, but here that is all thrown out the window in favour of the girl fleeing from an alien who had kept her locked up for the last day. She runs from him and sees the welcome form of a police box and decides to call for help. And we can all guess what really happens.
And then the scene switches to New York (and in my head I am hearing the Sex and the City theme). It's still 1965, the TARDIS having only made a hop across the Atlantic, and Steven is still fuming about his fight with the Doctor over his disregard for Anne Chaplet. What's more, the state of the world in 1965 with the Vietman War and homelessness and poverty has disgusted Steven further, despite the fact that he has seen worse things inflicted upon mankind by other races (note a clever mention of the Cybermen, who have not appeared in the series yet). Steven feels himself starting to want to leave the Doctor after all he has seen, and for Dodo, the adventure is just beginning. The people of New York are visitied by aliens who have come to save the world, aliens who simply claim to be the Gods. History makes no mention of this of course, and the Doctor is determined to get to the bottom of things; he suspects some kind of deception and, of course, he is right, and must foil another invasion of Earth.
I always like it when Doctor Who goes somewhere else besides a corner of England. I've got some hopes that the new series might have some far-out foreign filming location in its future, given that the BBC have already ordered a special episode for around Christmas this year; what more special than to go afar? The show doesn't make its first real location journey until 1979, but so far the TARDIS has been to China (Marco Polo, The Eleventh Tiger) Mexico (The Aztecs) France (The Reign of Terror, The Massacre) America (The Chase) Italy (The Romans) and somewhere in the mideast (The Crusades). I've never been to New York City but I get a proper sense of what it might be like in Salvation, as if Lyons spent enough time there to get a feel for the place rather than look at some pictures and try to describe it in text.
A good book. A fun story. The Doctor at his best, as always.
NEXT EPISODE : THE ARK
And then the scene switches to New York (and in my head I am hearing the Sex and the City theme). It's still 1965, the TARDIS having only made a hop across the Atlantic, and Steven is still fuming about his fight with the Doctor over his disregard for Anne Chaplet. What's more, the state of the world in 1965 with the Vietman War and homelessness and poverty has disgusted Steven further, despite the fact that he has seen worse things inflicted upon mankind by other races (note a clever mention of the Cybermen, who have not appeared in the series yet). Steven feels himself starting to want to leave the Doctor after all he has seen, and for Dodo, the adventure is just beginning. The people of New York are visitied by aliens who have come to save the world, aliens who simply claim to be the Gods. History makes no mention of this of course, and the Doctor is determined to get to the bottom of things; he suspects some kind of deception and, of course, he is right, and must foil another invasion of Earth.
I always like it when Doctor Who goes somewhere else besides a corner of England. I've got some hopes that the new series might have some far-out foreign filming location in its future, given that the BBC have already ordered a special episode for around Christmas this year; what more special than to go afar? The show doesn't make its first real location journey until 1979, but so far the TARDIS has been to China (Marco Polo, The Eleventh Tiger) Mexico (The Aztecs) France (The Reign of Terror, The Massacre) America (The Chase) Italy (The Romans) and somewhere in the mideast (The Crusades). I've never been to New York City but I get a proper sense of what it might be like in Salvation, as if Lyons spent enough time there to get a feel for the place rather than look at some pictures and try to describe it in text.
A good book. A fun story. The Doctor at his best, as always.
NEXT EPISODE : THE ARK
Labels: Dodo Chaplet, Steven Taylor, The 1st Doctor
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