Get Hold Of Doctor Who: Galaxy Four Devised By William Emms Shared As Booklet

this even though it was a script, I found it easy to read and to visualise and I only wish theyd recovered the film so that I could watch the episode, Interesting story for thes and has some ties to early feminism but Im unsure if its portraying female independence in a good or negative light, sitelink livejournal. com/. html

Galaxy Four was the first story from the third season, shown inodd to think of it as the Classic Who equivalent of Smith and Jones.
It's the only one from that year I haven't yet seen/heard, but I got the novel for free yesterday with the SFX Doctor Who special and read it pretty quickly.
It's actually rather good, up there with the average Missing Adventure of the Virgin series, with Emms who wrote nothing else for Doctor Who letting us inside the mind of the Doctor very convincingly, and also attempting to flesh out his rather onedimensional villain, Maaga, leader of the female Drahvin warriors.
Must try and catch up with the actual series now, though I have a suspicion this may be one of the cases where the novel is better than the story.


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Coming back to it fifteen years on, I remain favourably impressed, Emms was clearly a fan, and fills out the narrative not only with scenes that he would have liked to include in the actual show, but also with subsequent Who lore most of the references to the TARDIS crew being from Earth are removed, and there are several mentions of the Doctor having two hearts, which of course wouldnt become TV canon for another five years.
We also find out that the Rills dont share our concept of time, Its well done. The most interesting take from reading the target novelisations in serial order is instantly noticing the ones that were written in thes,
Ive notice a few stories mention The Doctor being a Timelord this hadnt been mentioned on screen at that point but this is the first time an author has used regeneration.


With a story about appearances its a great

addition to a mostly lost story, as The Doctor ponders that this body is wearing a bit thin adds extra context to the adventure.

I also liked that the book was also divided up by four chapters for the corresponding episodes,

The original idea for the target books was for fans to enjoy these stories in a preDVD age, even though the off air audio recordings exist I felt that this was the best way to consume this story.

Thats what these books should set out to achieve, Ive now got a new appreciation for this story,
Doctor Who novels can be hit or miss, . . this one is more of a miss, can't say if it's the fault of the noveliation, or of the original script, although I suspect the original script, since the scriptwriter also penned the novel.
I'm not able to compare the story against the original broadcast, I've seen very few of the Hartnells, and while he's not my least favorite Doctor that would be reserved for Colin Baker, he's somewhere nearby in my personal rankings.


The plot is not helped along by the race against time elements of a planetary explosion, and the story is lessresolved than later incarnations of the Doctor who would have resolved everyone's differences before entering the TARDIS and heading off to the next mysterious destination.
Novelisation of a seasonstory of which only the soundtrack and a few minutes of film have been recovered, A worthwhile book for someone who wants more of the first Doctor, Vicki, and Steven, as it's easy to hear their voices, Steven even gets in one of his zingers! But once you've grasped the situation, the story itself is absolutely by the numbers, The writing of the book is uneven: at times very good for example, the first few pages, at other times especially the latter two chapters repetitive, preachy, and in a few places badly connected.
The author worked hard on the first quarter of the book it's a shame he didn't have much left for the rest of it, Themes are repeated a lot, pointing up the difficulty of novelising a serial adventure show, I have to say this Target novelisation was much better than most, Normally they keep very close to what you'd see on the screen whereas this one delved into the characters head and gave everyone's thoughts and motivations, which was great.
And in the case of Stephen wanting to shoot Maaga kinda screwed up, I read this knowing very little about the story except there was a team of aliens who were all women, I liked it a lot, It followed a standard Doctor who plot with some interesting twists and turns and I really liked how much Vicki got used in thend half of the story.
Very glad I was able to pick up a copy, So so story. Audio is awful. Quite a joy to read, which is also surprising, This story no long exists on film or video, aside from one episode, from the television series, The only way to see it is as a reconstruction by means of surviving audio tracks and still pictures, And as an amazing job that was done by those who painstakingly accomplished it, the story is difficult to watch, However, this book does a terrific job of conveying the story in an enjoyable way, while also adding some flavor to the character of the Doctor and his companions.
It has changed my opinion of the story, and I am excited to revisit the reconstructed video telling, I have a feeling I will like it better this time around,WORD REVIEW:

Galaxy Four is perhaps the closest Doctor Who ever came to straightup exploration science fiction, complete with doomed planet and rampant xenophobia, William Emms, novelising his own script, delves into the characters thoughts and so adds considerable depth to the onscreen action, It's been many years since I read a Doctor Who book,years ago I read many of them and enjoyed them along with the British Doctor Who TV shows, While I liked this book, it was rather a lot of fluff, As usual the Doctor lands his TARDIS Time and Relative Dimensions in Space time machine on an alien planet, Unbeknown to him, the planet only has a few days before it disintegrates, There are two other time traveling space ships on the planet, both disabled, The beautiful women on one ship are ruthless, The other ship has ugly creatures who are kind, This is a novelization of the first adventure from the third season of Doctor Who, which was broadcast in September and October of, William Emms wrote the adaptation, which is based on the original teleplay he had written twenty years earlier, The original iteration of The Doctor is accompanied by Steven Taylor, a futuristic space explorer, and Vicki who was never given a last name, an orphaned teenager also from the future.
The book is a moral fable illustrating that things are not always as clearcut as they appear, as two forces oppose one another on a planet soon destined to destruct.
One group is comprised of beautiful young women, the Drahvins, and the other are hideous but friendly Chumbley robots, servants of the reptilian warthoglike Rills, There are some somewhat misogynistic attitudes in the book, but it's a fair adveture, typical of the time, Really enjoyed this. A thrilling read and a fantastic ending, Wow this guy doesn't like women, Makes even the good parts hard to get through because I never know when I'm gonna be faced with the Doctor complaining about 'female arrogance' or Steven remarking to himself that he likes old fashioned women he's from Earth's future.
What does 'old fashioned' even mean in that context, This is the first of the gtTarget novelisations I've read so far that I'm giving one star, It wasn't all terrible with no redeeming features, but it was far too misogynistic for me to enjoy, This included scenes which felt entirely out of character, such as this passage about Steven who comes from the future and never seemed to me to hold particularly 'oldfashioned' views:

"He was far from used to women having such an attitude.
He preferred the oldfashioned type, gentle, loving, fond of homely things, "

There's a small amount of predictable plot, but not much happens, There are beautiful evil females and ugly but good aliens and some cute robots, The ugly aliens could have been an interesting race, although even they seem to look down on the females of their species, which felt entirely unnecessary,

Overall I really can't recommend this book unless you're a completionist, It's hard to believe the novelisation was written in thes, .