daniel_saunders commented on my review of The Crusade, that he'd not managed to get hold of a copy of the novelisation. I'm not actually sure that any of the illustrations in the novelisation are from telesnaps, though some are closer to the televised episode than others. Under the cut are three from scenes that definitely didn't take place in the actual show.
are, as I have said elsewhere, pretty close analogues of the pictures in the Dragon edition.
It's still all interesting. Despite its dubious flirtations with sadism, I think the novelisation is better than the televised story. It's interesting that the illustration were original in both editions though - do we know if the illustrations in the Web Planet/Zarbi novelisation are original or copied from tele snaps?
I don't have Doctor Who and the Zarbi with me, but I think they are a combination of original drawings and those influenced by production photos and perhaps also telesnaps. That the book's illustrator, John Wood, has the same name as the serial's designer, suggests that he had a unique advantage, though I've not seen it confirmed that they are the same person.
ETA: Having seen some of the illustrations on Google images, they are inspired by rather than copies of the production; like Henry Fox, Wood has at least access to images of the characters as they appeared on screen.
Barbara looks like she's swearing a really pungent swear at him.
I suppose illustrators often take liberties with characters and scenes, but somehow it seems odder when the original source is visual rather than written.
These scenes absolutely appear in the book, so I'm not sure its the illystrator taking liberties exactly. But its certainly interesting that for a source where images were available for every couple of minutes of viewing time, the artist has chosen to depict the scenes that don't appear - and has chosen his/her own version of scenes that do appear (see above comment to parrot_knight).
Until last week, it had never occurred to me that these images weren't in the original episode.
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Date: 2015-10-04 02:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-10-04 07:50 pm (UTC)are, as I have said elsewhere, pretty close analogues of the pictures in the Dragon edition.
It's still all interesting. Despite its dubious flirtations with sadism, I think the novelisation is better than the televised story. It's interesting that the illustration were original in both editions though - do we know if the illustrations in the Web Planet/Zarbi novelisation are original or copied from tele snaps?
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Date: 2015-10-04 08:03 pm (UTC)ETA: Having seen some of the illustrations on Google images, they are inspired by rather than copies of the production; like Henry Fox, Wood has at least access to images of the characters as they appeared on screen.
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Date: 2015-10-04 03:07 pm (UTC)I suppose illustrators often take liberties with characters and scenes, but somehow it seems odder when the original source is visual rather than written.
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Date: 2015-10-04 07:53 pm (UTC)Until last week, it had never occurred to me that these images weren't in the original episode.