Perhaps I've been too harsh about this one, I would have liked it as a kid, with its clash of futuristic and mediaeval, and Eckersley's (pre-unmasking) engaging characterisation as a blase technocrat.
It is still a very lazy effort from Terrance, one of the 'he said/she said' script conversion jobs he's accused of doing. Usually that isn't a fair accusation, but with this book, it is. He follows every scene change in a way that Pip'n'Jane would be proud of - in his earlier work he thinks nothing of eliminating a cut/cut back if it makes the story flow better on the page.
Principal differences that I noticed this time: Eckerley keeps addressing Sarah as 'love' in a way that's both very annoying and very odd. Do any other future people in DW talk that way?
Sarah tells Thalira there's nothing 'only' about being female, not about being a girl. And she doesn't do the 'nothing "only" about being a miner' at the end. The cheeky way Thalira says 'Gebek -' at the end, when she's about to ennoble him, is missing.
Alpha Centauri doesn't fall over when Eckersley thumps him with the gun. Sskel shows a 'surprising turn of speed' when fleeing the Aggedor projection (not so much a difference as an attempt to explain something which didn't seem quite right on screen).
There's a (literally) parenthetic explanation that Azaxyr's spaceship crew quietly left orbit once they realised he was dead, which is why Alpha Centauri was able to reopen communications.
Thalira also doesn't take part in the conversation with Eckersley about his motivation. Which is a shame, because on screen I liked the suggestion of professional contempt when she says 'Power?' Incidentally, Ecks only says that 'perhaps' the Ice Warriors will make him ruler of Earth.
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