Talk:The Monster of Peladon

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BetacommandBot (talk) 19:10, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Screaming guy being mauled by monster
Just like to point out that it's a cliche rather than a direct link between Star Wars and Doctor Who. I mean, older movies have used this scenario -- e.g. two man face a tiger and one screams and runs away only to be mauled by said tiger. It's a tenuous link, so unless we have someone like Lucas saying that he based the scene on the scene from this show, then we should leave it out. (BTW, tenuous means "thin" and not "broken".) DonQuixote (talk) 20:31, 14 August 2008 (UTC) Actually if you listen to the Audio Commentaries on the DVDs, the participants usually always make a joke of other films and series copying Doctor Who, but they always say it in good humor. (Star Wars, Aliens and the new Star Trek are the usual victims of the jokes) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.17.155.245 (talk) 19:25, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

The Doctor and Darth
Watching this one for the first time recently via Retro TV, I was so struck by the essential resemblance of the wheezing, helmet-headed commander of the Ice Warriors to Darth Vader that I eagerly watched for the serial's copyright date to tell me which character could have "inspired" which. Maybe just coincidence, of course, but it is hard to imagine that none of the folks working on the development of Star Wars in the mid-1970s was watching when The Monster of Peladon first aired in 1974. Yet I can find no mention of this screamingly obvious possible "inspiration" in any of the Peladon serial articles or in the Ice Warrior article. Surely, at least one citable source must have commented on it during the past 40 years, allowing it to be usefully addressed here in Wikipedia? 66.81.244.48 (talk) 22:08, 23 September 2017 (UTC)