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because of this episode, last night I watched The Ice Warriors serial from the 2nd Doctor (the parts that are available anyway) and the novellization (you can tell that I had way too much free time) and now, the whole episode just feels to me like a HUGE tribute to that serial, from the Ice Warrior being found in a block of ice and being resucitated by a scientist hungry for recognition, to his dialog with Clara (which is very similar to the one Varga had with Victoria on this one) to the Doctor's relationship wiith the Captain being similar to the one of the Doctor with Leader Clent on TIW, just to name a few.
I have seen some people ranting on different sites on how this episode is a supposed "ripoff" of Dalek (which I don't see at all except for the humanized villain) and after seeing the original serial and reading the novellization, if anything, then Dalek was a ripoff from this.
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