Day 184: The Ice Warriors FIVE

For some reason, the Ice Warriors have been deemed important enough for me to feel the need to devote today's episode to talk about how they're used in this story. This is because they're going to return a couple more times over the course of the series, including in the post 2005 era as well, and so they have an associated aura of 'classic monster' with them that begs for them to be discussed. But I haven't talked about them so far because they aren't really that interesting. The design is nice, being a simple alien monster design that is able to stick in the minds of young children, and their voice, much like the Daleks before them, is instantly imitable, meaning that each little youngster in the playground can be a Martian, asssssss long assssssss they hisssssss the letter ssssssssssss. Their motivation, however, is weak. They're your basic invading alien force, with not much else to say about them. They were most likely brought back because the writer, Brian Hayles, enjoyed having an alien race of his own, and the Ice Warriors will be fleshed out wonderfully in coming stories, it just so happens that, at the moment, they're just another monster, with nothing to elevate them beyond a ssssssssssssupremely cool sssssssssspeech pattern.