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As Director, I pretty much took the line that they've both seen so much in their time, that it really takes a lot to phase them.
Well that's a legitimate choice. Personally I believe that the characters have to get alarmed if the listener is going to be worried. I don't mean panicking but responding with obvious emotion. In realistic terms the Doctor should be incredibly blasé about these situations because he's seen so many of them but I think that harms the drama. In fact I asked for a script to be rewritten mainly on those grounds. I wasn't keen on the Doctor's attitude in BF's "Stones of Venice" where he kept saying things like "Here I am, locked up by yet another mad cult." For me the Doctor is always hopeful and treats each situation as if its new. He's always being surprised and indeed disappointed. Troughton's Doctor is one of my favourites and I like the way he seems to be scared by the monsters he meets, even if sometimes it's an act.
One of the roles of the companion is to be awed and scared even more than the Doctor. Which is where I think we may a mistake with the Doctorish character of Raman, although I tried to compensate by making him sound irritable alot of the time. Jenny will react in a much more human way, although she won't be a 'screamer' per se.
Gaz
