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*The Cyber Leader says the sentence "Your technology is primitive next to ours, mistakes will not be made." in a distinctly sing-song type of voice. | *The Cyber Leader says the sentence "Your technology is primitive next to ours, mistakes will not be made." in a distinctly sing-song type of voice. | ||
::Not that "distinctly". Didn't sound that way to me. | |||
*Why does the guy reading the scanner pick up only the Doctor as an alien? Nyssa is a Trakenite, is she not? | *Why does the guy reading the scanner pick up only the Doctor as an alien? Nyssa is a Trakenite, is she not? | ||
::Maybe Trakenites are so similar to humans that they can't be distinguished by the scanner's technology, but Gallifreyans are different enough that they can. After all, she doesn't have two hearts, a different internal temperature, or various other reasonably easy-to-detect differences that he does. | ::Maybe Trakenites are so similar to humans that they can't be distinguished by the scanner's technology, but Gallifreyans are different enough that they can. After all, she doesn't have two hearts, a different internal temperature, or various other reasonably easy-to-detect differences that he does. | ||
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::More seriously, in-universe they obviously weren't actually using clips of old episodes, that's just how it was represented on screen. Kind of like the fact that in-universe they were actually Cybermen rather than human actors in costumes. | ::More seriously, in-universe they obviously weren't actually using clips of old episodes, that's just how it was represented on screen. Kind of like the fact that in-universe they were actually Cybermen rather than human actors in costumes. | ||
::To expound upon the previous point, they were intended to be either recordings or other displays from various encounters the Cybermen had with the Doctor. For the Second Doctor clip, they're simply showing the incarnation who confined them to their ice tombs, not saying this was the moment that it happened. | |||
*Surely the Doctor could have used the TARDIS to materialise on the frieghter to save Adric? | *Surely the Doctor could have used the TARDIS to materialise on the frieghter to save Adric? | ||
::As he says, though, the console is damaged | ::As he says, though, the console is damaged at the key moment. | ||
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