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*Shouldn't the Doctor, having received a Gallifreyan education, have known about the Daleks and recognised them immediately? | |||
:: Were the Daleks a galaxy-spanning threat to the safety of the universe and the Web of Time ''before'' the Doctor began meddling with their history with the best of intentions? | |||
* It is originally stated that the [[Thal]]s have travelled for 4 years but this is later reduced to 1 year. | * It is originally stated that the [[Thal]]s have travelled for 4 years but this is later reduced to 1 year. | ||
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::Welcome to the world of '60s ''Doctor Who''. Sometimes cliffhangers were replayed as film copies made from the previous week's recording; other times it was simply re-enacted. Whether you like it or not, TV production "conventions" such as these are not errors. | ::Welcome to the world of '60s ''Doctor Who''. Sometimes cliffhangers were replayed as film copies made from the previous week's recording; other times it was simply re-enacted. Whether you like it or not, TV production "conventions" such as these are not errors. | ||
:: The reprise of the cliffhanger that begins episode 2 is from the original recording of ep 1, which was wiped when that version of the opening instalment had to be remade because of a problem with sound on the first recording. And this reprise on part 2 has no scream by Barbara: it is only heard on the remade part 1 cliffhanger. | :: The reprise of the cliffhanger that begins episode 2 is from the original recording of ep 1, which was wiped when that version of the opening instalment had to be remade because of a problem with sound on the first recording. And this reprise on part 2 has no scream by Barbara: it is only heard on the remade part 1 cliffhanger. | ||
::In short, this is a production error that the audience is expected to either fail to notice (plausible in the low-fi world of 1960s television) or politely overlook if they do, not a plot hole. | |||
* [[Ganatus]] is aware of the cultural conventions existing in [[England]] in the 1960's "We won't use one of the customs of your planet: "ladies first". | * [[Ganatus]] is aware of the cultural conventions existing in [[England]] in the 1960's "We won't use one of the customs of your planet: "ladies first". | ||
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* Despite having turned off the power, the Thals are able to leave through the electronic doors. | * Despite having turned off the power, the Thals are able to leave through the electronic doors. | ||
::The doors run on independent power cells. | ::The doors run on independent power cells. | ||
:::At one point in the final episode, the Daleks deliberately 'press down harder', increasing the pressure on the doors, in order to fight against the Thals' efforts to force through them. If more power can be used to make the doors close more forcibly, rather than them simply being physically very heavy, then with an absence of any power, the doors may be perfectly easy to pivot open just by pressing your hand to them and sliding them up. | |||
* The Dalek's plans don't seem to make sense. At first they want the Thals' anti-radiation drugs because they believe it will enable them to abandon their casings and leave the city to reclaim the planet. However, after some of them have been exposed to the drug they discover that they are now adapted to require radiation to survive. But from this they conclude that they can never leave their city! Surely the whole point is that since the rest of the planet is still irradiated they don't need the drug to leave the city: they can proceed as they had originally intended. In which case, why do they need to detonate a second neutron bomb? It is clearly stated it is not just intended to kill the Thals. | * The Dalek's plans don't seem to make sense. At first they want the Thals' anti-radiation drugs because they believe it will enable them to abandon their casings and leave the city to reclaim the planet. However, after some of them have been exposed to the drug they discover that they are now adapted to require radiation to survive. But from this they conclude that they can never leave their city! Surely the whole point is that since the rest of the planet is still irradiated they don't need the drug to leave the city: they can proceed as they had originally intended. In which case, why do they need to detonate a second neutron bomb? It is clearly stated it is not just intended to kill the Thals. | ||
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::The countdown stopped because the power had finally been completely drained as a result of the short-circuit set up by Susan and the Doctor just before their capture. | ::The countdown stopped because the power had finally been completely drained as a result of the short-circuit set up by Susan and the Doctor just before their capture. | ||
:::There's a specific Dalek in the room who is doing the counting. At the point where the countdown stops, he clearly on screen sees a Thal and rolls across the room to attack instead. | |||
* Why don't the Daleks exterminate the Doctor and Susan instead of capturing them in episode 6? | * Why don't the Daleks exterminate the Doctor and Susan instead of capturing them in episode 6? | ||
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* Some of the measuring equipment in the room The Doctor, Susan and Ian discover doesn't seem designed for use by Daleks. | * Some of the measuring equipment in the room The Doctor, Susan and Ian discover doesn't seem designed for use by Daleks. | ||
:: The Daleks are a race that sometimes used slaves for them to work, maybe they had some before those events and they left their equipment before being most likely executed. | :: The Daleks are a race that sometimes used slaves for them to work, maybe they had some before those events and they left their equipment before being most likely executed. | ||
:::This room seems to be on or near the surface layer of the city, being just off the entrance hall where the four separate. Dialogue throughout- specifically Barbara's line in episode two about the lift having taken her 'miles underground', and the time the lift takes to rise to the surface in episode four- indicates that by the time of this story, the Daleks themselves mostly live and work in the deeper, subterranean levels. The surface may not have been regularly used since a time when they were more humanoid. | |||
* At the end, the Thals don't have the knowledge to use basic equipment from the Daleks, appearing as a somehow primitive folk. But still, they were able to develop an anti-radiation-drug with equipment like vials. And, anyway, it's strange that there is a drug for anti-radiation, but that's something else. | * At the end, the Thals don't have the knowledge to use basic equipment from the Daleks, appearing as a somehow primitive folk. But still, they were able to develop an anti-radiation-drug with equipment like vials. And, anyway, it's strange that there is a drug for anti-radiation, but that's something else. | ||
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::The Tardis translation matrix would have been in effect when Susan wrote the letter, so it would have been written in the Daleks language. | ::The Tardis translation matrix would have been in effect when Susan wrote the letter, so it would have been written in the Daleks language. | ||
::Possibly they have a translation app installed in their machines? Hard to imagine how Google would make it to a post-apocalyptic Skaro, but I wouldn't rule it out... | ::Possibly they have a translation app installed in their machines? Hard to imagine how Google would make it to a post-apocalyptic Skaro, but I wouldn't rule it out... | ||
::If it is true that this story takes place chronologically after The Dalek Invasion of Earth then the Daleks will have had exposure to the English language. | |||
* When Dalek shows the other Dalek the letter, what language is it? | |||
::It would be in the Dalek language, but we saw it as English because the TARDIS Translation Matrix seems to effect BBC sound equipment and cameras. | |||
*In episode 5 after Barbara wakes up in the petrified jungle, she says that she would have rather slept with a pillow and spring mattress. The Thal next to her responds with a smile despite there being no reason as to why he would know what she is talking about. | |||
::Not no reason; firstly, the Thals are remnants of an advanced civilization and may have, if not the items themselves, then at least memories and records of them. And secondly, even if they don't, Barbara's meaning is quite clear from context clues even if the Thal has no knowledge of those specific items; she's indicating that she'd rather have slept with items that would offer more comfort than sleeping on the hard floor of a forest. | |||
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