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:::But surely not all these species are needed to form an alliance? Some might not even have time travel technology. In fact, why don't the Daleks disintegrate the Doctor instead of imprisoning him. They do not even need such an elaborate trap. | :::But surely not all these species are needed to form an alliance? Some might not even have time travel technology. In fact, why don't the Daleks disintegrate the Doctor instead of imprisoning him. They do not even need such an elaborate trap. | ||
::::If you watch every Doctor Who story that has ever featured the Daleks, they never just shoot him, and reason is that by this point they must have cottoned on to the fact, if the enemy tries to kill the Doctor, he always wins, it might be from a plan, from a trick or its just luck, but he always wins. The only times that the bad guy gets close to winning is when they don't try and kill, but instead trap him somewhere, of course always gets out, but they get close to winning, and presumably they have realised this, so that's why lock him in an inescapable box. | ::::If you watch every Doctor Who story that has ever featured the Daleks, they never just shoot him, and reason is that by this point they must have cottoned on to the fact, if the enemy tries to kill the Doctor, he always wins, it might be from a plan, from a trick or its just luck, but he always wins. The only times that the bad guy gets close to winning is when they don't try and kill, but instead trap him somewhere, of course always gets out, but they get close to winning, and presumably they have realised this, so that's why lock him in an inescapable box. | ||
::The Judoon are space-police, they would be interested in preventing the destruction of the universe. They are not always on the Doctor's side - as with the stolen planets - because they have different methods. | ::The Judoon are space-police, they would be interested in preventing the destruction of the universe. They are not always on the Doctor's side - as with the stolen planets - because they have different methods. | ||
*Can't the species make their own trap instead of using Amy's memories. They have conquered galaxies, they can make their own stupid trap. | *Can't the species make their own trap instead of using Amy's memories. They have conquered galaxies, they can make their own stupid trap. | ||
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*Whose love is it "that lasts a thousand years"? If it's talking about Amy and Rory, they're ''two thousand years'' away from Rory's "death", and in the wrong direction. | *Whose love is it "that lasts a thousand years"? If it's talking about Amy and Rory, they're ''two thousand years'' away from Rory's "death", and in the wrong direction. | ||
::It is not of Rory and Amy's love but the Doctor and River because even though River won't live a thousand years, she time travels along with the Doctor (separately) and they meet up in the wrong order and it could have been hundreds of years since the doctor last saw River but it could be four weeks since she saw the Doctor. | ::It is not of Rory and Amy's love but the Doctor and River because even though River won't live a thousand years, she time travels along with the Doctor (separately) and they meet up in the wrong order and it could have been hundreds of years since the doctor last saw River but it could be four weeks since she saw the Doctor. | ||
::It's Rory's, he guards Amy for a thousand years in the second part. | ::It's Rory's, he guards Amy for a thousand years in the second part. | ||
*Despite what she said in [[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'', when River pilots the TARDIS here it ''does'' make the dematerialization sound. | *Despite what she said in [[DW]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]'', when River pilots the TARDIS here it ''does'' make the dematerialization sound. | ||
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*If the universe is destroyed, surely Earth should be gone as well? | *If the universe is destroyed, surely Earth should be gone as well? | ||
::It probably is as it 'fades' at the end of the episode. | ::It probably is as it 'fades' at the end of the episode. | ||
::'Eye of the storm' writers cop-out. | ::'Eye of the storm' writers cop-out. | ||
*If the planets are "gone" and destroyed, shouldn't the enemies (e.g. Slitheen) be gone, as their planet, where they are created, has been destroyed? | *If the planets are "gone" and destroyed, shouldn't the enemies (e.g. Slitheen) be gone, as their planet, where they are created, has been destroyed? | ||
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*Would nobody in the art world notice that Van Gogh had apparently painted a police box around 50 years before they existed in that form? | *Would nobody in the art world notice that Van Gogh had apparently painted a police box around 50 years before they existed in that form? | ||
::It was hidden in an attic. | ::It was hidden in an attic. | ||
::*Bracewell is wearing his black leather glove on one hand, which suggests that this is after he has been exposed as an android. However, wasn't he supposed to have fled following the events of Victory of the Daleks to find his long lost love? |