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*Rickston Slade is seen using a mobile phone (or something similar) both before and after the crash, why couldn't he have used it to send an SOS, the survivors didn't need to get to the Main Deck at all. ''They also needed to stop the ship crashing, it may have taken a while for the distress vehicle to reach them. Also, given how Slade is portrayed in the episode, he may have simply forgotten to mention he had a phone. The DVD release of the story included deleted scenes in which it is stated that the phone is not working, presumably due to its signal being blocked.'' | *Rickston Slade is seen using a mobile phone (or something similar) both before and after the crash, why couldn't he have used it to send an SOS, the survivors didn't need to get to the Main Deck at all. ''They also needed to stop the ship crashing, it may have taken a while for the distress vehicle to reach them. Also, given how Slade is portrayed in the episode, he may have simply forgotten to mention he had a phone. The DVD release of the story included deleted scenes in which it is stated that the phone is not working, presumably due to its signal being blocked.'' | ||
*Related to the above, the Doctor is seen using a telephone on the bridge to contact Buckingham Palace. Couldn't Frame have been instructed to "phone down" to Earth to warn them about the danger? ''As this occurs prior to [[DW]]: [[The Stolen Earth]] the general population wasn't aware of alien life yet, and who would Frame have called? Contacting [[Torchwood 3]] or [[UNIT]] would have probably resulted in the ship being blown out of the sky, an option the Doctor would not have sanctioned. Actually, by the time of the special, Humans were well informed about the existence of alien life, considering Sycorax, the Cybermen and The Daleks invaded | *Related to the above, the Doctor is seen using a telephone on the bridge to contact Buckingham Palace. Couldn't Frame have been instructed to "phone down" to Earth to warn them about the danger? ''As this occurs prior to [[DW]]: [[The Stolen Earth]] the general population wasn't aware of alien life yet, and who would Frame have called? Contacting [[Torchwood 3]] or [[UNIT]] would have probably resulted in the ship being blown out of the sky, an option the Doctor would not have sanctioned. '''Actually, by the time of the special, Humans were well informed about the existence of alien life, considering Sycorax, the Cybermen and The Daleks invaded the whole world 2 years previously, and the racnoss invasion a year after that and the hospital being taken to the moon and back, not to mention there was still the toclafane as their acknowledgemnt was not erased (the invasion however was) The master himself confirmed that humanity knew about these events publicly. In fact, London was deserted because of previous chistmas invasions, as stated by Wilf in this episode''''' | ||
* Why was there an English flag in the room where the TARDIS landed? ''This is once again most likely because the ship is based on the alien's perceptions of the real Earth Titanic. Many things in the ship are designed to follow this pattern. It's possible that the flag may be incorrectly placed if this were the real Titanic, but given how many other details were wrong (i.e. Christmas in general), this is consistent with the aliens having only a partial knowledge of the facts.'' | * Why was there an English flag in the room where the TARDIS landed? ''This is once again most likely because the ship is based on the alien's perceptions of the real Earth Titanic. Many things in the ship are designed to follow this pattern. It's possible that the flag may be incorrectly placed if this were the real Titanic, but given how many other details were wrong (i.e. Christmas in general), this is consistent with the aliens having only a partial knowledge of the facts.'' | ||