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Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/Dragonfire (edit)
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* It's not exactly an "error", in the sense that the production team intended it, but the literal [[cliffhanger]] at the end of part one is a big, ol' cheat. At the end of part one, the Doctor looks down an almost bottomless cliff of ice. But by the start of the next, the camera shifts to reveal that there's a handy little ledge, onto which Glitz is able to pull the Doctor. | * It's not exactly an "error", in the sense that the production team intended it, but the literal [[cliffhanger]] at the end of part one is a big, ol' cheat. At the end of part one, the Doctor looks down an almost bottomless cliff of ice. But by the start of the next, the camera shifts to reveal that there's a handy little ledge, onto which Glitz is able to pull the Doctor. | ||
::A trick of perspective; it was likely there all along, but the ice cliff was jagged and made of tons of uniform-looking ice, which presumably would have made seeing the ledge that Glitz found trickier from the Doctor's perspective. | |||
* It's unclear why the Doctor, went out on the ledge. | * It's unclear why the Doctor, went out on the ledge. | ||
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* Why does Stellar run around an ice planet in a dress? | * Why does Stellar run around an ice planet in a dress? | ||
::There are 2 possibilities: First, although Stellar is described in this wiki as an Earth human, her species is never referred to on screen, so she may not be human & Iceworld may not seem cold to her species. (Kane looks human, too, but most of Iceworld is uncomfortably hot for him.) Second, even if she is human, individuals vary in their sensitivity to cold. She's also highly active most of the time, which would keep her warm. | ::There are 2 possibilities: First, although Stellar is described in this wiki as an Earth human, her species is never referred to on screen, so she may not be human & Iceworld may not seem cold to her species. (Kane looks human, too, but most of Iceworld is uncomfortably hot for him.) Second, even if she is human, individuals vary in their sensitivity to cold. She's also highly active most of the time, which would keep her warm. | ||
::The ice planet is also used as an intergalactic supermarket. There is presumably some kind of heating system which makes the parts we see, most of which are intended to be used by people, at a relatively comfortable temperature. Very few of the characters we see display any excessive signs of cold despite being dressed for, at most, mild and temperate conditions. | |||
* At the end, why doesn't Stellar's mother behave as if there's been a massacre (which there has)? | * At the end, why doesn't Stellar's mother behave as if there's been a massacre (which there has)? | ||
::Stellar's mother had been searching for Stellar & was not present when the massacre occurred. By the end, when she finally finds Stellar, she has still not encountered anything to indicate that there has been a massacre -- no heaps of corpses, only an absence of the usual throng. She doesn't behave as if there's been a massacre because she doesn't know there has been. | ::Stellar's mother had been searching for Stellar & was not present when the massacre occurred. By the end, when she finally finds Stellar, she has still not encountered anything to indicate that there has been a massacre -- no heaps of corpses, only an absence of the usual throng. She doesn't behave as if there's been a massacre because she doesn't know there has been. | ||