Talk:The Fires of Pompeii (TV story)

I'm new to this, but there's a couple of references that you may want to list. Firstly, The Doctor and Donna instroduce themselves both as Spartacus, a reference to the 1960 film of the same name. Also, when Donna is asking what an auger is(Around 13 mins in), The Doctor explains that she's from Barcelona, a reference to the TV show Fawlty Towers, where the main character explained away the oddness of his waiter manuel, by saying 'Oh don't mind him, he's from Barcelona'. Finally, the two scenes around 5:30 and 9:30 in with the family preparing for the volcano are remarkably similar to a scene in the 1964 film Mary Poppins. [[1]] Is a clip of the scene, around 1 minute in. 86.20.208.2 02:45, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

It's a reference as far as the 'real world' goes (your references are almost word for word for the BBC Fact file which is within the external links page on the BBC site), but the references section is for references to the 'Doctor Who Universe' (stuff like the stuff that's listed in there). If you believe it's a valid point please put it under the story notes, or in a subsection within for 'Cultural notes' or something like that. --Tangerineduel 13:09, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Discontinuity, Plot holes, Errors

"If the eruption of Pompeii gave psychic vision of an alternate timeline in which the Pyroviles succeeded and there was no eruption "without the Doctors intervention" then how did Lucius Dextrus see Donna from London, she should not appear in his timeline and be a Pyrovile."

In this scene, they are not seeing the future, they are reading the Doctor/Donna's minds, so even if London didn't exist, Donna knew she was from London, and he read that.