Talk:The Beast Below (TV story)

Suggested Plot holes:

The computer registers Amy to be over 1300 years old, when it should register her to be over 700

Good spot there. It suggests either that the timeframe of the story was changed at some point, and the age calculation wasn't updated. Or Amy somehow gets registered several hundred years before she was born... possibly in a future adventure?

79.123.73.227 20:09, April 10, 2010 (UTC) Sensorite 20:09, April 10, 2010 (UTC)

One point: I know the Doctor mentions that mankind branched out in the 29th century, but I can't remember any point where it mentions explicity that they are travelling in the 2800s (although I may be wrong). Isn't it possible that they have been travelling for hundreds of years, perhaps up to the 3300s (which makes Amy about the right age)?

If the Doctor and Amy are in the mouth of the star whale, shouldn't that mean they are exposed to the open space and suffocate? Conmck22 18:45, April 10, 2010 (UTC)

Because the Star Whale has it's mouth closed? We only see the teeth, not the stars outside. Presumably it's lips form an air-tight seal, or it's lips had been sealed surgically when the feeding tubes were inserted. Any oxygen atomosphere would then come from Starship UK, possibly from the compressed air cannons used to force food down the tubes.

This also explains why The Doctor and Amy end up in an overflow tube when the Star Whale vomits, rather than being expelled into space.

79.123.73.227 20:09, April 10, 2010 (UTC) Sensorite 20:09, April 10, 2010 (UTC)

Production Errors

In the pre-credit sequence there is a shot of Timmy in the lift with the Smiler smiling. Then the shot switches to the "test card girl". Then back to a shot with Timmy in the lift with the Smiler already having it's "disapproving" face. Only then does the shot switch to a close-up of the Smiler, still with the smiling face, turning it's head to the disapproving face.

Setting

The machine gave Amy's age as about 1300, as Amy is 21 in 2010, this story should be given a setting in the 34th century not the 29th.