Difficulty
Difficulty may refer the degree a game, sport of challenge was to complete. Or it may refer to the complexity of a situation, understanding or conceptual association. (TV: Match of the Who [+]Loading...["Match of the Who (TV story)"], The Seeds of Death [+]Loading...["The Seeds of Death (TV story)"], The Doctor's Wife [+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"]) It could also refer to impasses, obstructions or obstacles that prevent the accomplishment of a task. (TV: The Deadly Assassin [+]Loading...["The Deadly Assassin (TV story)"]) It could also refer to the difficulty in adequately understanding or explaining a situation, concept or experience. (TV: Planet of Evil [+]Loading...["Planet of Evil (TV story)"], The Armageddon Factor [+]Loading...["The Armageddon Factor (TV story)"]) Sometimes situations that existed so far outside an individual's understanding or experience made it quite difficult to explain or adequately understand. (TV: The War Games [+]Loading...["The War Games (TV story)"])
It could also refer to knowledge which is unknown, or disputed, such as the Doctor's date or birth or the Kandyman's heart's construction. (TV: Nightmare of Eden [+]Loading...["Nightmare of Eden (TV story)"], The Happiness Patrol [+]Loading...["The Happiness Patrol (TV story)"])
Conflict[[edit] | [edit source]]
Upon seeing Cybermen Lieutenant Scott proclaimed that they looked difficult to kill. (TV: Earthshock [+]Loading...["Earthshock (TV story)"])
Culture[[edit] | [edit source]]
Tegan Jovanka found it difficult to explain the culture and fashions on Earth, and instead elected to draw them for the Urbankans. (TV: Four to Doomsday [+]Loading...["Four to Doomsday (TV story)"]
After 50 years on Peladon Alpha Centauri told the Third Doctor that there had been difficulties assisting with the Federation assisting the Feudal planet. (TV: The Monster of Peladon [+]Loading...["The Monster of Peladon (TV story)"])
Interfaces[[edit] | [edit source]]
Tegan Jovanka found the Doctor's TARDIS's controls difficult to understand. (TV: Four to Doomsday [+]Loading...["Four to Doomsday (TV story)"], Earthshock [+]Loading...["Earthshock (TV story)"])
Language[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Doctor's TARDIS sometimes had difficulties with the nuances of the translation of languages. (PROSE: Goth Opera [+]Loading...["Goth Opera (novel)"], Frontier Worlds [+]Loading...["Frontier Worlds (novel)"])
After the Doctor's TARDIS found herself in the body of Idris she proclaimed that tenses were "difficult". (TV: The Doctor's Wife [+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"])
Gholos's language was very hard to understand. (AUDIO: Bang-Bang-a-Boom! [+]Loading...["Bang-Bang-a-Boom! (audio story)"])
Medical[[edit] | [edit source]]
After succumbing to radiation sickness Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton had difficulty staying conscious. (TV: The Daleks [+]Loading...["The Daleks (TV story)"])
Politics[[edit] | [edit source]]
Borusa once stated that all Lord Presidents of Gallifrey were faced with difficult decisions; it was by their decisions they were judged. (TV: The Deadly Assassin [+]Loading...["The Deadly Assassin (TV story)"])
When political truth and actual truth came into conflict on Gallifrey following the Master's attempt on the Eye of Harmony Borusa claimed it was a difficult situation. (TV: The Deadly Assassin [+]Loading...["The Deadly Assassin (TV story)"])
Recreation[[edit] | [edit source]]
During one Match of the Day, the Fifteenth Doctor claimed that it was "hard" (ie difficult) when one was up against a goalkeeper with cybernetically-extendable arms, something Ian Wright agreed with. (TV: Match of the Who [+]Loading...["Match of the Who (TV story)"])
Science[[edit] | [edit source]]
Pin galaxies were difficult to study as they exited for only one attosecond. (TV: The Two Doctors [+]Loading...["The Two Doctors (TV story)"])
It was enormously difficult to leave the universe for a bubble universe according to the Eleventh Doctor. (TV: The Doctor's Wife [+]Loading...["The Doctor's Wife (TV story)"])
The Controller told Jo Grant that time travel was very difficult. (TV: Day of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Day of the Daleks (TV story)"])
Technology[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Second Doctor told Jamie McCrimmon that weather technology was a difficult technology, and that results were not immediate. (TV: The Seeds of Death [+]Loading...["The Seeds of Death (TV story)"]) Likewise Clent told Jamie and Victoria Waterfield that the ioniser was a difficult technology. (TV: The Ice Warriors [+]Loading...["The Ice Warriors (TV story)"]
TARDISes[[edit] | [edit source]]
Professor Chronotis told Clare Keightley that his TARDIS was very difficult to repair, with the Interfacial resonator requiring two operations which must be performed absolutely simultaneously. (TV: Shada [+]Loading...["Shada (TV story)"])
