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*At the beginning of episode 2, Styre has just captured Sarah and Roth. One scene later, Harry discovers Roth chained to the cliff. Shortly thereafter, Sarah is found chained to the rocks in a different area. In the middle of the episode, Harry overhears Styre reporting that Roth died from dehydration after 9 days. Sarah is then freed by the Doctor. Either the first 15 minutes take place over 9 days, with absolutely no mention of the passage of that time at all, or Styre is lying. If the first part did last 9 days and we never saw nightfall, then Sarah should have also died of dehydration, or at the very least been extremely weak/delirious. If Styre was lying, no explanation was ever even implied for why he would. As the Doctor notes, Sontarans are meticulous, and Styre is writing the report that will guide his entire race on a galaxy wide conquest, not something a Sontaran would fudge. If he was lying because he was being pressured by the Marshall to rap up his experiment more quickly, then why would he purposefully put off the Marshall and ask for more time to complete additional experiments when he could just as easily have lied about them too? | *At the beginning of episode 2, Styre has just captured Sarah and Roth. One scene later, Harry discovers Roth chained to the cliff. Shortly thereafter, Sarah is found chained to the rocks in a different area. In the middle of the episode, Harry overhears Styre reporting that Roth died from dehydration after 9 days. Sarah is then freed by the Doctor. Either the first 15 minutes take place over 9 days, with absolutely no mention of the passage of that time at all, or Styre is lying. If the first part did last 9 days and we never saw nightfall, then Sarah should have also died of dehydration, or at the very least been extremely weak/delirious. If Styre was lying, no explanation was ever even implied for why he would. As the Doctor notes, Sontarans are meticulous, and Styre is writing the report that will guide his entire race on a galaxy wide conquest, not something a Sontaran would fudge. If he was lying because he was being pressured by the Marshall to rap up his experiment more quickly, then why would he purposefully put off the Marshall and ask for more time to complete additional experiments when he could just as easily have lied about them too? | ||
::Roth was killed when Styre shot him. The prisoner Harry met was not Roth but a crewmate who looked a bit like him. This man could have been chained up for nine days with no contradiction of the rest of the plot. | |||
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