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*As Mickey asks, just what is the horse doing on the spaceship? Did it just happen to walk through one of the time windows (and, if so, why was that window left wide open for anything to walk through) and avoid being taken apart for parts by the robots, or was it already on the ship and somehow avoided being taken apart for the year since the ship was stranded, and didn't show up when the Doctor scanned for lifeforms. ''It is never made clear exactly when the horse walked through and it is stated that the robots needed Reinette's brain for their ship and so they could have just dismissed the horse if it wondered through after all but that one repair had been made.'' | *As Mickey asks, just what is the horse doing on the spaceship? Did it just happen to walk through one of the time windows (and, if so, why was that window left wide open for anything to walk through) and avoid being taken apart for parts by the robots, or was it already on the ship and somehow avoided being taken apart for the year since the ship was stranded, and didn't show up when the Doctor scanned for lifeforms. ''It is never made clear exactly when the horse walked through and it is stated that the robots needed Reinette's brain for their ship and so they could have just dismissed the horse if it wondered through after all but that one repair had been made.'' | ||
*Why doesn't the service robots' programming prevent them from using the crew for parts? | *Why doesn't the service robots' programming prevent them from using the crew for parts? | ||
''If you were a mechanical worker on board the SS. Madame de Pompadour, would you program the robots '''not''' to use the crew as spare parts if they hi-jacked the ship, maxed out the warp engines, created time windows to check if the Uncrowned Queen of France was 'compatible' for their systems and turn the spacecraft into a makeshift 'chopshop'? One: would you have thought of that? Two: Is that likely to have been taken into account due to it happening before? No.'' | |||
*There are several scenes where the robots put their dissection tools next to a human's body, yet we never see them even attempt to use them. | *There are several scenes where the robots put their dissection tools next to a human's body, yet we never see them even attempt to use them. | ||
*Why, exactly, does being part of events mean that the Doctor can't use the TARDIS to get to France? He's used it to travel around within an adventure before - as long as he doesn't arrive before he left, he isn't breaking any kind of causality. And why - at the end - doesn't he return to pick up Reinette by using the TARDIS instead of using the fireplace? [It has been suggested that the nature of the time windows would make such a trip either very difficult or impossible. Though this raises the question of why the Doctor claims that it's because he's already involved in events.] | *Why, exactly, does being part of events mean that the Doctor can't use the TARDIS to get to France? He's used it to travel around within an adventure before - as long as he doesn't arrive before he left, he isn't breaking any kind of causality. And why - at the end - doesn't he return to pick up Reinette by using the TARDIS instead of using the fireplace? [It has been suggested that the nature of the time windows would make such a trip either very difficult or impossible. Though this raises the question of why the Doctor claims that it's because he's already involved in events.] | ||
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*What happens to the robots after the doctor leaves, since space age clockwork in France in the 18th century would change history? ''Reinette probably has them completely destroyed after the Doctor leaves.'' | *What happens to the robots after the doctor leaves, since space age clockwork in France in the 18th century would change history? ''Reinette probably has them completely destroyed after the Doctor leaves.'' | ||
* Why build the robots with their blades, knifes, knock out syringes or short range teleport what exactly is them point of any of them? | * Why build the robots with their blades, knifes, knock out syringes or short range teleport what exactly is them point of any of them? ''They are '''repair robots''' so the blades and knives would have been understandable (as of use for cutting ropes and wires). The knock out syringe could have been used in the event of coming across a 'stow-away' or hi-jacker, unbeknown to the programmers that they could uses the little imagination that they had to do it themselves. The short range teleport would have been useful if they were in a place of danger such as a pipe leak, if there was something that was in urgent need of attention or simply if the crew needed the robots to do something for them and get it to them in as little time as possible.'' | ||
==Continuity== | ==Continuity== | ||
