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:::Yes, "''most'' secure" is certainly advertisement boasting, but I'm sure the rich customers require a certain level of security beyond simple advertisement. A telepathic guard (''one'' single telepathic guard, for crying out loud) is ridiculously useless in an universe where pocket teleportes, transmat rays, vortex manipulators and other similar gadgets exist. So the pocket teleporters are a very bad plot device (even worse than the usual "foolish wand-waving" with the screwdriver that fixes everything if the plot requires, and fixes nothing if the plot requires): "oh, too bad, we can't use the TARDIS... but we can ***-pull a briefcase of pocket teleporters with the label "this is not a deus ex machina". There's a good (in-universe and out-of-universe) reason if Harry Potter does not simply teleport out of Gringotts :) | :::Yes, "''most'' secure" is certainly advertisement boasting, but I'm sure the rich customers require a certain level of security beyond simple advertisement. A telepathic guard (''one'' single telepathic guard, for crying out loud) is ridiculously useless in an universe where pocket teleportes, transmat rays, vortex manipulators and other similar gadgets exist. So the pocket teleporters are a very bad plot device (even worse than the usual "foolish wand-waving" with the screwdriver that fixes everything if the plot requires, and fixes nothing if the plot requires): "oh, too bad, we can't use the TARDIS... but we can ***-pull a briefcase of pocket teleporters with the label "this is not a deus ex machina". There's a good (in-universe and out-of-universe) reason if Harry Potter does not simply teleport out of Gringotts :) | ||
*The first device the gang finds in the vault enables them to make a hole in the floor. How do they get down the hole without injury? | *The first device the gang finds in the vault enables them to make a hole in the floor. How do they get down the hole without injury? | ||
*How was the Doctor able to get into the Bank undetected, the first time, when he left the devices for his future self? | |||
Why did Psi (think he had) sacrificed his life, when he was the one person that could erase his memories, and not be affected by the Teller? | |||
