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* Rachel Jensen uses the name Dalek without having heard it. - ''The Doctor shouts at the Dalek in the junkyard yelling among other things "Oi Dalek..." it is possible Jensen heard him along with the other characters.'' | * Rachel Jensen uses the name Dalek without having heard it. - ''The Doctor shouts at the Dalek in the junkyard yelling among other things "Oi Dalek..." it is possible Jensen heard him along with the other characters.'' | ||
* If it is 5:15 when the TV is playing then it should be dark. In addition, the Doctor asks the others to lunch, apparently later the same day. ''Again, it's never stated exactly when during the year this story takes place. If it's mid-summer then it wouldn't be dark at 5:15. It could be argued that this isn't supported by Susan Foreman arriving at the junkyard after dark after going home from school (presumably late-afternoon) in ''An Unearthly Child'' but that story never indicates if she actually went ''straight'' home.'' | * If it is 5:15 when the TV is playing then it should be dark. In addition, the Doctor asks the others to lunch, apparently later the same day. ''Again, it's never stated exactly when during the year this story takes place. If it's mid-summer then it wouldn't be dark at 5:15. It could be argued that this isn't supported by Susan Foreman arriving at the junkyard after dark after going home from school (presumably late-afternoon) in ''An Unearthly Child'' but that story never indicates if she actually went ''straight'' home.'' | ||
* Ace is wearing a patch on her jacket of the Soviet sickle & | * Ace is wearing a patch on her jacket of the Soviet sickle & hammer, and yet no one says anything, despite 1963 being the height of the [[Cold War]]. | ||
*The Doctor seems uncertain about what has actually happened to Skaro. After the mothership is destroyed, he says that the explosion of Skaro's sun destroyed the planet. However, he later tells the Supreme Dalek that its planet is a burnt cinder circling a dead sun, suggesting that Skaro still exists but has been devastated. He then tells the Supreme Dalek in the same conversation that its home has been disintegrated. 'He was trying to get the thing to self destruct so he was probably trying to confuse it so he does not think about the Doctors doing and cancel it out. ''(Skaro's sun exploded, disintegrating everything on Skaro, leaving the planet a "burnt cinder" and the sun itself effectively dead. From a practical standpoint, the world is "destroyed" even if part of it still exists. There doesn't appear to be an inconsistency.)'' | *The Doctor seems uncertain about what has actually happened to Skaro. After the mothership is destroyed, he says that the explosion of Skaro's sun destroyed the planet. However, he later tells the Supreme Dalek that its planet is a burnt cinder circling a dead sun, suggesting that Skaro still exists but has been devastated. He then tells the Supreme Dalek in the same conversation that its home has been disintegrated. 'He was trying to get the thing to self destruct so he was probably trying to confuse it so he does not think about the Doctors doing and cancel it out. ''(Skaro's sun exploded, disintegrating everything on Skaro, leaving the planet a "burnt cinder" and the sun itself effectively dead. From a practical standpoint, the world is "destroyed" even if part of it still exists. There doesn't appear to be an inconsistency.)'' | ||
*On Earth, the Doctor tells the Supreme Dalek that its home is a trillion miles away. The Milky Way galaxy is approximately 100 quadrillion miles in diameter and over 5 trillion miles thick, and it seems likely from ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan]]'' (in which the Daleks enlist the aid of civilisations in the Fifth Galaxy in order to invade the [[Sol]] system) that Skaro is not in the Milky Way. Therefore, either the Doctor is wrong, or Skaro is in the Milky Way. ''It is possible that the Doctor is not exactly wrong, but is being poetic - "a trillion miles away", while untrue, flows better than "a hundred quadrillion miles away". If the Doctor is in the business of being economical with the truth, it is possible that his placing of Skaro's destruction 1000 years in the past or future (i.e. around 963 or 2963) is also inaccurate. This would mean that Skaro could still exist by the time of ''The Daleks' Master Plan'' in the year 4000, as well as during any stories set after ''Master Plan''. Of course, things change if you believe the [[Dalek Prime]] in ''[[War of the Daleks]]'' that it was in fact [[Antalin]] which was destroyed in ''Remembrance'', as Antalin could have been destroyed in 2963 (or 963, but that date seems less likely) with Skaro surviving beyond 4000.'' | *On Earth, the Doctor tells the Supreme Dalek that its home is a trillion miles away. The Milky Way galaxy is approximately 100 quadrillion miles in diameter and over 5 trillion miles thick, and it seems likely from ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan]]'' (in which the Daleks enlist the aid of civilisations in the Fifth Galaxy in order to invade the [[Sol]] system) that Skaro is not in the Milky Way. Therefore, either the Doctor is wrong, or Skaro is in the Milky Way. ''It is possible that the Doctor is not exactly wrong, but is being poetic - "a trillion miles away", while untrue, flows better than "a hundred quadrillion miles away". If the Doctor is in the business of being economical with the truth, it is possible that his placing of Skaro's destruction 1000 years in the past or future (i.e. around 963 or 2963) is also inaccurate. This would mean that Skaro could still exist by the time of ''The Daleks' Master Plan'' in the year 4000, as well as during any stories set after ''Master Plan''. Of course, things change if you believe the [[Dalek Prime]] in ''[[War of the Daleks]]'' that it was in fact [[Antalin]] which was destroyed in ''Remembrance'', as Antalin could have been destroyed in 2963 (or 963, but that date seems less likely) with Skaro surviving beyond 4000.'' | ||
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*Why didn't the Imperial Daleks just take the Special Weapons Dalek with them in the first place? ''The novelisation states that the Special Weapons Dalek is only used in extreme situations, presumabley the Imperials thought it was an 'extreme situation' when they were losing against the renegades. '' | *Why didn't the Imperial Daleks just take the Special Weapons Dalek with them in the first place? ''The novelisation states that the Special Weapons Dalek is only used in extreme situations, presumabley the Imperials thought it was an 'extreme situation' when they were losing against the renegades. '' | ||
* When asked if the disorienting device he built on [[Spiridon]] in [[Planet of the Daleks]] was effective, the Doctor replies that it did 'absolutely nothing'. But it was effective. It did disable a Dalek, though it was destroyed in the process. | * When asked if the disorienting device he built on [[Spiridon]] in [[Planet of the Daleks]] was effective, the Doctor replies that it did 'absolutely nothing'. But it was effective. It did disable a Dalek, though it was destroyed in the process. | ||
* The Doctor deplores violence, commenting that weapons are 'useless in the end'. Yet he has no compunction about destroying an entire planet, especially considering that [[Skaro]] is not only the Dalek homeworld, but home to the [[Thals]] as well. | * The Doctor deplores violence, commenting that weapons are 'useless in the end'. Yet he has no compunction about destroying an entire planet, especially considering that [[Skaro]] is not only the Dalek homeworld, but home to the [[Thals]] as well. ''It's possible in the time The Doctor sends the Hand of Omega to, the Daleks have completely exterminated the Thals, or maybe the Thals have left the planet.'' ''(He himself does not fire the weapon, the Daleks do. He has simply set it to be used defensively so that if they do indeed fire it, it will essentially backfire and destroy their own homeworld instead of the intended target.)'' | ||
* How could the Doctor mistake Gilmore for the Brigadier, since Lethbridge-Stewart didn't become Brigadier until the late sixties or early seventies? ''(The Doctor called Gilmore Brigadier because Glimore reminded him of the Brig.)'' | * How could the Doctor mistake Gilmore for the Brigadier, since Lethbridge-Stewart didn't become Brigadier until the late sixties or early seventies? ''(The Doctor called Gilmore Brigadier because Glimore reminded him of the Brig.)'' | ||
* The first soldier to be exterminated on-screen has a gun in his left hand then it switches to his right hand when he gets exterminated. | * The first soldier to be exterminated on-screen has a gun in his left hand then it switches to his right hand when he gets exterminated. | ||
* If Skaro was destroyed, how come they put the Master on trial there in the TV Movie? | |||
==Continuity== | ==Continuity== | ||
