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::Well, there's the ''usual'' explaination, the ontological paradox, old as Oedipus and particularly loved by Moffat and his gang: the Doctor hires three other people because Karabraxos tells him that he "robbed/will rob" the bank with three other people, on the solar flare day, with the lead pipe (no, sorry, that was from [[The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)|another story]]). | ::Well, there's the ''usual'' explaination, the ontological paradox, old as Oedipus and particularly loved by Moffat and his gang: the Doctor hires three other people because Karabraxos tells him that he "robbed/will rob" the bank with three other people, on the solar flare day, with the lead pipe (no, sorry, that was from [[The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)|another story]]). | ||
:::So how did the Doctor get around security to plant all of those tools? | :::So how did the Doctor get around security to plant all of those tools? | ||
:::Madame Karabraoxos could have told him all of the information given she witnessed the entire event play out, so he just rinsed and repeated before wiping his memories. | |||
*Suspension of disbelief is important in stories, and even more important in science fiction: we need to believe the Doctor's world is real even if we know it's not, BUT that world must be consistent. At the beginning of the episode the writers 1) remove the magic blue box from the game (''as usual'', to show the audience that Doctor is really in dire straits), and 2) they establish that Karabraxos is the ''most secure bank in the universe''. But THEN they destroy all suspension of disbelief with the '''teleporters'''! WHY on <s>Krop Tor</s>Hell is Karabraxos known as the ''most secure bank in the universe'', when you can sneak in and out at will with a friggin' '''pocket teleporter'''? And if it is so easy for the Doctor to get a whole briefcase of pocket teleporters, why he never used them before or after this adventure? (out-of-universe: of course, because the TARDIS and the sonic gadgets are already overpowered game-breaking tools, and pocket teleporters would be just too much, that's why the writes made him disable Jack's vortex manipulator: Jack already had a story-breaking superpower, immortality). | *Suspension of disbelief is important in stories, and even more important in science fiction: we need to believe the Doctor's world is real even if we know it's not, BUT that world must be consistent. At the beginning of the episode the writers 1) remove the magic blue box from the game (''as usual'', to show the audience that Doctor is really in dire straits), and 2) they establish that Karabraxos is the ''most secure bank in the universe''. But THEN they destroy all suspension of disbelief with the '''teleporters'''! WHY on <s>Krop Tor</s>Hell is Karabraxos known as the ''most secure bank in the universe'', when you can sneak in and out at will with a friggin' '''pocket teleporter'''? And if it is so easy for the Doctor to get a whole briefcase of pocket teleporters, why he never used them before or after this adventure? (out-of-universe: of course, because the TARDIS and the sonic gadgets are already overpowered game-breaking tools, and pocket teleporters would be just too much, that's why the writes made him disable Jack's vortex manipulator: Jack already had a story-breaking superpower, immortality). | ||
::Just because people say it's the most secure bank in the universe doesn't necessarily make it true. | ::Just because people say it's the most secure bank in the universe doesn't necessarily make it true. | ||
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*How was the Doctor able to get into the Bank undetected, the first time, when he left the devices for his future self? | *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? | *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? | ||
::Psi mentioned earlier in the episode he once erased his memories of his loved ones and regretted it because he no longer felt the love he presumed he once did for them. Given the choice between permanent amnesia and death, he'd rather die whole than live the rest of his life a shell so to speak. | |||
*How did the Doctor know the location of the boxes inside the vault, and that they were items needed by his cohorts? | *How did the Doctor know the location of the boxes inside the vault, and that they were items needed by his cohorts? | ||
:Madame Karabraoxos could have told him all of the information given she witnessed the entire event play out | |||
*Why didn't the Teller simply turn Madame Karabraxos's brain to soup, and rescue its mate itself? The Teller knew the vault combination! | *Why didn't the Teller simply turn Madame Karabraxos's brain to soup, and rescue its mate itself? The Teller knew the vault combination! | ||
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