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===Ratings=== | ===Ratings=== | ||
*Episode | *Episode One - 7.3 million viewers | ||
*Episode | *Episode Two - 8.0 million viewers | ||
*Episode | *Episode Three - 8.1 million viewers | ||
*Episode | *Episode Four - 8.4 million viewers | ||
===Myths=== | ===Myths=== | ||
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===Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors=== | ===Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors=== | ||
*Why do the Time Lords confine themselves to simply warning the Doctor about the Master's arrival rather than arresting and trying him? Surely his actions are no less criminal in their eyes than the Doctor's. ''The Time Lords often have ulterior motives, which involve letting events play out with minimal interference on their part. | *Why do the Time Lords confine themselves to simply warning the Doctor about the Master's arrival rather than arresting and trying him? Surely his actions are no less criminal in their eyes than the Doctor's. ''The Time Lords often have ulterior motives, which involve letting events play out with minimal interference on their part. Also, keep in mind that The Time Lords weren't able to track down The Doctor till he called them to deal with the War Lords. It could be they have no way of knowing The Master's whereabouts, just that he's headed for Earth. They may have been planning to arrest him, but he keeps escaping before they can get there.'' | ||
*All elements of [[CSO]] have a lot of flaring/fuzzing around the edges of the CSOed image (a museum, the outside of a radio telescope, a lunchbox interior, a lab, the interior of two cars and the coach, a phone box, a kitchen, a quarry and everywhere the killer doll goes). ''Well you cannot expected a fairly new technique to be perfect'' | *All elements of [[CSO]] have a lot of flaring/fuzzing around the edges of the CSOed image (a museum, the outside of a radio telescope, a lunchbox interior, a lab, the interior of two cars and the coach, a phone box, a kitchen, a quarry and everywhere the killer doll goes). ''Well you cannot expected a fairly new technique to be perfect'' | ||
*In episode one the Doctor could have got to the volatizer by hopping in through the open window (which is how the Master must have got out having set the trap). | *In episode one the Doctor could have got to the volatizer by hopping in through the open window (which is how the Master must have got out having set the trap). | ||
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*The Doctor tells Yates to stand back while he defuses the volatizer. He might have clarified just how far back to stand. He says later that the volatizer had the destructive capability of a 15-megaton bomb. | *The Doctor tells Yates to stand back while he defuses the volatizer. He might have clarified just how far back to stand. He says later that the volatizer had the destructive capability of a 15-megaton bomb. | ||
*Jo can't remember where she heard the voice that told her to set off the bomb. The Master only told her to forget meeting him. She was supposed to remember meeting Mr. Farrell and to return with a negative report, that everything was in order. ''(This is consistent. She remembers meeting Farrell, but it doesn't stand out from all the other plastic facilities she visited that day. She doesn't know which one she met the Master at.)'' | *Jo can't remember where she heard the voice that told her to set off the bomb. The Master only told her to forget meeting him. She was supposed to remember meeting Mr. Farrell and to return with a negative report, that everything was in order. ''(This is consistent. She remembers meeting Farrell, but it doesn't stand out from all the other plastic facilities she visited that day. She doesn't know which one she met the Master at.)'' | ||
*At the climax of the episode, the policeman turns around with a very normal face. Cut to the Doctor, then back to a very obviously fake face. | *At the climax of the episode, the policeman turns around with a very normal face. Cut to the Doctor, then back to a very obviously fake face. ''The disguise probably deteriorates at some point.'' | ||
*The Doctor discovers that carbon dioxide from the lungs dissolves the film that the daffodils shoot at people's faces, ostensibly explaining why the film was not found on any of the victims. If that's true, why didn't the victims' own breath dissolve it in time to let them breathe again? If it's a delayed reaction, then the victims would already have suffocated and not have had any breath left to dissolve the film. ''The stuff probably absorbs the carbon dioxide then after a while it dissolves.'' | *The Doctor discovers that carbon dioxide from the lungs dissolves the film that the daffodils shoot at people's faces, ostensibly explaining why the film was not found on any of the victims. If that's true, why didn't the victims' own breath dissolve it in time to let them breathe again? If it's a delayed reaction, then the victims would already have suffocated and not have had any breath left to dissolve the film. ''The stuff probably absorbs the carbon dioxide then after a while it dissolves.'' | ||
*How does the Master disguise himself as someone of a different height? And, indeed, why disguise himself at all? ''(Disguising himself is prudent. He can't be sure how much UNIT knows, and therefore if someone there might be able to recognize him. His hypnotic ability is one method at his disposal to have also appeared taller to those he met. | *How does the Master disguise himself as someone of a different height? And, indeed, why disguise himself at all? ''(Disguising himself is prudent. He can't be sure how much UNIT knows, and therefore if someone there might be able to recognize him. His hypnotic ability is one method at his disposal to have also appeared taller to those he met. Also, a true master of disguise can appear to be a different height, at least to some extent, and of course it's easier to appear taller than shorter.)'' | ||
==Continuity== | ==Continuity== | ||
