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*The War Game leaders repeatedly call their home world "the home planet" instead of using its name. ''This is intentional by the production crew. The Time Lord "home planet" is also not referred to by name in this story, nor are individual names given to either the Time Lords or the War Lords other than their titles or pseudonyms. It is meant to leave a degree of mystery around both races.'' | *The War Game leaders repeatedly call their home world "the home planet" instead of using its name. ''This is intentional by the production crew. The Time Lord "home planet" is also not referred to by name in this story, nor are individual names given to either the Time Lords or the War Lords other than their titles or pseudonyms. It is meant to leave a degree of mystery around both races.'' | ||
*When the War Chief and the two Time Lord technicians are shot dead, why don't they regenerate? ''The series has long established that regeneration is not guaranteed (otherwise maintaining any sort of jeopardy for The Doctor would be impossible). It's possible they regenerated off-screen. Or the weapon caused sufficient damage quickly enough to prevent regeneration. '' | *When the War Chief and the two Time Lord technicians are shot dead, why don't they regenerate? ''The series has long established that regeneration is not guaranteed (otherwise maintaining any sort of jeopardy for The Doctor would be impossible). It's possible they regenerated off-screen. Or the weapon caused sufficient damage quickly enough to prevent regeneration. '' | ||
*A man is shown speaking French in the Doctor's presence, yet no one seems able to understand him; what happened to the Doctor's gift of translation? If it isn't active for some reason, then why are the resistance members along with Jamie and Zoe able to understand the Mexicans and Russians? ''Although there was no way the writers could have foreseen the development of this faculty within the new series, the lack of the Doctor's ability to understand French may be explained by the fact that he has, at this point, surrounded the chateau with a time zone barrier, thus isolating himself from the TARDIS and its influence. This does not account for the ease with which the rest of the multicultural resistance seem to understand each other, though. Alternately, it may have had something to do with the side-effects of the soldier's mental conditioning and a head injury.'' | *A man is shown speaking French in the Doctor's presence, yet no one seems able to understand him; what happened to the Doctor's gift of translation? If it isn't active for some reason, then why are the resistance members along with Jamie and Zoe able to understand the Mexicans and Russians? ''Although there was no way the writers could have foreseen the development of this faculty within the new series, the lack of the Doctor's ability to understand French may be explained by the fact that he has, at this point, surrounded the chateau with a time zone barrier, thus isolating himself from the TARDIS and its influence. This does not account for the ease with which the rest of the multicultural resistance seem to understand each other, though. Alternately, it may have had something to do with the side-effects of the soldier's mental conditioning and a head injury. It also does not take into account the apparent loss of the Doctor's ability to speak french (previously displayed in [[The Reign of Terror]]).'' | ||
*In Episode 10, the door of the TARDIS opens with the sound effect of a SIDRAT door (a stock Season 1 effect, also used for the Dalek city doors) instead of the usual TARDIS door sound effect. | *In Episode 10, the door of the TARDIS opens with the sound effect of a SIDRAT door (a stock Season 1 effect, also used for the Dalek city doors) instead of the usual TARDIS door sound effect. | ||
* The Doctor needed the help of The Time Lords to return everybody to their own time line; however, they all remained in personal jeopardy because they were all taken from actual war zones. | * The Doctor needed the help of The Time Lords to return everybody to their own time line; however, they all remained in personal jeopardy because they were all taken from actual war zones. | ||
