Lords of the Red Planet (audio story): Difference between revisions

* The Doctor mentions that he prefers not to partake in alien rituals, in this case the one for the [[life drink]] provided for the people of [[Gandor]]. The Doctor would later relax his stance on this, as in [[The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)|''The Rings of Akhaten'']] he takes [[Clara]] to participate in the [[Festival of Offerings]], although the Doctor mentions that he used to come with his granddaughter [[Susan]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)|The Rings of Akhaten]]'')

* While the exact time this story takes place in is unknown, it is hinted that it is the early time just after the formation of earth's [[Solar System|solar system]]. Depending on when that is, it could possibly create contradictions. The earliest known invasion of the Ice Warriors on earth after this time occurs in the late 20th century ([[TV]]: ''[[Cold War (TV story)|Cold War]]'') and late 21st Century ([[TV]]: ''[[The Seeds of Death (TV story)|The Seeds of Death]]''), although it is claimed the Ice Warriors crashed on the planet and had been frozen for thousands of years ([[TV]]: ''[[Cold War (TV story)|Cold War]]'', [[The Ice Warriors (TV story)|''The Ice Warriors'']]). Yet when Jamie asks the Doctor about the Ice Warriors at the present time of their journey into Gandor, the Doctor claims that the time is still far too early for the Ice Warriors to exist. In the TV story'' [[Empress of Mars (TV story)|Empress of Mars]]'', the Ice Warriors and [[Iraxxa|Queen Iraxa]] are claimed to have been in hibernation for nearly 5000 years and said story takes place in the 19th century. This suggests that either there was a separate breed of Ice Warriors lurking elsewhere on Mars unbeknownst to the Gandorans and Quendril or that the history of the Ice Warriors was abruptly changed between the time of the [[Second Doctor]]'s and the [[Twelfth Doctor|Twelfth Doctor's]] encounter with them due to the non-linear, ever-changing nature of time as the Doctor often explains. However, the former is certainly possible because as the Doctor and Zoe remark at the end of the story, it seems the Saurians are always destined to evolve into the Ice Warriors, whether the process is sped up by forced evolution as in this story or natural evolution is allowed to take its course over the next several centuries or eons. It is also possible that some of the Ice Warriors survived the explosion on the rocket and somehow ended up on earth during the [[Ice Age]], which explains why they were found frozen in the first place.