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*The Empress says the Roboforms are 'such very good shots' but after the TARDIS materializes, they miss it by a considerable amount.
::The TARDIS has a shield which protects travellers from bullets etc when outside of it. Given that the TARDIS was only partially materialized, it is likely that it considered the Doctor outside the TARDIS so put the shields up.


*The Empress says the Roboforms are 'such very good shots' but after the TARDIS materializes, they miss it by a considerable amount.
::The TARDIS has defences of unknown type, which could certainly handle deflecting the bullets. The Roboforms have also been seen to miss their shot before, meaning the Empress may have overstated the quality of their marksmanship.
:::Well, the TARDIS has been shown ''not'' to defend against Dalek guns (''[[Victory of the Daleks]]''),  bullets ([[Doctor Who (1996)|''Doctor Who'']]), arrows (''[[The Shakespeare Code]]''), or even graffiti artists (''[[Aliens of London]]''). There has rarely been any kind of special protective field exhibited by the TARDIS, except when specifically "switched on", as during ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]''.  Thus, there is actually no good reason for the Roboform's targeting ineptitude here.
::::None of those weapons penetrated the TARDIS at those times. As for the defences, we know it has them, we just don't really have any clue what they are, if they work properly (very few systems in the TARDIS *do* seem to work consistently), or when they have been switched on/off.
*It takes an amazingly short amount of time for the waters of the Thames to journey to the centre of the earth and drown the children of Racnoss. And why doesn't the heat of the Earth's mantle evaporate it?
*It takes an amazingly short amount of time for the waters of the Thames to journey to the centre of the earth and drown the children of Racnoss. And why doesn't the heat of the Earth's mantle evaporate it?
::The Racnoss children aren't at the centre, they already began their ascent.
::The Racnoss children aren't at the centre, they already began their ascent.
::The tunnel also probably had some sort of cooling property, since the Racnoss would also have died due to the heat.


*The Doctor says the TARDIS could take a couple of hours to heal itself, but the Doctor and Donna come back inside after their conversation which was nothing close to an hour.
*The Doctor says the TARDIS could take a couple of hours to heal itself, but the Doctor and Donna come back inside after their conversation which was nothing close to an hour.
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*The Queen of the Racnoss is supposed to lay eggs which produce new Racnoss, so why doesn't she just lay some new eggs? She also doesn't seem to have any from the time before the Racnoss were destroyed.
*The Queen of the Racnoss is supposed to lay eggs which produce new Racnoss, so why doesn't she just lay some new eggs? She also doesn't seem to have any from the time before the Racnoss were destroyed.
::Wouldn't she need a male of her species to do that? 
::She would need a male Racnoss to do that.


*Sylvia says her phone has run out of battery however later on she was able to see Donna's message she left her.
*Sylvia says her phone has run out of battery however later on she was able to see Donna's message she left her.
::Many phones can remain on (or be turned back on) with very low battery, but can't make or receive calls in that state. A phone call takes about 5 times as much power as running without a connection even on a high-powered smartphone, and it can be as much as 500 times as much on simpler phones.
::Many phones can remain on, or be turned back on, with very low battery, but can't make or receive calls in that state. A phone call takes about 5 times as much power as running without a connection even on a high-powered smartphone, and it can be as much as 500 times as much on simpler phones.
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