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*The plot continues to contradict itself when it is revealed that the SRS's plan of using the nuclear codes to blackmail the world can be cancelled with a simple fail-safe. | *The plot continues to contradict itself when it is revealed that the SRS's plan of using the nuclear codes to blackmail the world can be cancelled with a simple fail-safe. | ||
::The 'simple' fail-safe would never have come into play had the plan gone accordingly. | |||
*The lynchpin of the plot makes no sense whatsoever. In an effort to defuse international tension, the superpowers would allow Britain (which was neutral in the Cold War) to publish the codes that would allow anyone in the world to launch their nuclear missiles? | *The lynchpin of the plot makes no sense whatsoever. In an effort to defuse international tension, the superpowers would allow Britain (which was neutral in the Cold War) to publish the codes that would allow anyone in the world to launch their nuclear missiles? | ||
::The threat of which would deter them from launching in the first place. It makes about as much sense as the Cold War did itself. | |||
*The elite UNIT soldiers not only let a slow-moving 3-metre tall silver robot escape from them, at various points during the firefight, they are shooting at each other. | *The elite UNIT soldiers not only let a slow-moving 3-metre tall silver robot escape from them, at various points during the firefight, they are shooting at each other. | ||
::Shooting at each other is just a camera angle thing, and the top speed of the robot is unknown. | |||
*The note the Doctor leaves on the TARDIS is very short when he posts it but much longer when Sarah reads it. | *The note the Doctor leaves on the TARDIS is very short when he posts it but much longer when Sarah reads it. | ||
