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*The Androids seem to be good shots early on - killing 3 people in a matter of seconds - but when they reach the Doctor they completely miss! | *The Androids seem to be good shots early on - killing 3 people in a matter of seconds - but when they reach the Doctor they completely miss! | ||
::During their initial assaualt the androids are not under fire themselves, but when they fire on the Doctor and the battle continues the androids are recieving fire from the remaining troopers Even though they are androids their accuracy will be diminished by having to evad incoming fire. Also, two words: character shield. | ::During their initial assaualt the androids are not under fire themselves, but when they fire on the Doctor and the battle continues the androids are recieving fire from the remaining troopers Even though they are androids their accuracy will be diminished by having to evad incoming fire. Also, two words: character shield. | ||
:::The last is almost canonial, at least for his 8th incarnation; in a few of the EDA novels, he recognizes that he gets very lucky far more often than he should; he's never able to figure out why, but he sometimes relies on it anyway. | |||
*No-one in the Earth crew expresses any surprise at the size of the TARDIS- nor do they question the Doctor as to where he came from and how he got such technology. | *No-one in the Earth crew expresses any surprise at the size of the TARDIS- nor do they question the Doctor as to where he came from and how he got such technology. | ||
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*The Cyber Leader says the sentence "Your technology is primitive next to ours, mistakes will not be made." in a distinctly sing-song type of voice. | *The Cyber Leader says the sentence "Your technology is primitive next to ours, mistakes will not be made." in a distinctly sing-song type of voice. | ||
*Why does the guy reading the scanner pick up only the Doctor as an alien? Nyssa is a Trakenite, is she not? | *Why does the guy reading the scanner pick up only the Doctor as an alien? Nyssa is a Trakenite, is she not? | ||
::Maybe Trakenites are so similar to humans that they can't be distinguished by the scanner's technology, but Gallifreyans are different enough that they can. After all, she doesn't have two hearts, a different internal temperature, or various other reasonably easy-to-detect differences that he does. | |||
*where did the Cybermen get copies of Doctor Who clips from? And why do they show one from Wheel in Space, when describing the events of Tomb of the Cybermen? | |||
::We've seen that the Cybermen obsessively monitor transmissions. And from ''Remembrance of the Daleks'', it seems like ''Doctor Who'' is an in-universe series. But they haven't watched ''Wheel'' or ''Tomb'' as many times as human fans, because they still have all the missing episodes. | |||
: | ::More seriously, in-universe they obviously weren't actually using clips of old episodes, that's just how it was represented on screen. Kind of like the fact that in-universe they were actually Cybermen rather than human actors in costumes. | ||
*Surely the Doctor could have used the TARDIS to materialise on the frieghter to save Adric? | |||
::As he says, though, the console is damaged a the key moment. | |||
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