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17th Jan 2007, 10:42 AM #1
TV Series Contradictions
I've just been listening to The Daleks' Master Plan, and felt educated to learn that Terranium is the 'rarest mineral in the Universe'. So, is it? Or is it Spectrox, from those muddy caves in Androzani? Or is there another episode telling us something completely different?
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“If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.” - Gutle Schnaper Rothschild
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17th Jan 2007, 10:45 AM #2
The Doctor knows what "framed" means in Deadly Assassin when he explains it to Spandrell, but by Two Doctors he needs to have Peri explain it to him.
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17th Jan 2007, 11:28 AM #3Pip Madeley Guest
Famous one, I'm surprised Logo didn't mention it - in 'The Mind Robber' Zoe knows what candles are and recognises them straightaway, yet by 'The Space Pirates' she has to ask if they're candles, and how they work.
Duh!
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17th Jan 2007, 11:40 AM #4
Good ones! Maybe Zoe had her memory wiped in Season 6b2?
“If my sons did not want wars, there would be none.” - Gutle Schnaper Rothschild
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17th Jan 2007, 11:42 AM #5
I've known some use that to argue that The Mind Robber is all just a dream (at least from Ep 2 onwards).
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17th Jan 2007, 11:50 AM #6Pip Madeley Guest
Here's another goodie - in 'The Stones of Blood', the Doctor tells Romana that it wasn't the President who sent her on the mission. Yet she's unaware of this in 'The Armageddon Factor'.
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17th Jan 2007, 12:30 PM #7
It's possible Spectrox was synthesized, and no-one had invented it at the time of "Masterplan" (or visa versa, if MP came later).
I always find the Doctors claim in the early Pertwee years that he "isn't fond of computers" to be bizarre. Because he isn't a fan of gadgets at all, is he? And isn't the TARDIS console equipped with a navigation computer?
Si.
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17th Jan 2007, 2:11 PM #8
True, but then he does also say that computers are tools and it would be silly not to use a tool at your disposal (or words to that effect). Maybe you have to have a navigational computer in order to pilot the TARDIS (it sounds like the kind of thing that one would need)!!!
Fair point about the gadgets though.
Mind you Pertwee was a gadgets fan so maybe his influence hadn't really come through at the time they made Inferno (which is where I think the "I don't like computers comment" comes from)?Last edited by Ian Lethbridge-Stewart; 17th Jan 2007 at 2:12 PM. Reason: Correction
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17th Jan 2007, 5:50 PM #9
Pyramids of Mars - The Doctor tells Sutech, that the controlls of the TARDIS only answer to him but by season 19 it seemed that any Tom, Dick and Harry could use them.
the Pertwee UNIT era is supposed to be set in the 1980's yet in Mudren Undead the Brigadier had left the army in 1977..Last edited by Larry; 17th Jan 2007 at 5:53 PM.
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17th Jan 2007, 9:24 PM #10Pip Madeley Guestthe Pertwee UNIT era is supposed to be set in the 1980's yet in Mudren Undead the Brigadier had left the army in 1977..
(why didn't Jo want Mike, for example?)
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17th Jan 2007, 10:02 PM #11Captain Tancredi Guest
Different things could be the rarest mineral at different times, of course- if the taranium on Uranus was mined out, or the aftermath of 'Caves' saw spectrox banned entirely and the existing stocks destroyed (or alternatively, mass-produced so that it no longer had the rarity).
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18th Jan 2007, 9:36 AM #12
Spectrox is not a mineral, though. A mineral is a (usually inorganic) substance that is generated by geological or other non-plant or -animal processes. Taranium fits that description, whereas Spectrox is refined from bats' nests.
And as for the claim that the TARDIS controls are isomorphic, the Doctor seems to have quite good reasons for lying at this point. Other people have been operating TARDIS controls since season 1.
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18th Jan 2007, 3:04 PM #13
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Quite apart from Time Lords being immortal barring accidents and then being limited to 12 regenerations, the Master ends up just surviving a thirteenth attempt, even if it leaves him looking as he did in the Deadly Assassin.
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18th Jan 2007, 3:34 PM #14why didn't Jo want Mike, for example?
Si.
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