Time Flight nitpicks.

[Guy Gardener]

Just doing some random book keeping, saw the bluray in a mouse trap, so I popped the disk in the machine. Got through an episode and a half, before my bluetooth died.

1. "We dispersed the cyberfleet" They just destroyed an assault fleet? With explosives, a clever trick, or has the TARDIS always had weapons, that only Nyssa knew how to use?

2. Hovering over Heathrow, the Doctor's expression was not "Oh no! We're going to be hit by a an oncoming plane! It was "OH NO! Tegan is going to leave me too!" Which is completely out of character.

3. "We are a hundred and 40 million years in the past, definitely Jurassic, feel that nip in the air? That's the ice age." NO, well yes, but That's Adric crashing a freighter into the side of the planet probably just a few weeks ago. All it took the Doctor to get over Adric was 27 minutes. That's cold.

 

[matthunter]

Just doing some random book keeping, saw the bluray in a mouse trap, so I popped the disk in the machine. Got through an episode and a half, before my bluetooth died.

1. "We dispersed the cyberfleet" They just destroyed an assault fleet? With explosives, a clever trick, or has the TARDIS always had weapons, that only Nyssa knew how to use?

2. Hovering over Heathrow, the Doctor's expression was not "Oh no! We're going to be hit by a an oncoming plane! It was "OH NO! Tegan is going to leave me too!" Which is completely out of character.

3. "We are a hundred and 40 million years in the past, definitely Jurassic, feel that nip in the air? That's the ice age." NO, well yes, but That's Adric crashing a freighter into the side of the planet in probably just a few weeks ago. All it took the Doctor to get over Adric was 27 minutes. That's cold.

The actual line is "Cyberfleet dispersed". While Tegan's line about "ticking off boxes" could be read as implying the Doctor and Nyssa did that, it's more likely Nyssa's just reporting that the Cybes buggered off on their own - which is likely given their plan failed and they were now in hostile territory (Earth was already on high alert due to the conference). Or you could read it that the Doctor and co warned the relevant Earth defence forces as they were dropping the survivors off.

It's not terribly out of character if you choose to believe in the UST between the two. However, the Tales of the TARDIS specials suggest Tegan's either not into men (sadly, she didn't get much screen time with Thirteen) or is bi.

27 minutes to a Time Lord is quite a lot. Could fit a couple of quick baths in.

 

[Chakoteya]

The Doctor Who Transcripts - Time-Flight

You can always read the darned thing, you know.

Whilst remembering that the events of Earthshock have only just happened...

 

[matthunter]

The Doctor Who Transcripts - Time-Flight

You can always read the darned thing, you know.

Thanks. I did before posting "the actual line is".

I can only quote Red Dwarf eps verbatim.

 

[Chakoteya]

I was really talking to Guy... apologies.

 

[Qonundrum]

Just doing some random book keeping, saw the bluray in a mouse trap, so I popped the disk in the machine. Got through an episode and a half, before my bluetooth died.

1. "We dispersed the cyberfleet" They just destroyed an assault fleet? With explosives, a clever trick, or has the TARDIS always had weapons, that only Nyssa knew how to use?

Poor continuity to the previous story, Earthshock, where the Cybermen in the freighter were destroyed by crashing the ship into Earth. Eric Saward had only just gotten the script editor position, so there was no time to fix the discontinuity - in a story already a rewrite from a discarded Tom Baker story and was loaded with plot holes and time crunches to get done. Add in the Master and other issues and, ugh, it's impossible to put together cohesively. I don't recall if, in Earthshock, an entire fleet of ships was trailing the freighter, only that - somehow - all the new troops in the Cyber Army managed to quietly remove whatever grain, equipment, lab experiments, etc, were in the silos and with none of the crew noticing. (Will look that up...)

2. Hovering over Heathrow, the Doctor's expression was not "Oh no! We're going to be hit by a an oncoming plane! It was "OH NO! Tegan is going to leave me too!" Which is completely out of character.

Another attempt at "The Doctor is not human and won't react like humans", which doesn't land because even the Doctor would be concerned about his spaceship first and foremost as that impacted everyone inside it at the time. Puns not intended, but - yeah - it's the craziest form of foreshadowing.

3. "We are a hundred and 40 million years in the past, definitely Jurassic, feel that nip in the air? That's the ice age." NO, well yes, but That's Adric crashing a freighter into the side of the planet probably just a few weeks ago. All it took the Doctor to get over Adric was 27 minutes. That's cold.

In a rewritten script to address all these issues. I can handle the Doctor getting over it so fast. Nyssa and Tegan not as such, unless they utterly hated him. Nyssa isn't from Earth either and "we all act the same" is so incredibly lazy and corny. Ultimately, I'm not sure if the issue was due to scripting trying to show non-Earthlings or because of all the plotholes and continued rewrites, for which the Master generating the time contour from his burnt-out TARDIS needs the new power supply but he leaves the planet after getting it and oh the time contour is still there despite it no longer being generated and is still fully usable. The script is highly ambitious and I appreciate all three of Grimwade's tales for the creativity applied, but never mind the budget as the in-story goofs are far worse than "If only we sent £2 more then we could overlay Heathrow airport without the birdy flying through the frame in that bit from pt 4..."

 

[Guy Gardener]

Also, the lack of Silurians freaking out about the ice age was telling.

They ran away from the Moon, which may have already happened, and even if millions of them went into hibernation, there are billions more who would not have wanted to or not been allowed to go to sleep with the %1.

Did the Silurians know that there was a space Dragon in the moon?