From: ira2p@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Iain Robert Asplin)
Subject: Re: Continuity Catalog, feel free to add to it!
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 02:14:41 GMT

In article <1992Sep14.011752.8213@wam.umd.edu> mrmuon@next08csc.wam.umd.edu (Eli John Hawkins) writes:
>In article <1992Sep12.170139.28801@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>  
>ira2p@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Iain Robert Asplin) writes:
>> 
>> 
>> I'm game.  Let's begin, shall we?
>> 
>> 1.  "The Daleks" vs. "Genesis of the Daleks"  
>place. The rise and fall of the Dalek city doesn't disturb the ruins of  
>the bunker which is excavated in "Destiny". However I think the Nuetron  
>bomb referrence was actually referring to the missile that the Thals  
>launched (I've always had the impression T Dicks meant it this way  
>[retroactively]). As I recall most of what is said about the origin of the  
>Daleks in "the Daleks" is speculation on the part of the Doctor.

Nice idea but two flaws: the rocket the Thals launched was packed with
"dystronic" explosives, whatever they are, as opposed to a nuclear device
(or  perhaps it is a nuclear material, it certainly had enough radiation)
OK, forget it, this is OK.
The other little bit was the writer was Terry nation, not Terrance Dicks.
Just an oh-so-tiny-point-of-order.

>> 	either of the two subsequent destruction versions.
>I have the novel of this but have not yet read it, however I'll suggest  
>that this Atlantis is a different place than in "Time Monster" named  
>because of its situation after the Greek island.

	Possible.  Certainly possible.  Doesn't really matter much since
it doesnot't conflict in the first place.

>> 	slip.
>A question of Time Lord translation techniques: we hear the modern term,  
>Travers heard the equivalent contemporary term.

	Now why didn't I think of this?
	EXCELLENT idea.  
>along
>> 	by the hypnotic effects of the Cyber-signal.
>"You humans have an amazing capacity for self deception" (or something  
>like that)

	Score!

>> 	by now since surface conditions are not very good.
>Mars is a large planet, the probe didn't land where the Ice warriors live  
>(the polar caps I would assume).


	Certainly possible.  Perhaps I should have added in the original
post, "Why didn't the radiation aliens know about the Warriors?  Or did
they know and just not tell us?"

>> 5.      "The Brain of Morbius"
>> 	Problem: in the mind-bending contest, it looks as though the
>> 	Doctor has had incarnations earlier than the Hartnell one.
>> 	Solution: these could have been faces of Morbius, hallucinations  
>..                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Morbius is the one who then busts a fuse.

	True.  
	How about this?  Perhaps the faces are people the Doctor met
in his past?  That would fit with the "how long have you lived?" line.


>> 	President is supposed to search for. 
>That was the great "Key of Rassilon" not the "Great Key"


	No, it wasn't the Key of Rassilon, it was indeed the Great Key.
	(I just saw this recently too to reverify this.)

>>                                            The Great Key is entrustd
>> 	to the Chancellor, creating another problem when the Doctor
>> 	says in the same story that no President has ever known the
>> 	whereabouts of the Great Key (after he's been in th Matrix and
>> 	asked them all, he says he's done this), yet if it is in the
>> 	care of the Chancellor, then surely at some time a Chancellor
>> 	must have become President and he would know that the new 
>> 	Chancellor has got the Key!  
>Maybe Time Lord Law specifies that no chancelor shall become president  
>(one TL shouldn't hold both of the two most powerfull positions), of  
>course Borusa found a way around this.

	Then how could Goth have expected to ever become President in
The Deadly Assassin?

>>                                     (Goth would have known this for
>> 	example in Deadly Assassin had his plan to become President
>> 	succeeded.  It must have happened this way before since Chancellor
>> 	is such a senior position.)
>Goth wasn't nearly as educated as Borusa, he might not have known just how  
>important the key was.

	Perhaps he didn't know, butit's still in the presidential vow
to seek the Great Key.

>> 	Also suggestions are made in The Deadly Assassin that there are
>> 	other Cities on Gallifrey than just the Capitol, yet in
>> 	The Invasion of Time we are told everyone lives in the  
>Citadel/Capitol,
>> 	and that everyone lives indoors, which is at variance with things
>> 	the Third Doctor told us about his visits to the old hermit behind
>> 	his house when he was a boy, and would later tell us about theem
>> 	again as being in the mountains of South Gallifrey in State of
>> 	Decay.  
>Maybe things have changed since the Doctor was young.

	"One of my pupils from Prydon Academy," says Borusa of Runcible
in The Deadly Assassin.  This would suggest to me that Prydon is the
name of a city somewhere on the planet.
	And if living indoors was only a recent development, then why
are the "outside dwellers" treated with such surprise?
In the Invasion of Time.

>> 	The TARDIS got explained away in Logopolis thanks to the  
>Architectural
>> 	Configuration System, but even that doesn't excuse the sheer
>> 	tackiness of the interior in the Invasion of Time.
>> 	For all these reasons, Invasion of Time is near the bottom of
>> 	 my "favorites" list.
>I didn't think it was tacky, and "tIoT" was one of my favorites.

	A spaceship with whitewashed brick walls inside?  A spaceship
with a section which is clearly just a freight unloading point in a
standard 20th century building?  (It was filmed in a hospital BTW)
(I refer to the deja vu bits).
The only good bit of the interior was the swimming pool.  That was cool.


>> 13.  	"Terminus"
>> 	Problem:  Exploding spaceship creates the Universe, but in
>> 	Castrovalva it is described as a hydrogen inrush.
>> 	Solution: In Castrovalva the TARDIS was approaching the inrush
>> 	from the direction opposite the explosion, and thus never saw
>> 	the ship. 
>Although the Hydrogen Inrush in "Castrovalva" was called event one, I'm  
>pretty sure that they specifically said it was a galactic creation. 

Yes, Nyssa does refer to it as the creation of the galaxy at one point,
which seems to contradict many of the other lines in the story.
This line occurs near the end of part one, at a crisis cliffhanger moment,
and I would suspect this is the area most likely to get changed by a 
Script Editor, so perhaps Bidmead's original words got changed by the
editor or perhaps were just said wrong by Sarah Sutton and no one noticed
on the set?


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