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[edit] 2005 comments

Should I do a detailed episode by episode guide (including spoilers) which will make this stub into an artical? Benjamin

Please do, this is an encyclopaedia anyone can edit :) --TimPope 22:40, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Yeah I'll do the episode synopsis after I've watched the episodes through in detail again. Tenchi Muyo 14:47, 10 December 2005 (UTC)Tenchi Muyo

I've started to construct the erpisode guide. I will watch and analyse Earthshock episode 2 tonight and type it tommorow. Enjoy! 80.6.151.193 12:16, 15 December 2005 (UTC)Tenchi Muyo


[edit] Summary

I don't want to pour cold water on Tenchi Muyo's obvious hard work here, but the summary doesn't sound very encyclopedic, nor is it in line with the style and tone of the other articles... --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 13:52, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

How should I improve the way I deliever it? Was it too opinionated? 80.6.151.193 15:40, 15 December 2005 (UTC)Tenchi Muyo

Yeah, basically. Keep your opinions and analysis out of it, just stick to the facts, and keep it concise to what is directly relevant to the plot. You can read some of the other summaries, like Inferno (Doctor Who), Logopolis, Mindwarp or Pyramids of Mars to get a feel of what I'm talking about. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 15:44, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Alright I'll have a go. So no quotes just solid facts. Tenchi Muyo 16:02, 15 December 2005 (UTC)Tenchi Muyo

If you read the two extra paragraphs added on the end of the summery and could make them better please do. Tenchi Muyo 10:55, 21 December 2005 (UTC)Tenchi Muyo

Could someone just check the order I've placed the events in and also just check my spelling becuase I'm not a number one at spelling! Cheers Tenchi Muyo 13:00, 21 December 2005 (UTC)Tenchi Muyo

[edit] Gender

I assume cybermen are 'its' because in Spare Parts the cybermen cyberise women as well as men. Tenchi Muyo 13:00, 21 December 2005 (UTC)Tenchi Muyo

[edit] "Last time the end credits were rolled"

Does the TV movie count? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.32.48.236 (talk) 19:32, 12 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] The Gold Medal

Was Adric's medal gold or gold-plated as suggested in this article? I haven't seen this episode in a very, very long time, but I remember how odd it looked when the Doctor used the badge against the Cyberman. It looked almost as if the Doctor was grating cheese rather than something metallic into the robot's chest.

The edge was gold (this is specifically addressed in part 3). The two faces were some sort of blue metal, although around the outside was gold.

[edit] Bomb

Was there any significance to the bomb being placed in a mine that was 65 million years old and the freighter hitting the Earth at that time? I figured that it was something to do with each other, like it was left over from the ship crash, but after re watching it it just seems like the whole point of there being a mine shaft anyways is just so the writer could work in a reference to the dinosaurs' death. Kuralyov 01:17, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

It would not have had a lot of impact if the dinosaurs were mentioned for the first time at the end of the episode. The mine wasn't that old, but it had dinosaur skeletons in it, and a reference was made to when they had died out. Format (talk) 22:40, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Three stories featured?

Should we have details of the three serials referred to by the Cybermen? StuartDD contributions 15:33, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CONTINUITY: Scott / Which is it, then?

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The fate of Lt. Scott, Captain Briggs and the other survivors of the frigate is never revealed. Although they abandon the frigate via an escape pod before its destruction, they would have been adrift in space millions of years in the past. Scott is last heard advising the Doctor via radio that Adric is still onboard the frigate before the episode's tragic climax. Presumably the Doctor picked them up and returned them to their proper place in time, but there is no reference to Scott or the others in the follow up episode, TimeFlight nor subsequent episodes. - [Note] This is incorrect as the beginning of TimeFlight shows Nyssa running off a checklist which includes sending the escape pod survivors home, at which point Tegan expresses her fustration in the cold manner Nyssa and the Doctor are handling Adric's death.

Since the article seems to be having an argument with itself, let's leave it in talk until it can be verified. Format (talk) 22:37, 14 March 2008 (UTC)