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Most notably, there isn't a single event in that show that ends up having a paranormal explanation.
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The Shakespeare Code. There's some slippertalk about the witches using some kind of technology, but most people recognise it for what it is.
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The fans (apparently) have to be where they are. The catwalk, I would assume, is there to service the fans. If the catwalk goes elsewhere, the fans wouldn't be reachable by the staff.
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The catwalk does not allow access to the motors - only the tips of the fan blades. They are high enough above the catwalk that the Doctor could have slithered along on his belly to get past them, or hung from the edge of the catwalk. Or at least considered these things before he suddenly used a hitherto-unmentioned ability to magically get around them.
[Snip the rest.] I do feel you are so eager to like it that you are trying to find depths and rationales that simply aren't there. I don't believe the production team put as much thought into it as you would claim is evident.
It was the same with the Sycarox ship and the button next to the door (the one the Doctor threw a tangerine at). Despite being right next to the door, it actually opened a panel in the floor some distance away, which just happened to allow the Doctor to kill the baddy.
Now you might come up with some sort of explanation for why that panel needed to be opened, and why the switch should be in such an illogical place, but in
narrative terms it was as nonsensical as it was unforgivably convenient.
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Rose mentioned in this last episode that the technology that allows them to teleport across parallel universes also allows them to track timelines. It stands to reason: Pete knew Rose was in danger the same way he knew that the Cybers and Daleks would end up in our London in the first place.
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It's no good coming up with some handwavy explanation two years later. There was no indication that any of the world-crossers could see in advance what they'd encounter when they crossed timelines.
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I'm drawing a complete blank on which episode this is.
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New Earth. The one that also had that "mix all the drugs up and they'll cure everyone" thing.
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It was addressed in the episode. Smiley rode the Titanic down a) To fake his own death, as his insurance company would have been able to learn he'd boarded during the investigation, and b) because the Doctor recognized the chamber he'd been hiding in, one designed specifically to survive that sort of crash.
I would assume it would also have been necessary for him to give the final attack order to the angel-bots, in case he had to abort the mission for whatever reason.
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Well maybe it was addressed but it didn't convince.
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Because otherwise, she would have had to start completely over. As far as she could tell, the Doctor left and would not return in time to matter. Nobody else on Earth knew who she really was,
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What, not even the Prime Minister?
And anyway, this was the least of Boom Town's faults.
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I do have one question, though: when exactly did Jack meet Mickey?
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In an untold adventure prior to Boom Town, or else in Boom Town itself. It was implied that there were a fair few untelevised adventures, and at least one contemporary spin-off book is referenced in the TV series.