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* Given that around 20 people [[AdamAndEvePlot wouldn't be enough for genetic diversity]], it's possible that's another reason why the colonists need new bodies.
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***The fastest part of the colony ship could still be painfully slow compared to the rest of the universe (we don't actually know the the radius of the black hole itself, but it could easily be more than 400 miles). Millennia could have gone by during the course of this episode.
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** On a related note, Razor snarks about how "the months will fly by" while the Doctor on-screen is giving an explanation. In RealLife, audiences will be ''wishing'' the months would fly by as they await the 2017 Christmas Special, which will hopefully explain what's up with Twelve's imminent regeneration.
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** Remember that it's the ''lower'' levels that are in synch with the rest of the universe, not the upper ones. (The ship's engines are in reverse, the bridge pointed towards the black hole that's causing the TimeDilation, not vice versa.) Possibly the repair-crew realized the time difference was so extreme that staying on the bridge would likely mean out-living the rest of their native civilization beyond the ship, so they ''chose'' to stay there and hope some Mondasian rescue ship would track them down rather than return to existence in SloMo.
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** There may not have been enough room on the lifts for everyone to go at once, so anyone left behind would be waiting months for the lifts to return, perhaps years if multiple trips were needed. It would be all too easy for someone to fall in love and get pregnant in that time, and then not want to risk there being any ill effects on an infant to go back up through the time dilation. The brand new shiny city would be awfully tempting to stay in after living in crew quarters, quarters which also likely had no place for babies or children. They may have used keeping an eye on the engines and making sure they kept functoning as a reason/excuse to stay, too, since a failure would lead to the entire ship dropping into the black hole!
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** Or maybe the threat on level 507 is ''real'', and the elevators barely made it past that level the first time through. Rather than risk passing through that level again, the original group stayed put, and their descendants verified that the danger existed every dozen generations or so.
** Or maybe the threat on level 507 is ''real'', and the elevators barely made it past that level the first time through. Rather than risk passing through that level again, the original group stayed put, and their descendants verified that the danger existed every dozen generations or so.
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* The Doctor pulls the end off his sonic screwdriver, revealing it's also a marker-pen. Not only are there RealLife [[TheMerch marker-pens that look like a sonic screwdriver]], but in-Verse, the point of separation appears to be the ''same'' point at which the sonic's tip got bent out of line when a Suit grabbed and crushed it in ''Oxygen''. So Twelve may have installed the pen-tip when he repaired it from being squeezed.
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* The Doctor pulls the end off his sonic screwdriver, revealing it's also a marker-pen. Not only are there RealLife [[TheMerch marker-pens that look like sonic screwdriver]], but in-Verse, the point of separation appears to be the ''same'' point at which the sonic's tip got bent out of line when a Suit grabbed and crushed it in ''Oxygen''. So Twelve may have installed the pen-tip when he repaired it from being squeezed.
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* The Doctor pulls the end off his sonic screwdriver, revealing it's also a marker-pen. Not only are there RealLife [[TheMerch marker-pens that look like sonic screwdriver]], but in-Verse, the point of separation appears to be the ''same'' point at which the sonic's tip got bent out of line when a Suit grabbed and crushed it in ''Oxygen''. So Twelve may have installed the pen-tip when he repaired it from being squeezed.
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* Somewhere between Brilliance and Horror: Little wonder Missy's first outing involved building a Cyberman army and specifically targeted [[spoiler: some of the Doctor's friends, such as the Brigadier]]. Looks like s/he had ''plenty'' of practice and had thoroughly tested that strategy. If anyone and anything could drag the Doctor down to his/her level, it would be The Master hitting his/her old frenemy at their weak spot - the humans they travel with.
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** There may not have been enough room on the lifts for everyone to go at once, so anyone left behind would be waiting months for the lifts to return, perhaps years if multiple trips were needed. It would be all too easy for someone to fall in love and get pregnant in that time, and then not want to risk there being any ill effects on an infant to go back up through the time dilation. The brand new shiny city would be awfully tempting to stay in after living in crew quarters, quarters which also likely had no place for babies or children. They may have used keeping an eye on the engines and making sure they kept functoning as a reason/excuse to stay, too, since a failure would lead to the entire ship dropping into the black hole!
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** The Master probably manipulated them into staying put, making up lies about "threats" elsewhere on the ship to stop them from trying to get back to the bridge. As for the patients who go to the bridge, those lifts can only be accessed from the hospital, which the Master is secretly controlling. As far as they knew, they were trapped with no hope of rescue or escape.
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* The Master's plan involves convincing desperate, frustrated humans living in horrible condition with no hope of outside help to essentially cannibalize themselves into a horrific man-machine abominations while removing their humanity. Of course it does, it's exactly what he already witnessed with the Toclafane!
* In one of many examples of ProductionThrowback in this story, Bill and Razor!Master are watching the events unfold on a low-resolution black-and-white TV screen. Not only is this how the original ''Doctor Who'' episodes look, the still imagery looks like the telesnap reconstruction on the MissingEpisode!
* In one of many examples of ProductionThrowback in this story, Bill and Razor!Master are watching the events unfold on a low-resolution black-and-white TV screen. Not only is this how the original ''Doctor Who'' episodes look, the still imagery looks like the telesnap reconstruction on the MissingEpisode!
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* Why did the crew on the lower level felt the need to start families and reproduce in the first place? Once they eventually figured out the TimeDilation in place, they still had access to the lifts leading all the way to the top of the ship. So even though they may have already spend weeks/months down there, returning back to the rest of their crew was still an option.
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** To add to the Doctor's guilt, remember all the times this could've been prevented: If Yana never opened the fob watch. If Saxon hadn't been shot by Lucy. If Ten had shot Saxon to break the link with Gallifrey. If Twelve had killed Missy at the end of "Death in Heaven." If he had allowed Missy to be executed in "Extremis." [[ForWantOfANail Any of those scenarios]], and the TARDIS crew never travels to that ship to test Missy, and Bill is alive and human. ''And that's just in the revival series.''
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* The Master(s) said that they didn't like the name "Project Exodus" because they preferred to think of it as [[MythologyGag "Genesis of the Cyberman"]] however it's been strongly implied that [[ArcWelding the Mondasians became Cybermen to fight the Pete's World Cyberman]] which would mean through TimeyWimeyBall they were the start of the species this would make [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E5RiseOfTheCybermen Rise Of The Cybermen]] the real "Genesis of the Cyberman" and this the next chapter in the species history. [[MeaningfulName Project Exodus.]]
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** Once again, a soldier with an itchy trigger finger is the UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom. The Doctor and company are all safe and sound until the LeeroyJenkins shows up. Just think on that for a moment- the Doctor despises soldiers so because they are the most unreasonable and irrational characters he runs into. He tries to talk them down, but their sense of duty and fear drives them to a state of panic, and then they blow. They bust out their guns and start shooting. Everything goes to pot. And just like that, they've kick-started the DisasterDominoes. Every. Single. Time.
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** Once again, a soldier with an itchy trigger finger is the UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom. The Doctor and company are all safe and sound until the LeeroyJenkins shows up. Just think on that for a moment- the Doctor despises soldiers so because they are the most unreasonable and irrational characters he runs into. He tries to talk them down, but their sense of duty and fear drives them to a state of panic, and then they blow. They bust out their guns and start shooting. Everything goes to pot. And just like that, they've kick-started the DisasterDominoes. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Every. Single. Time.]]
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** Once again, a soldier with an itchy trigger finger is the UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom. The Doctor and company are all safe and sound until the LeeroyJenkins shows up. Just think on that for a moment- the Doctor despises soldiers so because they are the most unreasonable and irrational characters he runs into. He tries to talk them down, but their sense of duty and fear drives them to a state of panic, and then they blow. They bust out their guns and start shooting. Everything goes to pot. And just like that, they've become the ones who kick-started the DisasterDominoes. Every. Single. Time.
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** Once again, a soldier with an itchy trigger finger is the UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom. The Doctor and company are all safe and sound until the LeeroyJenkins shows up. Just think on that for a moment- the Doctor despises soldiers so because they are the most unreasonable and irrational characters he runs into. He tries to talk them down, but their sense of duty and fear drives them to a state of panic, and then they blow. They bust out their guns and start shooting. ShitHitsTheFan. And just like that, they've become the ones who kick-started the DisasterDominoes. Every. Single. Time.
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* Bill Potts is ''the very first true Mondasian Cyberman in existence.'' Or Cyber''woman'', if you want to get technical here.
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* Bill Potts is ''the very first true Mondasian Cyberman in existence.'' Or Cyber''woman'', if you want to get technical here. To repeat, one of the Doctor's '''own companions''' is the literal genesis of one of his most dangerous enemies. And it wasn't even her fault. It was all because he offered to give one of his other greatest enemies a second chance, and somebody with an itchy trigger finger blew it all to Hell. There is no worse way to [[KickTheDog kick him in the teeth]] than that.
** Once again, a soldier with an itchy trigger finger is the UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom. The Doctor and company are all safe and sound until the LeeroyJenkins shows up. Just think on that for a moment- the Doctor despises soldiers so because they are the most unreasonable and irrational characters he runs into. He tries to talk them down, but their sense of duty and fear drives them to a state of panic, and then they blow. They bust out their guns and start shooting. ShitHitsTheFan. And just like that, they've become the ones who kick-started the DisasterDominoes. Every. Single. Time.
** Once again, a soldier with an itchy trigger finger is the UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom. The Doctor and company are all safe and sound until the LeeroyJenkins shows up. Just think on that for a moment- the Doctor despises soldiers so because they are the most unreasonable and irrational characters he runs into. He tries to talk them down, but their sense of duty and fear drives them to a state of panic, and then they blow. They bust out their guns and start shooting. ShitHitsTheFan. And just like that, they've become the ones who kick-started the DisasterDominoes. Every. Single. Time.
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** It seems it's also due to the fact that the artificial heart is not strong enough on its own to work outside the hospital's atmosphere, which gives it a boost. And the only way to circumvent this is by undergoing full cyber-conversion. So, either you live stuck in the hospital for the rest of your days, leave it and let nature take its course, or give up your humanity to escape. No wonder one of the partially converted Mondasians was suicidal.
* The Master played Bill in the cruelest manner possible- a very low-key and absolutely '''''twisted''''' form of StockholmSyndrome. She was the captive and he was her captor, only she didn't even know he was imprisoning her all along. He pretended to be a likable fellow who was slightly oafish, making him very unthreatening. He then spent time bonding with Bill over many years in order to further build trust. Then he suddenly carted her off to endure the full cyber-conversion and cruelly tore off his disguise after she had already lost her free will just to twist the knife even further.
* Bill Potts is ''the very first true Mondasian Cyberman in existence.'' Or Cyber''woman'', if you want to get technical here.
* The Master played Bill in the cruelest manner possible- a very low-key and absolutely '''''twisted''''' form of StockholmSyndrome. She was the captive and he was her captor, only she didn't even know he was imprisoning her all along. He pretended to be a likable fellow who was slightly oafish, making him very unthreatening. He then spent time bonding with Bill over many years in order to further build trust. Then he suddenly carted her off to endure the full cyber-conversion and cruelly tore off his disguise after she had already lost her free will just to twist the knife even further.
* Bill Potts is ''the very first true Mondasian Cyberman in existence.'' Or Cyber''woman'', if you want to get technical here.
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** Remember that, from Missy's perspective, she was only on the ship for a few minutes before they headed down to the bottom level. Plus, we don't know if the Saxon-Master had ''ever'' gone up to the top: even a short foray to the bridge, after all, would entail leaving the 1056th level unattended for ''years'', during which the locals might mess up whatever plans he's set in motion. Even if she remembers that her former self had been involved with the Mondasian Cybermen's origins, she wouldn't necessarily catch on that she's on ''that'' ship right away.
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* Given that Time Lords forget anything that happens when they are in the vicinity of a later regeneration of themselves, the TimeDilation means that the Master won't remember ''years'' of his time on the ship, from the moment Missy stepped out of the TARDIS at the top of the ship. If he happened to arrive at the bottom of the ship after or at the same time as Missy's arrival at the top, that explains why she doesn't remember being on the ship before at all, and still gives the Master plenty of time to start up Project Exodus while Missy is playing Doctor and Jorj is pointing his gun at Bill.
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** Time Lords always forget about team ups with other incarnations of themselves, unless they're the oldest (latest) incarnation. So because Missy is there, Saxon will forget as soon as it's over, which is why she doesn't remember it from his perspective.
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* Bill and Nardole's qualms with the Doctor's plans to test Missy are more than understandable, especially given how things work out, but there was probably no way that Missy's capacity for goodness could properly be tested without a great deal of risk. He might have tried taking her on as an equal for a day on his own (neither could stand being "lesser" to the other), but that wouldn't have done much to prove her goodness because no matter how sincere she is, her behavior would be affected by his physical presence. By actually putting her in his place, he has the best idea of how much she is actually capable of being him, and a better idea of what this says about both of them.
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** Saxon probably knows who Missy is thanks to Bill telling him what she knows in the time they spent together and likely putting two and two together. Missy not remembering is a driving question, but she clearly wasn't paying much attention to Saxon until he was about to pull off his (very convincing) disguise.
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* With the reveal that the colony ship is Mondasian, it begs the question of ''why'' Mondas needed a colony ship in the first place. Answer? Mondas was ''dying'' at this point, and transferring any surviving Mondasians to the ship would be the only way to prevent them from going extinct. Also, the origins of the Mondasian Cyberman: they evolved because they were dying from poisonous gases in a colony ship, and they were in constant pain due to it.
* Bill's near death experience, when one considers the enormous hole in her chest from the gunshot, and the machinery implanted in her to keep her alive. Only someone has made it so that she cannot leave the hospital without the device shutting down. Someone in the hospital is able to control whether you live or die by remote, and there is nothing you can do about it.
* Bill's near death experience, when one considers the enormous hole in her chest from the gunshot, and the machinery implanted in her to keep her alive. Only someone has made it so that she cannot leave the hospital without the device shutting down. Someone in the hospital is able to control whether you live or die by remote, and there is nothing you can do about it.
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* The Doctor asks Bill and Nardole to act as Missy's companions while she's trying her hand at being the Doctor. After Bill gets separated from them, she is taken to a hospital and strikes up a friendship with Razor, who is later revealed to be Missy's previous incarnation.
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* The Doctor asks Bill and Nardole to act as Missy's companions while she's trying her hand at being the Doctor. After Bill gets separated from them, she is taken to a hospital and strikes up a friendship with Razor, who is later revealed to be Missy's previous incarnation.
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