History Headscratchers / DoctorWho2022Specials

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* Why is the Master posing as Rasputin? Is it just to get the palace as the base of his operations? And why is he in 1916 of all times?
** In the [[https://www.bbc.co.uk/writers/scripts/tv-drama/doctor-who BBC script]], there are some deleted scenes indicating that the Master caused the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event Tunguska event]] while he was creating and/or testing out the Cyber planet and that he spent eight years fixing it after that. So from the authors' point of view, he has to be in Russia in the early 1900s because that's where and when the Tunguska event happened. From his point of view, he was probably looking for a time and place where the Doctor wouldn't find him while he was working. Siberia has very few people, the early twentieth century doesn't have a lot of global surveillance, and he was probably planning to either leave before WWI or thought it would make a good distraction.
* Ace had her jacket placed in the secret floor compartment with weapons, right where she'd need it? Why?
* How did Tegan survive the fall?
* Why did the Master clone Ashad rather than just have a normal cyber leader? It seems like it was just done for the trailer.
** Probably because Cyberleaders are boring. Ashad, in contrast, has enough of a personality for the Master to get a kick out of being his abusive boss.
* The Master's TCE/teleport was in the cell with him the whole time? Why was it there rather than with Ashad to give it to him and how was it put there?
* Why should anyone believe that some random man doing bad things is the Doctor? They are well known for doing good deeds and anyone seeing the footage is going to doubt it. The Master gives them to believe that he is anything more than someone out to tarnish the Doctor's name--which he is!
* What is the difference between the Master regenerating into the Doctor's body and the Master cosplaying as the Doctor? He goes to such a lot of effort to achieve the same effect as simply dressing up as her.
** Addressing both this question and the last, perhaps the Master was hoping to get a DNA test (or other high-tech identifying methods) verifying that he was, in fact, the Doctor?
** The Doctor is the Timeless Child and has theoretically infinite regenerations. The Master has put a lot of time, pain, and effort into staying alive despite his Timelord-standard regeneration cap. Stealing the infinitely regenerating body is absolutely a thing the Classic Series Master would do. (This does bring with it the assumption that if you were to shoot the Master!Doctor in the head, he would then regenerate into another Master rather than into David Tennant—or at least, that's what the Master thinks would happen.)
** Alternatively, (content note:suicidal ideation) [[spoiler:in ''The Timeless Children'', the Master pretty clearly wants to die, either from his murder of Ashad triggering the Death Particle or the Doctor blowing him up—but for whatever reason, doesn't want to either kill himself or let Ko Sharmus do it. So maybe this is just an elaborate and slow form of suicide where he lives through one more regeneration as himself, then dies and regenerates as David Tennant and poof, Master erased.]]
*** Or [[spoiler:MurderSuicide. He was planning to refuse to regenerate, as he did in "Last of the Time Lords", but without the Disciples of Saxon to bring him back. No more Master, no more Doctor.]]
** Alternatively-alternatively, if you think that Missy's reform has left the Master capable of feeling guilt but without any particularly good coping mechanisms for it, if he turns into the Doctor, then suddenly he isn't actually responsible for any of the terrible things the Master has done. Back in ''The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People'' in Series 6, the ganger!Doctor has the same memories and personality as the original Doctor, but he knows that he's ''not'' actually the one who did all the things the Doctor regrets, with the result that the ganger!Doctor is much nicer and happier than the original Doctor. The Master might think that his forced regeneration plan might let him feel the same way. (This doesn't even need the Master to really ''be'' the Doctor in any objective sense—just to believe himself to be so.)
* The new UNIT headquarters, a stone skyscraper in the middle of London, is destroyed and not only is there very little damage or dust cloud of collateral damage but no one seems to bat an eyelid at it.
* Why is Mel on Earth when she was last seen in deep space, time period unspecified, with Glitz?
** Presumably she broke up with Glitz. Maybe she couldn't keep him on the straight-and-narrow after all.
** In ''The Giggle,'' Mel explicitly addresses this. Apparently, she actually stayed with Glitz until his death at the ripe old age of 101. She then got a lift from a Zingo, [[NoodleIncident whatever that is]], and returned to Earth.
* How does Ace manage to beat up a Dalek with an ordinary baseball bat? The baseball bat was only effective in ''Remembrance of the Daleks'' because it had been powered by the Hand of Omega, an extraordinary piece of Gallifreyan technology.
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** The Doctor is the Timeless Child and has theoretically infinite regenerations. The Master has spent a lot of time, pain, and effort into staying alive despite his Timelord-standard regeneration cap. Stealing the infinitely regenerating body is absolutely a thing the Classic Series Masters would do. (This does bring with it the assumption that if you were to shoot the Master!Doctor in the head, he would then regenerate into another Master rather than into David Tennant—or at least, that's what the Master thinks would happen.)

** Addressing both this question and the next, perhaps the Master was hoping to get a DNA test (or other high-tech identifying methods) verifying that he was, in fact, the Doctor?
** The Doctor is the Timeless Child and has theoretically infinite regenerations. The Master has spent a lot of time, pain, and effort into staying alive despite his Timelord-standard regeneration cap. Stealing the infinitely regenerationing body is absolutely a thing the Classic Series Masters would do. (This does bring with it the assumption that if you shoot the Master!Doctor in the head, he would then regenerate into another Master rather than into David Tennant—or at least, that's what the Master thinks would happen.)

* Why should anyone believe that some random man doing bad things is the Doctor? They are well known for doing good deeds and anyone seeing the footage is going to doubt it. The Master gives them to believe that he is anything more than someone out to tarnish the Doctor's name--which he is!

** Addressing both of the previous: perhaps the Master was hoping to get a DNA test verifying that he was, in fact, the Doctor?

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