History Quotes / SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseofScale

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->Space is not really big. Space is just something to be big in.

->I think you have seen the end of Kazon space. If you think about it, [[TheUsualAdversaries traveling for a year-and-a-half through a part of space dominated by one group]] is pretty amazing! I think traveling at warp speed for a year-and-a-half you would pass through the Federation, the Klingon Empire and a few other places.

->This scene is shown from outside of the ship, and those that noted the whole "two light years across" thing a minute ago might also notice that the entire [[NegativeSpaceWedgie phenomenon]], as shown, is not that much bigger than ''Voyager'' itself. I had no idea ''Voyager'' was so flipping huge! (Although, I did have some inkling from the opening credits that it's roughly the size of a planet.)\\\
Dang it, writers! This whole mess could have been avoided if you had taken four words—"two light years across"—out of the script! It really wouldn't have changed anything else about the story.
-->--'''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''' on ''Star Trek: Voyager'', "The Fight"

->Why didn't they just put the holo-ship, like, 500 miles away on another continent? or in fucking orbit? They were plannin' to transport the people onto the ship anyways. So why ''hide it in lake?'' other than to have Picard and Data discover it [[VoodooShark to give the illusion that this movie has some kind complex mystery plot?]] (Someone also please tell me the logic of [[ForgottenPhlebotinum havin' to hide somethin' that's invisible.]])
-->--'''[[WebVideo/RedLetterMedia Harry S. Plinkett]]''' on ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection''

->You mean to tell me that they constructed a planet-sized shell around the Earth made of '''''brains'''''. Guess you can't make an omelet without breaking several trillion eggs. I simply can't find the words to comment on how amazing this is. I've heard my nephew in grade school make up some stupid, whacked-out stories while playing with action figures, but none of them were as insane as this. Plus--and this is the really crazy part--that means that the Death Star...'''''is Earth!!''''' ...no, [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer I'm being real here]]: what you see as the Death Star is really the shell (made of compressed brain molecules, I remind you) surrounding the Earth. And I'm absolutely certain of this because just then, the Evil Space Lord attacks the Death Star Earth with X-Wings.

->Long ago, in order to create Energon for the first Transformers, they would destroy stars. ''Stars''. Plural. You'd think just one would've probably been enough for a whole planet for eons, but these guys apparently have the energy efficiency of a Hummer filled with cinderblocks--towing ''another'' Hummer filled with cinder blocks. Still, our galaxy alone contains a hundred billion stars, so we can spare a few; so the Primes said, 'We're gonna do that, but we'll make a rule: No destroying inhabited worlds.' And that's why The Fallen lost his shit at the beginning of the film....That's right: the 'Revenge' that The Fallen is seeking is because he's [[IdiotPlot a lazy-ass robot who could not be bothered]] to walk ''next door'' and consume its sun instead.
-->-- '''{{Website/SFDebris}}''' on ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen''

->[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS10E4PlanetOfTheDaleks}} Previously]], we had the idea that an army of 10,000 Daleks is massively terrifying on a galactic scale. That would be, roughly, the population of Woodbury, Connecticut. (No, of course [[FlyoverCountry you haven't heard of it]]. That's the point.) [[Creator/TerryNation Nation]] goes on here to establish the stakes of this story -- ten million people across the galaxy might die. Although ten million people is indeed a lot, it's somewhat less significant when you consider the fact that it's roughly the population of Hungary, or if you prefer, Seoul. This is a somewhat lackluster figure on a galactic scale.

->Let me get this straight, an Emperor of a thousand galaxies (try and get your head around the sheer size of that for a moment and consider how that could have even come about) has decided to take a vacation on a deserted theme park playing chess inside a gutted out Cyberman suit. Erm, why exactly? If it was supposed to be a place to hide away from his responsibilities I can imagine fifty better destinations off the top of my head... Instead of clenching my butt with fear that the Cybermen were coming I was groaning at the reveal that there were twelvety million of them (what is the obsession with huge numbers?)
-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.com/2012/09/series-seven.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhos33e12NightmareinSilver}} "Nightmare in Silver"]]

->Space. It's huge. So huge, in fact, that if you'd lost your car keys in it, [[{{Understatement}} they would be almost impossible to find.]]
-->--'''Captain Qwark''', ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime'' (ironically, a major offender in department of distance)

->It could blow a hole in the space-time continuum the size of--!! ''(glances at monitor, deflates a little)'' well, actually, [[HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure the exact size of Belgium]]. ''*sighs*'' That’s a bit undramatic, isn’t it? Belgium?

->By way of summary, the 115,128 networked, civilized star systems of the 31st-century Milky-Way Galaxy ''(population: 10,283 trillion and four. No... wait. Five. Err... three. Crap. Hold still.)
-->--''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20020415.html April 15, 2002]]

-->--'''''{{lonelygirl15}}'' episode "Emma's Choice", on the mass of a proton'''

->Anyway, fantasy cartography is a pet peeve of mine; i think most fantasy cartographers forget that peasants and armies on foot can't travel a hundred miles an hour.
-->--'''D.Archon, rpg.net'''

->Scale in Transformers is, not to put too fine a point on it, screwed. Virtually no era, franchise, fiction, toyline or other incarnation of Transformers has presented scale in a logical or believable fashion.

->Clearly, the pitiful humans at Hasbro are so overwhelmed by the awesomeness of Cybertronian life forms that they can't get the scale right.
-->--'''[[TheStarscream Starscream]]'''

->Ayup. Yes indeedy. Yuup. N-nothing. ''Lots and lots of n-nothing!''

->We can't search this whole planet on foot!
-->--'''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Captain Kirk]], "The Man Trap"'''

->“When we showed [[GeorgeRRMartin George Martin]] The Wall,” says lead designer Sylvain Sechi of introducing the books’ author to the giant, miles-long icy structure/metaphor that protects the land of Westeros from the wildlings (and worse) that lurk up north, “he says ‘that’s a very, very big wall.” Upon their explaining to him that they’d made it to scale according to his description, he replied that “I wrote it too big!”
-->--'''[[ASongOfIceAndFire Game of Thrones]] videogame lead designer Sylvain Sechi, as quoted in RockPaperShotgun'''

->Seriously, one of the things that is very, very difficult to portray when writing anything involving Space is the truly ridiculous distances involved in anything. Let me give you a rundown of things:\\\

And I'm not even going outside the ''solar system'', which on cosmological terms is roughly equivalent to one's house. No wonder [[SinsOfASolarEmpire [=SoaSE=]]] ships go into FTL for in-system travel.
-->-- '''Dalek Ix, author of Fanfic/FriendsOfASolarEmpire, in a blog entry.'''

->[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS10E4PlanetOfTheDaleks}} Previously]], we had the idea that an army of 10,000 Daleks is massively terrifying on a galactic scale. That would be, roughly, the population of Woodbury, Connecticut. (No, of course [[FlyoverCountry you haven't heard of it]]. That's the point.) [[TerryNation Nation]] goes on here to establish the stakes of this story -- ten million people across the galaxy might die. Although ten million people is indeed a lot, it's somewhat less significant when you consider the fact that it's roughly the population of Hungary, or if you prefer, Seoul. This is a somewhat lackluster figure on a galactic scale.

->It is about ''149,600,000 kilometers away''. If it were the size of a soccer ball, then the Earth would be 23.57 meters away. If you were on an SR-71 Blackbird traveling at it's fastest official speed (3,529.6 Km/h), it would take you 15 ''years'' to get there. It takes ''light'', the fastest thing known to man, eight minutes to get here from the Sun. We refer to this distance as an Astronomical Unit, or AU, since kilometers are too damned small for anything inside the solar system.\\\

->''"Seriously, one of the things that is very, very difficult to portray when writing anything involving Space is the truly ridiculous distances involved in anything." ''
-->-- '''Dalek Ix''', author of ''FanFic/FriendsOfASolarEmpire'', in a blog entry.

It is about ''149,600,000 kilometers away''. If it were the size of a soccer ball, then the Earth would be 23.57 meters away. If you were on an SR-71 Blackbird traveling at it's fastest official speed (3,529.6 Km/h), it would take you 15 ''years'' to get there. It takes ''light'', the fastest thing known to man, eight minutes to get here from the Sun. We refer to this distance as an Astronomical Unit, or AU, since kilometers are too damned small for anything inside the solar system.\\\

-> Space is ''big''. '''''Really''''' big. I mean, you might think it's a long way down to the street to the chemist, but that's ''peanuts'' compared to space, ''listen!''...
-->-- '''Reported opening lines of the eponymous ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''.'''

-->--'''Captain Qwark''', ''RatchetAndClank Future: A Crack In Time'' (ironically, a major offender in department of distance)

->Long ago, in order to create Energon for the first Transformers, they would destroy stars. ''Stars''. Plural. You'd think just one would've probably been enough for a whole planet for eons, but these guys apparently have the energy efficiency of a Hummer filled with cinderblocks towing ''another'' Hummer filled with cinder blocks. Still, our galaxy alone contains a hundred billion stars, so we can spare a few; so the Primes said, 'We're gonna do that, but we'll make a rule: No destroying inhabited worlds.' And that's why The Fallen lost his shit at the beginning of the film. He was all set to harvest our sun, but then the humans show up, and now suddenly he can't? Well, what is he supposed to do, just chalk it up to dumb luck? '''No!''' He will defy the Primes and harvest ''this'' sun anyway! That's right: the 'Revenge' that The Fallen is seeking is because he's [[IdiotPlot a lazy-ass robot who could not be bothered]] to walk ''next door'' and consume its sun instead.

->Let me get this straight, an Emperor of a thousand galaxies (try and get your head around the sheer size of that for a moment and consider how that could have even come about) has decided to take a vacation on a deserted theme park playing chess inside a gutted out Cyberman suit. Erm, why exactly? If it was supposed to be a place to hide away from his responsibilities I can imagine fifty better destinations off the top of my head.

->''Voyager'' is, according to Ensign Kim, 11,000 kilometers from [[NegativeSpaceWedgie the phenomenon]]. And the big problem here is that the entire phenomenon is visible on ''Voyager''[='=]s bridge viewscreen. From 11,000 km away. And it's supposed to be two light years across.\\\
Two light years is roughly ''19 trillion km.''\\\
I'll only briefly mention the idiocy of watching something that big as it moves in real time. Assuming Voyager was aligned with the center of the phenomenon, the visible light from each end would take a year to even get to ''Voyager''. Even dumber, what kind of mega-fish-eye optics do they have on that viewscreen? The geometry they describe here is like putting your nose on the ground, and still being able to see the whole landscape from horizon to horizon...This scene is shown from outside of the ship, and those that noted the whole "two light years across" thing a minute ago might also notice that the entire phenomenon, as shown, is not that much bigger than ''Voyager'' itself. I had no idea ''Voyager'' was so flipping huge! (Although, I did have some inkling from the opening credits that it's roughly the size of a planet.)\\\

->So, on the Day of Lightning (which was last Thursday, I think), Data must've been about to discover the hidden holo-ship which was hidden in a lake to prevent someone from finding it (even though they find it without any problem when they don't even know what they're looking for.)\\\
Then, even though the Ba'ku claim to have rejected all technology, [[SchizoTech they've built a complex machine they use to drain the lake]] for no other reason than to discover a hidden holo-ship...And if ''that'' were the case, then the Ba'ku would've noticed that the water is much higher than it used to be. So basically, '''none of this makes sense.'''\\\
But what ''really'' doesn't make sense is: Why didn't they just put the holo-ship, like, 500 miles away on another continent? or in fucking orbit? They were plannin' to [[TeleportersAndTransporters transport]] the people onto the ship anyways, so why ''hide it in lake?'' other than to have Picard and Data discover it [[VoodooShark to give the illusion that this movie has some kind complex mystery plot?]] (Someone also please tell me the logic of [[ForgottenPhlebotinum havin' to hide somethin' that's invisible.]])

-->-- '''Reported opening lines of the eponymous ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''.'''

-->-- '''Creator/TerryPratchett''', ''[[Literature/{{Discworld}} The Light Fantastic]]''

->Amidst more lurches, we find out that ''Voyager'' has encountered some sort of phenomenon that keeps moving to block their path. Nobody knows what it is; it doesn't match anything in their databases. It is big, however: two light years across. ''Voyager'' is, according to Ensign Kim, 11,000 kilometers from the phenomenon. And the big problem here is that the entire phenomenon is visible on ''Voyager''[='=]s bridge viewscreen. From 11,000 km away. And it's supposed to be two light years across.\\\
Two light years is roughly ''19 trillion km.''

-->--'''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''' on the ''Star Trek: Voyager'' intro sequence

->Okay, I have to call bullshit on the shot of ''Voyager'' flying over the rings of a planet. Check out its reflection in the rings. Apparently, one starship can take up a significant percentage of the width of a planet's rings. Now, I know this isn't Saturn, but just for the sake of comparison, Saturn's rings are thousands of kilometers wide. So, if this were Saturn, ''Voyager'' would have to be about as wide as the Earth itself, no?

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->''"I think you have seen the end of Kazon space. If you think about it, [[TheUsualAdversaries traveling for a year-and-a-half through a part of space dominated by one group]] is pretty amazing! I think traveling at warp speed for a year-and-a-half you would pass through the Federation, the Klingon Empire and a few other places."''
-->-- '''Rick Berman''', executive producer of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''

->''"You mean to tell me that they constructed a planet-sized shell around the Earth made of '''''brains'''''. Guess you can't make an omelet without breaking several trillion eggs. I simply can't find the words to comment on how amazing this is. I've heard my nephew in grade school make up some stupid, whacked-out stories while playing with action figures, but none of them were as insane as this. Plus--and this is the really crazy part--that means that the Death Star...'''''is Earth!!''''' ...no, [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer I'm being real here]]: what you see as the Death Star is really the shell (made of compressed brain molecules, I remind you) surrounding the Earth. And I'm absolutely certain of this because just then, the Evil Space Lord attacks the Death Star Earth with X-Wings."''

->''"Long ago, in order to create Energon for the first Transformers, they would destroy stars. ''Stars''. Plural. You'd think just one would've probably been enough for a whole planet for eons, but these guys apparently have the energy efficiency of a Hummer filled with cinderblocks towing ''another'' Hummer filled with cinder blocks. Still, our galaxy alone contains a hundred billion stars, so we can spare a few; so the Primes said, 'We're gonna do that, but we'll make a rule: No destroying inhabited worlds.' And that's why The Fallen lost his shit at the beginning of the film. He was all set to harvest our sun, but then the humans show up, and now suddenly he can't? Well, what is he supposed to do, just chalk it up to dumb luck? '''No!''' He will defy the Primes and harvest ''this'' sun anyway! That's right: the 'Revenge' that The Fallen is seeking is because he's [[IdiotPlot a lazy-ass robot who could not be bothered]] to walk ''next door'' and consume its sun instead."''

->''"[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS10E4PlanetOfTheDaleks}} Previously]], we had the idea that an army of 10,000 Daleks is massively terrifying on a galactic scale. That would be, roughly, the population of Woodbury, Connecticut. (No, of course [[FlyoverCountry you haven't heard of it]]. That's the point.) [[TerryNation Nation]] goes on here to establish the stakes of this story -- ten million people across the galaxy might die. Although ten million people is indeed a lot, it's somewhat less significant when you consider the fact that it's roughly the population of Hungary, or if you prefer, Seoul. This is a somewhat lackluster figure on a galactic scale."''
-->-- '''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2011/06/why-are-earth-people-so-parochial.html Phil Sandifer]]''' on [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS11E3DeathToTheDaleks}} "Death to the Daleks"]]

->''"Let me get this straight, an Emperor of a thousand galaxies (try and get your head around the sheer size of that for a moment and consider how that could have even come about) has decided to take a vacation on a deserted theme park playing chess inside a gutted out Cyberman suit. Erm, why exactly? If it was supposed to be a place to hide away from his responsibilities I can imagine fifty better destinations off the top of my head."''
-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.com/2012/09/series-seven.html Doc Oho]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhos33e12NightmareinSilver}} "Nightmare in Silver"]]

->''"It could blow a hole in the space-time continuum the size of--!! ''(glances at monitor, deflates a little)'' well, actually, [[HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure the exact size of Belgium]]. ''*sighs*'' That’s a bit undramatic, isn’t it? Belgium?"''

->''"By way of summary, the 115,128 networked, civilized star systems of the 31st-century Milky-Way Galaxy ''(population: 10,283 trillion and four. No... wait. Five. Err... three. Crap. Hold still.)"'' ''

->''Space is not really big. Space is just something to be big in.''

->'''Jonas:''' The actual answer is slightly more than one atomic mass unit. Slightly more than one atomic mass unit.
->'''Emma:''' Wait a second! That's not even a real answer. "Slightly more?" That's... I gave-
->'''Jonas:''' Well, that's all for this week!
->'''Emma:''' Wait, I gave one sixteenth of a pound! "Slightly more" is vague!

->''Space. It's huge. So huge, in fact, that if you'd lost your car keys in it, they would be almost impossible to find.''
-->--'''Captain Qwark''', ''RatchetAndClank Future: A Crack In Time'' (ironically, a major offender in department of distance)

->''Anyway, fantasy cartography is a pet peeve of mine; i think most fantasy cartographers forget that peasants and armies on foot can't travel a hundred miles an hour.''

->''"Scale in Transformers is, not to put too fine a point on it, screwed. Virtually no era, franchise, fiction, toyline or other incarnation of Transformers has presented scale in a logical or believable fashion."''

->''Clearly, the pitiful humans at Hasbro are so overwhelmed by the awesomeness of Cybertronian life forms that they can't get the scale right.''

-> Ayup. Yes indeedy. Yuup. N-nothing. ''Lots and lots of n-nothing!''

->''We can't search this whole planet on foot!''

-> Seriously, one of the things that is very, very difficult to portray when writing anything involving Space is the truly ridiculous distances involved in anything. Let me give you a rundown of things:

-> (Picture of the moon) This is the moon, it is the closest celestial body we have. it is, on average, ''384,400 kilometers away''. This is a distance equivalent to nine times the circumference of the Earth, more or less. To give you an idea of how fraking huge this distance is, it would take you eight or nine ''years'' to walk this far, and only if you were some magical automaton that didn't require eating or sleeping. On a car doing 100 Km/h, this would take 160 days (and a bit).

-> And keep in mind that we're talking about the ''fraking moon'', which on cosmological terms is roughly equivalent to shuffling about in your seat slightly.

-> Next on our list of absurd distances is this: (Picture of the sun) This is the sun, our closest star. It is 1.392.000 kilometers wide, or three times the distance between the Earth and Moon. If the Sun were the size of a soccer ball (22 cm in diameter), then the Earth would be about two milimeters wide.

-> It is about ''149,600,000 kilometers away''. If it were the size of a soccer ball, then the Earth would be 23.57 meters away. If you were on an SR-71 Blackbird traveling at it's fastest official speed (3,529.6 Km/h), it would take you 15 ''years'' to get there. It takes ''light'', the fastest thing known to man, eight minutes to get here from the Sun. We refer to this distance as an Astronomical Unit, or AU, since kilometers are too damned small for anything inside the solar system.

-> Finally, we have this thing: (Picture of a tiny dot of light) That thing, that fraking thing, is Eris. It is the largest dwarf planet discovered, and currently holds the title of the farthest planetary body in our solar system. How far away is it?

-> At its closest? ''37.77 AU'', or '''''5,650,000,000 km'''''. Holy fraking horseapples. If you so desired to make the journey on the previously mentioned SR-71 Blackbird, it would take you '''''''566 FRAKING YEARS'''''''. If you wanted to get there today, you'd have to have left during the Battle of Varna.

-> And I'm not even going outside the ''solar system'', which on cosmological terms is roughly equivalent to one's house. No wonder [[SinsOfASolarEmpire [=SoaSE=]]] ships go into FTL for in-system travel.

-> The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

-->-- '''CarlSagan, reflecting on an image of Earth taken by Voyager 1 at the edge of the Solar System, which was barely a pixel in size.'''

-> Space is ''big''. '''''Really''''' big. I mean, you might think it's a long way down to the street to the chemist, but that's ''peanuts'' compared to space, ''listen!''...

-->-- '''Reported opening lines of the eponymous ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''.'''

-->--'''Rick Berman''', executive producer of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''

-->-- '''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Noah Antwiler]]''' [[http://spoonyexperiment.com/turkish-star-wars/ on]] ''TurkishStarWars''

-->--'''{{Website/SFDebris}}''' on ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen''

!!!Fction

->''"[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS10E4PlanetOfTheDaleks}} Previously]], we had the idea that an army of 10,000 Daleks is massively terrifying on a galactic scale. That would be, roughly, the population of Woodbury, Connecticut. (No, of course [[[FlyoverCountry you haven't heard of it]]. That's the point.) [[TerryNation Nation]] goes on here to establish the stakes of this story -- ten million people across the galaxy might die. Although ten million people is indeed a lot, it's somewhat less significant when you consider the fact that it's roughly the population of Hungary, or if you prefer, Seoul. This is a somewhat lackluster figure on a galactic scale."''

->''"[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS10E4PlanetOfTheDaleks}} Previously]], we had the idea that an army of 10,000 Daleks is massively terrifying on a galactic scale. That would be, roughly, the population of Woodbury, Connecticut. (No, of course you haven't heard of it. That's the point.) [[TerryNation (Terry) Nation]] goes on here to establish the stakes of this story -- ten million people across the galaxy might die. Although ten million people is indeed a lot, it's somewhat less significant when you consider the fact that it's roughly the population of Hungary, or if you prefer, Seoul. This is a somewhat lackluster figure on a galactic scale."''

->''"You mean to tell me that they constructed a planet-sized shell around the Earth made of '''''brains'''''. Guess you can't make an omelet without breaking several trillion eggs. I simply can't find the words to comment on how amazing this is. I've heard my nephew in grade school make up some stupid, whacked-out stories while playing with action figures, but none of them were as insane as this. Plus--and this is the really crazy part--that means that the Death Star...'''''is Earth!!''''' ...no, [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer I'm being real here]]: what you see as the Death Star is really the shell (made of compressed brain molecules, I remind you) surrounding the Earth. And I'm absolutely certain of this because just then, the Evil Space Lord attacks the Death Star Earth with X-Wings. The bad guys are flying fucking X-Wings, and the Earthlings are the ones in TIE Fighters."''

->''"It could blow a hole in the space-time continuum the size of--!! ''(glances at monitor, deflates a little)'' well, actually, the exact size of Belgium. ''*{{sigh}}s*'' That’s a bit undramatic, isn’t it? Belgium?"''

->''By way of summary, the 115,128 networked, civilized star systems of the 31st-century Milky-Way Galaxy ''(population: 10,283 trillion and four. No... wait. Five. Err... three. Crap. Hold still.)'' ''

->''"I think you have seen the end of Kazon space. If you think about it, [[TheUsualAdversaries traveling for a year-and-a-half through a part of space dominated by one group]] is pretty amazing! I think traveling at warp speed for a year-and-a-half you would pass through the Federation, the Klingon Empire and a few other places. So I think we have overextended our visit into Kazon space and those stories are all going to be resolved and done with at the beginning of the ''[third]'' season."''

->''"[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS10E4PlanetOfTheDaleks}} Previously]], we had the idea that an army of 10,000 Daleks is massively terrifying on a galactic scale. That would be, roughly, the population of Woodbury, Connecticut. (No, of course you haven't heard of it. That's the point.) [[(TerryNation (Terry) Nation]] goes on here to establish the stakes of this story -- ten million people across the galaxy might die. Although ten million people is indeed a lot, it's somewhat less significant when you consider the fact that it's roughly the population of Hungary, or if you prefer, Seoul. This is a somewhat lackluster figure on a galactic scale."''

->''[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS10E4PlanetOfTheDaleks}} Previously]], we had the idea that an army of 10,000 Daleks is massively terrifying on a galactic scale. That would be, roughly, the population of Woodbury, Connecticut. (No, of course you haven't heard of it. That's the point.) Nation goes on here to establish the stakes of this story -- ten million people across the galaxy might die. Although ten million people is indeed a lot, it's somewhat less significant when you consider the fact that it's roughly the population of Hungary, or if you prefer, Seoul. This is a somewhat lackluster figure on a galactic scale.''