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1	'''WARNING! THERE MAY BE UNMARKED SPOILERS!'''
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4	* Christmas trees, being pines, are monoecious, meaning that they have both "male" and "female" parts on the same tree. They're actually a terrible choice for a story which pulls the "mothers are strong" trope, since they're a "single gender" species. So then, why do these Christmas trees make a big deal about gender? ''They're not really Christmas trees''. They're an alien species that ''resembles'' Christmas trees.
5	** Alternately, the trees wanted a female carrier because their concept of TheArk is a ''pine cone'', i.e. the female ''part'' of a coniferous tree that safely "conveys" seeds to the next springtime. A woman who'd borne children was simply the closest mammalian equivalent of a seed-bearing cone.
6	** That they would call males "weak" and females "strong" makes perfect sense if you know what the different sexes of pine cones look like. The pollen-producing male cones are small, flimsy, and short-lived, while the seed-bearing female cones are larger, very sturdy, and last for months.
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9	* What if the Doctor and the Arwells had shown up when the Doctor intended? They'd either be caught in the middle of the acid rain, or they'd be in the middle of a sea of battery acid.
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12	* Why is Cyril sleeping with his glasses on?
13	** Possibly he was worried he might fall out of the hammock if he woke up and couldn't see where he was.
14	** After a long trip to the country and a very exciting day with the Doctor, he may have just been dead tired and forgot to take them off.
15	** Considering he was planning to get up and open his presents early, he probably kept them on so it would easier to sneak off; the less time trying to find them from the hammock is more time he can spend sneaking down before he's noticed.
16	* Crossing over with Fridge Horror, the forest is consistently referred to as being made of ''Androzani'' trees. As in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E6TheCavesOfAndrozani "The Caves of Androzani"]]. As in the planets Androzani Major and Minor, which in that serial were engaged in a rather brutal war. In fact, it's implied that the forest is on Androzani Minor. And yet the Doctor describes the planet with the forest as "This is one of the safest planets I know! There's never any danger here . . ." (Yes, that ends up not being the case.) ''Excuse'' me?
17	** Time travel, mate. They were in a war during "Caves of Androzani," but that could have been centuries earlier. Or later.
18	** They're ''alien'' trees with the ability to evacuate a planet that's become unsuitable for them. They could have abandoned Androzani Minor when the war broke out and dispersed to any number of worlds in that vicinity, including the one where this story takes place.

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