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4	* Why did the lost crew members stay for generations on the bottom of the ship? The lifts were working correctly so they shouldn't have had any problem coming back up after they finished fixing the engines, after what would seem like seconds to the people still on the bridge.
5	** All that has to happen is for the lifts to return to the bridge. Even if the lifts don't stop between the bridge and the aft end, that's an awfully long time to wait...[[/folder]]
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8	* 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.
9	* 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.
10	* 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.]]
11	* 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!
12	* 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!
13	** 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.
14	* Somewhere between Brilliance and Horror: Little wonder Missy's first outing involved building a Cyberman army and how she specifically targeted [[spoiler: some of the Doctor's friends, such as the Brigadier]]. Looks like the Master had ''plenty'' of practice and had thoroughly tested that strategy. If anything could drag the Doctor down to the Master's level and convince The Doctor that The Master ''couldn't'' be redeemed, it would be The Master themselves hitting the Doctor's friends.
15	* The "exposition/comic relief" gag about genders actually scans pretty well to the history of the series. Eras where there were three TARDIS travellers almost always fall into those archetypes - Jamie, Harry, Mickey and Rory all fit the "comic relief" role while Zoe, Sarah Jane, Rose and Amy were the traditional audience surrogates. Hex and Turlough might be loosely said to fit too (opposite Ace and Tegan). And Adric (opposite Romana) probably counts as an unpopular one.
16	* The Doctor pulls the end off his sonic screwdriver, revealing it's also a marker-pen. Not only are there RealLife [[TheMerch 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.
17	* Given that around 20 people [[AdamAndEvePlot wouldn't be enough for genetic diversity]], there's another reason why the colonists need new bodies.
18	* When the Master as Razor says that Bill is like a mother or aunt to him, he's demonstrating the same age blindness that the Twelfth Doctor previously has.
19	* Razor, for all intents and purposes, looks like a troll. When he reveals to Bill he is actually the Master, it turns out he was literally trolling her from the beginning.
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23	* 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.
24	* 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.
25	** 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.
26	* 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.
27	* 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.
28	** Once again, a guy with an itchy trigger finger is the UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom. The Doctor and company are all safe and sound until the LeeroyJenkins shows up.
29	** 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." 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.''
30	* Cyber-Bill's plaintive "I waited for you" becomes even ''more'' painful for the Doctor on a personal level, if you remember that he's lost his memories of Clara ... which means the last human he actually recalls having traveled with was '''Amy''', whom he'd also had a terrible habit of leaving behind to wait for him. Only this time, ''he's far too late''.

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