Headscratchers / Doctor Who S29 E1 "Smith and Jones"

• Why didn't Martha point out to the Judoon that letting the people of Earth die would be murder by inaction?
  • Because a) would you point to Scary Dogmatic Aliens that they're doing something wrong? She has some sense of self-preservation, and b) how do you know that galactic law has this concept? Maybe for them it's firmly in the domain of moral philosophy (or not even that)
• Why did the Doctor survive fatal blood loss, why did he survive fatal levels of radiation, even Röntgen radiation, when he's regenerated because of it in the past.
  • Radiation does not equal radiation. You're bombarded by lots of it all the time, you know. Only it's too low-energy to give your atoms more than a poke. To actually hurt you, your atoms would have to be shaken a bit.
  • As for the blood loss, we still don't know exactly how the Doctor's biology works. In any case, he's clearly still alive just before the Judoon and Martha burst in and Martha's able to revive him pretty quickly. It's possible he has more blood in him than humans do, so could stand the loss of it better.
  • As noted below, it also seems like she wasn't finished draining him when the Judoon burst in.
• How could the X-ray even be given that much power, ho could a modified MRI machine take out everything in a 250,000 mile radius?
  • Especially jarring considering the building isn't even connected to the power grid at the time. I can believe the building would still have power after being teleported to the moon since it's a hospital and hospitals almost always have backup generators, but I don't believe that backup generator could generate enough power to wipe out half of the population of the earth.
• How could a robot be made entirely out of leather?
  • Nobody said it was entirely leather. Also, alien leather, alien tanning methods. Basically, aliens.
• Why does the Judoon teleporter make rain?
  • They got it from a weather company.
  • Possibly it has something to do with the moisture in the atmosphere.
• How do the Judoon take what's presumably a blood test with a scanner like that
  • That's actually plausible. Soorta. More plausible than our hero's sonic screwdriver, at least.
• How does the plasmavore register as human without transferring the blood into her own system
  • Bizarre Alien Biology
• How many people died due to the rough landing?
  • Only those who weren't in their beds, like good little patients.
    • So, all the medical staff then?
• Could the Judoon be sued for negligence?
  • We wish...
• How could the Doctor carry Martha (unless this is an unacknowledged instance of the Respiratory Bypass)
  • Heroic Second Wind
• How would the Doctor taking his tie off prove anything? All it means is the box disappeared and then came back, he could have just gone inside, entered the vortex and taken his tie off, then come back, after sneaking out of the hospital earlier.
  • She met the future version of him first and then the version of him that hasn't met her yet.
    • That doesn't respond the question. The point is that the Doctor could've fudged this to fool Martha. But to actually give a proper answer, it wasn't supposed to prove anything. It just makes Martha remember that incident and realize that that's the reason it happened.
• Why oh why does nobody bring up the fact that the moon is supposed to have one sixth of the Earth's gravity, instead talking about the lack of airtightedness of windows to point out the weirdness of the situation?
  • The Judoon installed artificial gravity to make their search easier. It's hard to look intimidating when you are bouncing around like big Rhino shaped balloon.
  • Because one is a lot more apparent than the other. If you were stranded on the moon with nothing, but plain clothes, your first concern wouldn't be adjusting to gravity, but desperately gasping for oxygen.
• Okay, so we know that CPR is clean, pretty, and reliable, but how does it bring someone back to life after they've had all the blood sucked out of them? The Doctor's not human, but he's gotta need his blood for something!
  • I think that was the point of the kiss he gave to Martha. It doesn't quite make sense, but I think it only worked because of that.
  • I got the impression that Martha and the Judoon arrived before the Plasmavore could suck all the Doctor's blood. He probably lost enough that his hearts stopped, but CPR could start them again and he could function.
• When Martha meets the Doctor in the hospital, does she hear his second heart beating? Or does the Doctor or Tardis stop her from hearing it somehow?
  • She clearly hears the second heart beat. She hears his hearts on both sides of his chest.
• In the Sarah Jane Smith Adventures episode Prisoner of the Judoon, the Judoon are shown to be extremely particular about following the laws and general codes of conduct of any given place. When on Earth, they will, as shown in the episode, even refuse to disobey pay-and-display signs (for parking), and will command people to turn down their loud music at gunpoint. Why, then are the Judoon completely okay with breaking numerous Earth laws by kidnapping an entire hospital full of people? And invading the Moon, which under the laws of Earth, is the shared property of the human race?
  • Different Judoon unit, maybe? And perhaps there's the fact that they were looking for a Plasmavore with some very heinous crimes under her belt.
  • When on Earth, they follow Earth laws. But they weren't on Earth. They just borrowed a bit of Earth to bring to neutral territory.

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