Talk:Marco Polo (TV story)

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I have added the plot outline at the Wikipedia article for this story. As I shall soon be called away to dinner (made from scratch lasagna and bruscetta) and will be out of town for the next two days, I shall leave it to someone else to edit the plot to fit the style for this site. --Freethinker1of1 23:30, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

The plot outline has now been split in to episodes. I also did a minimal amount of re-writing. However, further work needs to be done as some important details are missing. Episode two and six particularly need to be expanded. An introductory paragraph also needs to be added. --Mantrid 17:47, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Discontinuity notes

I removed a discontinuity note, cause it's not really discontinuous:

• The TARDIS contains a circuit that if damaged can deactivate the lights, water supplies, and heating. Without this circuit the external temperature can affect the inside of the TARDIS allowing condensation to form on the walls. (why would a ship such as the TARDIS have one circuit which could cause this much damage if it became defective).

The basic answer to this is "because it does". It's like putting the following discontinuity notes into their respective episode pages:

• It is extremely improbable that a police box could be bigger on the inside than out. (An Unearthly Child)
• The TARDIS doesn't fly in normal space, but utilizes only the time space vortex to "disappear there and reappear here." (Fury from the Deep, "Time and the Rani", "The Runaway Bride")
• Why would the TARDIS have an alternate control room? That's just inviting trouble. Imagine if one of the companions discovered while getting a midnight snack and started flipping buttons! (The Masque of Mandragora)

Descriptions of how the TARDIS works, so long as they don't contradict other such descriptions, fundamentally can't be errors. The TARDIS is what the writers tell us it is. Moreover it's not really as much damage as the original editor suspects. It's little more than a blown fuse. Depending on how your house is wired, you could quite easily blow a circuit which could cut power to the lights, the water pump and the furnace in one go. And if it were the middle of winter, you'd be pretty screwed too. CzechOut ☎ | ✍ 03:04, 10 July 2008 (UTC)