7. The TARDIS Is Vomited Up By A Dinosaur
There simply isn't a polite way of describing what happens to the TARDIS in Capaldi's debut story, Deep Breath. It gets puked up by a giant T-Rex. The unfortunately odd aspect of this saurian regurgitation is that it's virtually certain there were never tyrannosaur-like dinosaurs big enough to swallow and upchuck objects as large as a police box. A predator that large and heavy wouldn't be fast enough to catch enough prey to avoid starvation. Besides, in the final analysis, the mega-giant T-Rex shown on screen is so much larger than any species in the fossil record that it's not remotely credible, whatever Vastra says. It looks cool, though. There's no question about that.
Mike Morgan
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Mike has lived in the UK, Japan and the USA. Currently, he is based in Iowa with his wife and 2 young children. After working for many years as a writer and editor for a large corporation, he is now a freelancer. He has been fortunate enough to contribute to many books on Doctor Who over the last 20 years and is now concentrating on original sci-fi & fantasy short stories, with recent sales including Flame Tree, Uffda, and The Martian Wave. Also, look for his contribution on Blake's 7 to "You and Who Else", a charity anthology to be released later this year.
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