Talk:The Impossible Planet (TV story)

There's more of a connection. Abbadon was claimed to be the name of that beast in TW, one of the names that the Ood say was Abaddon --Jono R 22:59, December 16, 2009 (UTC)

Something here's wrong, the language, the Doctor said that it was so old that the TARDIS couldn't translate it. What doesn't make sense is in (The Pandorica Opens) that in Planet One, the TARDIS could translate the language, but it would be so older than the Krop Tor Language

River Song wrote that message, so presumably she wrote it in a language that the TARDIS could recognize.


 * Firstly, please don't use talk pages for plot holes etc. Please use either the discontinuity page for this episode, or create a new page in the forums. Secondly, as the IP above said, the language River wrote in was a language that the Doctor and the TARDIS could understand. Also, Krop Tor was implied (or maybe even said) to be created before the universe was, making it much older than Planet One. The Thirteenth Doctor 15:06, August 10, 2010 (UTC)

Someone wrote the plot summary, especially Scooti's death scene, like bad fetish fuel fanfiction with overuse of pronouns and emotional language. I have reduced the offending dramatisement to the bare essentials, but it seems the rest of the summary could also do with some cleaning up from someone more experienced with plot editing than I.

18.111.123.93 05:26, September 4, 2010 (UTC)Nazne


 * I gave my best shot to fix this and edited the death scene to remove speculatory emotional language and for accuracy.ComicBookGoddess ☎  23:09, February 19, 2013 (UTC)

I suppose it isn't worth mentioning that, in the real world, there is nothing "impossible" about a planet orbiting a black hole? (Not to mention that the term 'geostationary' doesn't apply to a stationary orbit around a non-Earth body.) 174.110.143.94talk to me 03:42, July 27, 2012 (UTC)


 * The origin of geostationary does refer to Earth specifically, but as we've put satellites, etc, into orbit around other bodies (Mars, Venus, etc), use of the term has tended to become more generalised to mean synchronous to a particular point on the surface of whatever body is being orbited. It's a reasonable conclusion that this trend would continue, so I wouldn't see anything wrong in using that term in this case. As for the impossibility of orbiting a black hole, you're of course correct. The impossible nature of this particular case might be a matter of how close the planet is; meaning, if it's at a low enough orbit that it should really have fallen into the black hole already, but it seems to be in a completely stable orbit. That was how I interpreted it, but I agree that they could have expounded on it a bit. Spreee ☎  16:52, July 30, 2012 (UTC)Spreee


 * An actual geostationary orbit involves another stable object in rotation to stabilize the orbit. In the LaGrange points above the Earth, this is the Moon. There really doesn't seem to be anything like this helping to keep this planet in place. Also if entire systems are flowing past, this planet must be within the area where all material must be sucked into the hole. Sounds pretty impossible to me. ;) ComicBookGoddess ☎  23:09, February 19, 2013 (UTC)