A couple more thoughts on Utopia

[owl]

I've thought of a plot hole or three:

• If Jack had the magic watch of time travel all along, why did he not use it to escape the Tula ship before it blew up in The Doctor Dances?



• Ok, the TARDIS is a bit of a give-away, but how did Jack know that Ten was the Doctor as opposed to another companion?



• In the time that Martha comes from, 2007 or 2008, Saxon is around and hanging up campaign posters. If the Doctor can sense other Time Lords, how did he miss him?





Nothing to do with Utopia, but I've seen a lot of fics calling Martha an "intern". I assume that's American for house officer or whatever they're called at the minute, but I'd been assuming that she was a fifth-year student, based on her being 23 and still doing exams. Any medics about to correct me? Anyway, the word is still wrong. No interns.

Comments

[owl]

My point is that she isn't in the States, therefore intern is wrong. We used to have 5 years as a medical student, a pre-reg year in a hospital, then a couple more as a senior house officer. They've been changing the clinical training recently, I think the term is still house officer, but I wanted to check.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I assumed that as Martha talks about being a medical student, she is therefore is at one of the London hospital medical schools doing her clinical training, and thus a student in her 3 - 5th year (4 - 6th with intercalated BSc, which I think is compulsary there), rapidly forgetting everything she knows and is going to require the Doctor to faciliate three months on an island with her books before she returns. She's certainly not at the JHO/whatever it's called stage.

[owl]

Yes, that's what I was assuming, so even translating "intern" to house officer of whatever subspecies they're calling it nowadays, they're still wrong.