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I, along with a lot of the internets, was very hyped about the incredibly thin possibility that Nine might make an appearance on the Titanic, due to his comment to Jabe. However, I have shot my own hope down in flames, as I am wont to do when I start picking holes.
We know that Nine had only recently regenerated in Rose. We then get The End of the World and Nine's line. The way he said it, though, makes it seem like it was a while back for him. There is the possibility that Nine travelled about for a while on his own before coming back to ask Rose to come with him again, but it's slim. This means that Ten is likely to run into any previous incarnation other than Nine, if he runs into any at all.
Then again, we all know that RTD doesn't mind screwing over his own canon, so there may be hope yet.

In other news, plotholes!

Why was the Doctor never squicked out by the Face of Boe's unchangingness?
- I know the RL answer; that RTD made that up five minutes before the final draft was due.
- Unchangingness my arse. So much for completely fixed and immobile point in time and space.
- How the hell does that even work? He did the opposite to the Doctor as he got incredibly old; grew absolutely huge. And where exactly is the midpoint in the transformation? And what about the rest of Boekind? We heard about them. I thought there was this whole species.
- And so much for Jack never dying. He died in Gridlock. So, way to completely screw over any hope we may have had that Jack might be able to sort out his immortality thing. Well, I suppose he kind of did, but not in a satisfying way.
- The reveal? Makes no sense in Jack's context. Let's assume for a moment that neither we nor the Doctor and Martha had ever heard of the Face of Boe. Jack's parting words are now completely meaningless.
JACK: *salutes* Goodbye, Doctor, Martha! *leaves* *comes back* P.S. I used to be a poster boy and then I joined the Time Agency and they called me the Face of Boe. Bye!
DOCTOR AND MARTHA: ...WTF was that last bit for?
Jack really had no reason whatsoever to share that with them, as he doesn't know about the Face of Boe. It was so obviously shoehorned into the script at the last minute. I hate it when people do that. Like in Spiderman 3 when Harry's butler decides just then to tell him that his Spiderman didn't actually kill his dad. It was that moment because they had to propel the story along, but it doesn't make sense for the butler, as a real person with no idea of what's going on, to suddenly decide that now might be a good time to tell Harry that hey, your Dad's death was his own fault and wasn't really Spiderman's, just so you know.
- Jack did bugger-all, apart from revealing that he is the Face of Boe. Come on, man! This is Jack! You were doing it right in Utopia, with him flirting left and right and actually being useful. In this, he's chained up, covered in grease, and is the Face of Boe. Whoop-de-doo. There should have been a farewell snog, or something.
- And we still have no mention of Jack's two years of missing memories. Way to not tie up loose plot ends, RTD.

I still don't get the Archangel network giving the Doctor power. Didn't they say last week that it wasn't mind control? It's not hooked up to people's brains. It's subliminal suggestion. Perhaps the Master upped the power after his official hostile takeover? He wouldn't need to worry about subterfuge any more, so he could affect people's minds more directly. If that were the case, though, there should have been some exposition. Otherwise it just comes of as bad continuity.

Lucy could have used a lot more character development. In SoD, she's slightly crazyface, drunk on power, and she and the Master seem to adore each other. In LotTL, Lucy is severely unhinged, has a black eye when we first see her, and then shoots the Master in the stomach. The hell? Sure, a lot can happen over a year, and the Master may have pushed her over the edge, but it warrants a bit of dialogue, surely. How, exactly, did he push her over the edge? And why? Did he just get bored, or was he not really that fond of her in the first place, or what?

And, finally, question/possible plot hole: Shot to the stomach like that. Is it really gonna be fatal? Especially so quickly? I really wouldn't know. What is it about shooting that kills people? Is it the internal bleeding, or the organs being damaged and shutting down, or what? I mean, I assume that you get shot in the heart or the head, that's a bloody important organ and you're down. Lungs, they fill up with blood, you drown, very nasty. But through your spleen or whatever? Eh, perhaps Wikipedia can help.
Wow, that was a lot longer than I expected it to be.

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Since it doesn't seem like anyone else replied: if you get shot through the stomach you have an excellent survival chance. Unless the aorta gets hit, and even then it would go slower. The things you learn by working in the A & E...