It was always thought that the TARDIS was infinite in size within, but then Christopher Hamilton Bidmead came along and said that a certain percentage of it could be deleted. You can't have a percentage of infinity, so the TARDIS had to be finite in internal dimensions. Bidmead then had the ship lose a full 25% of its internal mass, so possibly not even of vast size internally.
It should still be of such a scale, however, that a single representative of an alien species shouldn't be able to tear the entire fabric apart and then put it all back together again - and certainly not by simply waving drunkenly to and fro.
More than a bit lucky that most bits of TARDIS are embedded in rock, yet the console and its room are seemingly intact and at least partially operational.
If the Gravis knows about Time Lords and their time machines, why split up the ship in the first place? Why not simply pull it underground, open the doors and get access. If he's so smart, the Gravis ought to be able to work out its operation eventually.
The Doctor tricks the Gravis into reconstituting the TARDIS, as it will cut off its mental link with the rest of its kind. But since when did the TARDIS ever keep any sort of signal out. Psychic projections and even radio waves have penetrated it in the past.
Turlough knows of the Tractators from his own planet. They're going to turn Frontios into a giant spaceship to get them about - but how did they manage to visit other planets in the past? They don't appear to be a very technologically advanced species. They have only very crude mining machines, reliant on human beings (or bits of them), and only the Gravis seems to have any special powers. The rest are pretty useless without him.
Is his nose the seat of his powers - as he's the only one that has one?
Just why is the Doctor so afraid to be so far in the future? He has never bothered too much about what the Time Lords would do, and has visited Earth colonies at crucial moments in their history in the past.
Something everyone notices is the metal bar, which Tegan places across the middle of the door handles to delay a pursuer, magically moving to the top of the door handles all by itself.
The run up to this scene shows that Tegan needn't have bothered as her pursuer takes ages to reach the door anyway - long enough for her to run out, look round, grab the bar, then put it in place. He was only a few feet away from her in a relatively small room.
The spaceship crashed decades ago, and yet no-one has gotten round to putting a proper floor in the infirmary. It is basically a dirt floor, which is hardly hygienic for a hospital setting. Why are sick people not being treated in the spaceship? Surely it would afford more protection than a shelter built out in the open.
There's no electricity, but Mr Range uses an electronic keypad to open filing cabinets.
A number of cuts were made - one of which leads to a continuity error as Tegan is aware of the Doctor's plans when he hasn't told her them.
There's a lot of 20th Century language on display, despite this being in the very far future, yet no-one knows what a coat / hat stand is - despite people still wearing hats and coats.
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