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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 6123557" data-attributes="member: 40176">I think the importance of the psychic link in the TARDIS trips is being underestimated. Note that, while the TARDIS makes its own way into the pocket universe, when it emerges it materialises within the portal that the psychic link was opening.My interpretation was that the TARDIS might well have been unable to escape the pocket dimension on its remaining power, but the opened portal provided an easy exit for it. There wasn't an explicit explanation of that, but it seemed obvious to me at the time.I do feel that the story beats in the episode felt rather awkward. It seemed like it ought to have been the story of the two 'monsters' separated across the dimensions, and that it would have been a fine story of bad first impressions and eventual understanding, if only it hadn't all been crowded out by the Clara-and-Doctor stuff.The role of the experimental time traveller was also unforgivably marginalised - this is a pioneer of human-developed time travel, and she barely even gets a few lines of dialogue. Once she's been saved, she plays no further part in the plot and is reduced to standing around awkwardly in the background while people talk over her.</blockquote>