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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 3268487" data-attributes="member: 18280">SPOILERSJust as a side note, the idea of a hole being bored into the Earth has been done on Dr Who twice before.  In the 3rd Doctor's era, it released a gas that turned people into Primords (admittedly only seen in an alternate universe).  In the 2nd Doctor's era, a villian plans to drill a hole to the center of the Earth and then pour a lot of water into it....to crack the surface of the Earth.  Which, with the exception of cracking the Earth, is what Doc 10 does in the XMas special.This special also borrowed a bit too heavily from Image of the Fendahl (4th Doctor) for my taste.  The whole "The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout" bit was cute, but what happens when the sun comes out?Re:  The Black Dalek & time travel without a TARDIS, see the final two episodes of Torchwood (or all of Torchwood itself, actually).  Barring a Rift in Time & Space, it is possible that the Dalek Think Tank had something built into their casing similar to the Time Ring employed by the unnamed Time Lord in Genesis of the Daleks.</blockquote>