Quote: Tursiops @ September 9 2012, 12:18 PM BSTVillains not being able to shoot straight when heroes are escaping is accepted (though even the dreary Star Wars recognised that this stretched credibility.) What made this a particular stretch was that the escape took forever and the robots were shooting from such close range. The whole episode was more farce than adventure, resulting in a complete lack of tension and drama, even when the Doctor is apparently so outraged angry that he does not hesitate to commit cold-blooded murder.
Of course the really murderous person was the military lady who launched the missiles anyway to blow up a spaceship, and the Doctor & anyone else there, merely because the thing was too close to Earth. It was not known to be crashing and incidentally if it was going to crash into Earth, what's the point of launching missiles which, even if they were 10 times as big as current H-bombs, would merely break up a ship "as big as Canada" into pretty big bits which would do almighty damage to Earth in any case.