Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/Time Heist: Difference between revisions

::Well, there's the ''usual'' explaination, the ontological paradox, old as Oedipus and particularly loved by Moffat and his gang: the Doctor hires three other people because Karabraxos tells him that he "robbed/will rob" the bank with three other people, on the solar flare day, with the lead pipe (no, sorry, that was from [[The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)|another story]]).

*Suspension of disbelief is important in stories, and even more important in science fiction: we need to believe the Doctor's world is real even if we know it's not, BUT that world must be consistent. At the beginning of the episode the writers 1) remove the magic blue box from the game (''as usual'', to show the audience that Doctor is really in dire straits), and 2) they establish that Karabraxos is the ''most secure bank in the universe''. But THEN they destroy all suspension of disbelief with the '''teleporters'''! WHY on <s>Krop Tor</s>Hell is Karabraxos known as the ''most secure bank in the universe'', when you can sneak in and out at will with a friggin' '''pocket teleporter'''? And if it is so easy for the Doctor to get a whole briefcase of pocket teleporters, why he never used them before or after this adventure? (out-of-universe: of course, because the TARDIS and the sonic gadgets are already overpowered game-breaking tools, and pocket teleporters would be just too much, that's why the writes made him disable Jack's vortex manipulator: Jack already had a story-breaking superpower, immortality).