Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/The Rings of Akhaten

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• How does Clara suddenly knows how to fly the alien moped?

By watching the Doctor, or there were instructions.

• Why exactly do all the aliens suddenly starting singing wake up, when the old god is awoken, what exact purpose does it serve? And how do they suddenly all know it?

I think that it can be attributed to some kind of telepathic field. Queen was shown as possesing remarkable psychic skills (holding Clara with her mind) - and the whole ritual is more magic than science.

• How can the song travel through space to the old god in the first place? And how come they can hear each other so well, on different asteroids, despite being at least several miles apart?

Possibly their voices were amplified, and heard through an air corridor?

Or the song was partially psychic (a.k.a. science-fiction magic) in nature ?

• How were the aliens, the doctor and clara on the asteroids able to breath in space?? and how were the doctor and Clara able to breath when they were on the moped??

Asteroid field could have an atmosphere. It's not impossible.

the moped could have it's own micro atmosphere.

• At the end of the episode, the doctor causes the God akhaten to implode. But wern't the asteriods in orbit around it?? Surly they are now just drifting endlessly through space???
• What happened to translation circuit ? Is it not working for Clara because "Tardis doesn't like her" or (more probable) just because they wanted to show how "alien" alien marketplace was ? It worked for human-like aliens then. Behavior of translation circuit in this episode was very erratic at best...
  • The exact rules for the translation circuit have never been established, it seems to stop working when ever the doctor wants to show off his Omni-lingual skills, when ever he speaks any language no one can understand him who doesn't also speak that language.