Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/The Doctor Dances

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• The phrase Schlechter Wolf, "Worse or Inferior Wolf", on the bomb is a direct and literal translation of Bad Wolf, but the German term is Böser Wolf, "Evil or Bad Wolf".

The person who put that there may be able to see the whole of time and space, but that doesn't make them a linguist.

• If Jack's Vortex Manipulator is working well enough to transport him from a space station in the year 200,100 to Earth in 1869, why doesn't he just use it to time-jump off of his exploding Chula warship?

People forget things under stress, and it's possible the ship was somehow attached to the device anyway.

It is perfectly possible that the vortex manipulator had broken, just as it would after the jump from the spaceship, or that it didn't receive this ability until later.

• If the nanogenes are so advanced and, indeed, so small, why could they not have scanned Jamie's genetic structure and ascertained what a Human should look like?

Jamie was dead and the Doctor reasons that he was probably killed earlier that day so there wasn't much left of him to scan.

If Jamie was dead, his cells in his body would be dying off. The nanogenes may have chosen to heal him first than to risk his cells fully dying first, something which they may not have been able to fix.

• If "dance" is a metaphor for sex, then why after discussing it do the Doctor and Rose literally dance?

Rose commented on the fact that Jack physically danced with her, so the Doctor wished to prove that he could too. Since Rose then had an attraction towards Jack, partially for the dancing, they then used "dance" as the metaphor. Had Jack cooked for Rose, they would have probably used the word "cook" instead.