Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/The Two Doctors

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• If the scientists aren't Humans or Androgums then what are they?

They could be other species working on the station.

• The Sontaran scout ships are called battle cruisers by the space station's computer.

The computer may not have any other information on Sontaran ships.

The size of the ships is not apparent on the screen. All Sontaran ships may be built to the same unimaginative, functional pattern, regardless of size (with the possible exception of the anonymous vessel they use to sneak their advance forces onto Gallifrey in "The Invasion of Time").

• Despite being a recluse, Dona Arana is able to supply Shockeye with a current list of Seville restaurants.
• Dastari and the Androgums apparently speak English (according to the Dona Arana's comment on meeting them) despite being aliens who have never visited Earth before.
• The Second Doctor was sent to Chimera by the Time Lords. However the Time Lords did not know where the Doctor was and Jamie had not heard of the Time Lords until The War Games.

This is the reason for Season 6B theory.

An alternative explanation might be derived from the implication in "The Deadly Assassin" that the Doctor, even during his period of exile, was working for the Celestial Intervention Agency, who see to act somewhat outside the normal boundaries of Time Lord law.

• So what is and is not true about what the Sixth Doctor said about the time capsule, when he knew he was being overhead by the General? He seems to imply to Jamie that he was making a lot of it up, but his actions seem to imply that what he said about needing to prime the cabinet was all true.

Most of it was true, with the exception of the fact that he had sabotaged the machine.

• The Sixth Doctor hearing the Spanish church bell ring, as he linked minds with the Second Doctor while on the spacestation, might give him the location and approximate distance of his past self from it, but not a compass direction - i.e. Is the Second Doctor being held north, east, south or west of the bell? So how does the Sixth Doctor know where on the search radius to land the TARDIS?
• Would Jamie really have reverted to such a feral state after having been abandoned on the station... and then recover his civility so quickly?
• The concept of the Sixth Doctor slowly becoming an Androgum makes no sense. If what happens to the Second Doctor affects the Sixth then, the Sixth Doctor would not have gotten to this stage of his life - i.e. meeting Peri, coming after his own self, and everything else in between. The whole course of his life would have changed.

It's a matter of proximity, and that these two points in the Doctor's life are in the same time zone. Additionally, the Sixth Doctor had just recently made a psychic connection with the Second Doctor.

• Many viewers were shocked by the Sixth Doctor killing Shockeye in so direct a manner. This was completely contradictory to the characters of the previous and future regenerations. Other Doctors had killed before, but in self-defence or by accident. But the Sixth Doctor directly kills a humanoid by pressing a cyanide-soaked handkerchief to his face.

This isn't the first time; see below for other examples.

Bearing in mind Shockeye has made a concerted effort at devouring both Jamie and Peri for no better reason than culinary curiosity, even the Doctor might be excused for warming to the concept of justifiable homicide.

• Stike implied that the self-destruct mechanism on his ship would wipe out the surrounding area, including the hacienda. But when it did go off, it only resulted in a minor explosion, too small and far away from the hacienda to do any real damage.
  • That's fine; Stike either lied or erred.