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=== Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors === | === Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors === | ||
*It ''appears'' that Jenny regenerates as a substance similar to the vortex energy or the terraforming gas escapes from her mouth. However her body does not change. ''She did not actually regenerate. The Doctor regrew his hand in ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'', as a Time Lord has great capacity for self-repair shortly after a full regeneration. | *It ''appears'' that Jenny regenerates as a substance similar to the vortex energy or the terraforming gas escapes from her mouth. However her body does not change. ''She did not actually regenerate. The Doctor regrew his hand in ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'', as a Time Lord has great capacity for self-repair shortly after a full regeneration. It is more likely Jenny internally healed herself as she was probably within the first fifteen minutes of her life. The writers purposely left her revival unanswered to allow the viewers to decide what happened.'' | ||
*When Donna listens for Jenny's heart beat with the stethoscope she has two. Time Lords only grow a second heart after regeneration. | *When Donna listens for Jenny's heart beat with the stethoscope she has two. Time Lords only grow a second heart after regeneration. ([[MA]]: ''[[The Man in the Velvet Mask]]'') ''It should be noted that the cannonicity of the spinoff material is always in question. Or it may be because she was created from a Time Lord who has already regenerated (I.E. The Tenth Doctor would have had the DNA of someone with two hearts.)'' | ||
*During one scene in the tunnels of Messaline, the UNIT logo can be seen in the background.''Possibly UNIT is still operational at this time. The Torchwood Institute was briefly mentioned in the far future in [[DW]] [[The Impossible Planet]] '' | *During one scene in the tunnels of Messaline, the UNIT logo can be seen in the background.''Possibly UNIT is still operational at this time. The Torchwood Institute was briefly mentioned in the far future in [[DW]] [[The Impossible Planet]] '' | ||
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*Some would argue that it is improbable that the Hath would so quickly come to trust Martha, given that she is the same species that they are at war against. ''However Martha had helped Peck whereas most of the other humans could have killed him. Therefore they quickly identified that she was different. It also was necessary from a narrative standpoint, to allow the audience to quickly grasp that the Hath are different to the monsters General Cobb makes them out to be.'' | *Some would argue that it is improbable that the Hath would so quickly come to trust Martha, given that she is the same species that they are at war against. ''However Martha had helped Peck whereas most of the other humans could have killed him. Therefore they quickly identified that she was different. It also was necessary from a narrative standpoint, to allow the audience to quickly grasp that the Hath are different to the monsters General Cobb makes them out to be.'' | ||
*The TARDIS's telepathic circuits do not translate what the Hath are saying to the audience but Martha is able to speak to them and know that the Hath she travels around with is called Peck. '' | *The TARDIS's telepathic circuits do not translate what the Hath are saying to the audience but Martha is able to speak to them and know that the Hath she travels around with is called Peck. ''The reason it was not translated to the audience is a choice by the producers to add comic relief that Martha is the only one who can understand them and translate what they are saying. For example when Peck swears and she tells him to watch his language.'' | ||
*All Jenny's knowledge and abilities were given to her by the machine she was born in. This may include her gymnastics skills. It is never explained why the other soldiers do not have the same ability. ''The extent of Jenny's gymnastic skills are likely to be as the result of being a Time Lady rather than a human | *All Jenny's knowledge and abilities were given to her by the machine she was born in. This may include her gymnastics skills. It is never explained why the other soldiers do not have the same ability. ''Jenny is more physically able than the other soldiers as her gymnastic skills clearly go far beyond that of almost any human. The extent of Jenny's gymnastic skills are likely to be as the result of being a Time Lady rather than a human.'' | ||
*It is not explained how Jenny would know how to fly a shuttle as the machines embedded military knowledge but not the knowledge of how to fly a space shuttle. ''This may be an example of Jenny's Time Lord heritage. Many times the Doctor has worked things out as he's gone along. Jenny is likely to be doing the same thing | *It is not explained how Jenny would know how to fly a shuttle as the machines embedded military knowledge but not the knowledge of how to fly a space shuttle because the people had mythologised their own history making it unlikely they would have felt the need to know how to fly a shuttle. ''This may be an example of Jenny's Time Lord heritage. Many times the Doctor has worked things out as he's gone along. Jenny is likely to be doing the same thing.'' | ||
*Four apparent facts cannot all be true at once: (a) the war has only been going on for seven days; (b) General Cobb knows about The Source and its purpose only by hearsay passed on through the generations; (c) General Cobb is in his late forties or his fifties; and (d) offspring produced by the machine emerge with the bodies and personalities of human beings in their early twenties. If Cobb is as old as he looks, he ought to have been a member of the original landing party, in which case he would know what the Source really is. ''Russell T Davies suggested in the pod cast for the episode that, as well as creating a child from a parent, the machines were be able to clone important figures. Therefore Cobb could be the fifth Cobb of that week. As well as the fact that Jenny is around 20yrs old straight away implying some sort of forced aging process. Or Cobb could be delusional and lying, evidence his otherwise inexplicable murder of Jenny.'' | *Four apparent facts cannot all be true at once: (a) the war has only been going on for seven days; (b) General Cobb knows about The Source and its purpose only by hearsay passed on through the generations; (c) General Cobb is in his late forties or his fifties; and (d) offspring produced by the machine emerge with the bodies and personalities of human beings in their early twenties. If Cobb is as old as he looks, he ought to have been a member of the original landing party, in which case he would know what the Source really is. ''Russell T Davies suggested in the pod cast for the episode that, as well as creating a child from a parent, the machines were be able to clone important figures. Therefore Cobb could be the fifth Cobb of that week. As well as the fact that Jenny is around 20yrs old straight away implying some sort of forced aging process. Or Cobb could be delusional and lying, evidence his otherwise inexplicable murder of Jenny.'' | ||
*Near the end of the episode, a softbox light can be seen inside the TARDIS, lighting the set.'' | *Near the end of the episode, a softbox light can be seen inside the TARDIS, lighting the set.''That could be explained in-universe as the way the doctor likes to light the TARDIS but the point is valid nonetheless.'' | ||
*If the Hath are half fish, | *If the Hath are half fish, why did [[Hath Peck]] die in the tar pit? ''Because the Hath naturally breath the green fluid in their masks, tar would kill Peck them as it would Martha.'' | ||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
