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

*Since Billy was a policeman when he was sent back to 1969 (lucky he was sent to the same time & place as the Doctor & Martha and not to 1920, hmmm?), neither he, nor the Doctor nor Martha had any resources, no money, no equipment (aside from the screwdriver), no TARDIS. So, how why would the Doctor just happen to be carrying the transcripts with him when the angel zapped him to the past and how did the three of them have the wherewithal to film the conversations that would eventually be put on DVDs? I mean, which part of the transcript came first, Sally's or the Doctor's? It couldn't have been the Doctor's because he was reading from the transcripts he got from Sally. But Sally was responding to what she heard and saw the Doctor say, so her part must have come after his. Causality is so often circular in DW with A causing B and B causing A with nothing ever identified as the original action that began the chain of events.

::the doctor carries a lot of random things in his coat so maybe it's just bigger on the inside like the TARDIS, or maybe something in the transcripts let him know when he should have it on him.  Maybe when he realized he was parking the TARDIS near that house he grabbed the papers just in case he would need them.  Also the transcript was complete at the time he received it, Larry had written in both sides of the conversation and the Doctor just had to read it like a script.  In that way it is a paradox but an apparently harmless one.  Also someone said above that the Doctor may have only been reading and responding to Sally's parts to make the conversation more real and of course got his own responses word for word (as they were his own).  As for wherewithal, the Doctor has been shown to use his sonic screwdriver to get money before.  Maybe he only does that in emergencies or when he doesn't expect to stay long.  Maybe he did that until they could get on their feet (it is kind of cheaty isn't it) which is when Martha gets a job and Billy works at the recording company to help the Doctor and Sally.  Also the Doctor is crafty, we've seen him make devices way ahead of their time using stuff he's scrounged up from junk piles.

*After The Doctor says that Sally needs to get the blue box back he says there is no more to the transcript but she had responded "How? How?" Larry was watching an angel at the time but wouldn't he have written that in later, being so obsessed with completing the transcripts?  Also did Larry write his own responses in?  Because every now and then the Doctor responded to things he had said but Larry never mentions writing what he says down.