Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/Time and the Rani: Difference between revisions

*The Doctor is wounded enough to regenerate during The Rani's TARDIS shoot-down, but Mel is barely stunned.

::They are on different sides of the console, and he hit his head on the console; sometimes a car accident that barely scratches one person is fatal to someone sitting next to them.

*How can the Doctor not realise that Mel's face is different from the real Mel's face?

* The Doctor says that both he and the Rani are 953 years old. However, he has no way of knowing her age at this point, considering they are both time-travellers.

::Before Russell T. Davies' infamous "900" quote, Time Lords did know. No matter where they went, they were still in synch with their TARDISes. Even if the Time Lord lost track, the TARDIS would be able to measure how much time had passed. Not in "calendar time". So, as a purely hypothetical example, if a Time Lord spends 6 months on Earth, 3 months on Telos, a month on Skaro, 6 weeks on Peladon, and two weeks Mars, then the TARDIS keeps track that a year has passed. The other thing was that prior to the Virgin Books, a Time Lord could only return to Gallifrey after an equivalent amount of time had lapsed. So, using another purely hypothetical example, if a Time Lord leaves Gallifrey on the first day of the month, and spends ten days on Karn, when they return, they could only return to Gallifrey on the eleventh day of the same month. So however much real time passes for the Time Lord is synched up with Gallifrey linear time. And again, prior to the Wilderness Years, that synched up relative time also related to Time Lords meeting each other. Of course, these rules were all thrown out the window by the Virgin Books line.

* Why is the Rani's TARDIS located so far, or indeed, any distance from her headquarters?

::Considering what happened last time she met the Doctor, wouldn't she want to keep her Tardis as far away from the Doctor as possible?

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