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

::This cannot be, as the room reset each time.  

::: What OP means is where would the clothes have come from the first time the Doctor came. This is a good question -- the Doctor finding his clothes there suggest that those are the clothes left by the last Doctor. Thus perpetually the Doctor is putting his clothes there and picking up the wardrobe of his predecessor. But if there were no clothes the first time, the Doctor would and could not have left his clothing there. Various things could explain this tho. There could have been extra clothing in that room and the loop would still work, as this room clearly is one of the ones exempt from the reset. So a clown outfit could have been there and the room wouldn't put the clown outfit back because it doesn't reset. Or maybe there's clothes hidden elsewhere in the room that the Doctor doesn't find in all cases past the first one because he doesn't need to. Or possibly the first time he stripped his clothes down without another wardrobe and spent the rest of the episode after that point naked. I prefer the later possibility, and will now accept it as head canon.

::: And that's basically what the above explanation says - the first version leaves his clothes there, goes wandering about with out them (possibly naked, possibly still in undergarments), and the next version of the Doctor finds them.

:: Thanks for the answers, except I think the costume room does reset, as otherwise the fire in the fireplace would've gone out many years ago. I do like the idea of him finding some other clothes somewhere in the room or the castle (there was a bed, and food, could easily be a wardrobe too), and as you said, after leaving his own costume there for the first time, he never needed any other clothes to look for. And the costume doesn't reset because it is indeed something that the Doctor brought with him, foreign material and stuff. Seems legit for me.