Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/The Doctor's Daughter: Difference between revisions

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::Very low blood pressure can account for no obvious bleeding out in this situation, also the Doctor didn't bleed when his hand was cut out, it may be something related to the residual regeneration energy.

::When he said that during "The Stolen Earth" it wasn't meant that he wasn't literally only a kid in relation to his current age Time Lords seem to go through childhood in a similar way to humans as seen in [[The Sound of Drums]] or any episode with [[Susan Foreman]], the Doctor's Granddaughter. Besides which, the machines would logically go by biological age rather than counting the years.

::The shot only shows the Doctor heading towards the door, and he has kept his coat near the door.

::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 hours of her life. Alternatively, she may have been able to restart herself similar to what the Doctor did in The Shakespeare Code.

:::No, the scene was deliberately designed in such a way that it could have been either the gas or her regeneration energy. RTD talked about the fact that they shot her revival to look somewhat like a regeneration but not identical, for exactly this reason.

::Perhaps UNIT had something to do with the tunnels of Messaline.

::As RTD suggested in the commentary, in the future they have self-healing fabrics.

::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. Also, it tells the audience that the Hath 'bubble' rather than speak in words.

::This is more likely a Time Lord ability than a human one. The Ninth Doctor has a similar ability shown in ''[[The End of the World (TV story)|The End of the World]]'' where he momentarily increases his perception so as to dodge fast moving fan blades. The Doctor hasn't developed this potential talent to its fullest, but Jenny has (the physical aspects of her programming would help there). Similarly, the Master is more skilled than the Doctor at hypnosis and Susan was said in [[TV]]: "[[The Sensorites]]" to have a particular knack for telepathy. Jenny also states that she is in peak physical condition, which might explain why the Doctor wouldn't be able to do it, but she would.

::Militants today even have some basic knowledge of how to fly an aircraft even if they aren't in a division that requires it. Its mostly just for emergencies so why should the colonists be any different.

::Cobb was not in his forties or fifties. He was created by the machine to be a general and thus "born old". As to the apparent discrepancy in the first two, the Doctor explains at the end of the episode that both can be true because the war burns through several generations in a day.

::In other words, it's (d). Privates emerge with 25-year-old bodies, generals emerge with 45-year-old bodies.

::There is constant fighting in close quarters, with huge numbers of combatants on both sides. It is quite possible.

::A very bad guard. But he does believe that they are pacifists and thus are no threat and have no weapons.

::The conversation on the phone was traced to The Hath as seen in one of the cut scenes

::Unless you believe this was intentionally meant to represent a softbox light being inside the TARDIS, this is clearly a production error, not a plot discontinuity.

::They were preparing for an attack just before the Hath attacked, suggesting that they knew an attack was coming and had no time to process Donna or Martha. Moreover Cline appeared to prompt Jenny to see if she knew what she was doing just before the attack. All these factors probably distracted them from the processing of Donna and Martha.

::There's no reason a machine capable of fabricating a complete adult body wouldn't also be capable of fabricating clothes around it.

::She is not a Time Lord, as is stated explicitly. She is physically based on his DNA, but does not have Time Lord training nor all of the inherent mental connections.

::Also, he's been wrong about this in other cases. In fact, at this point, the question is more why someone as intelligent and self-aware as the Doctor seems to believe he has this ability that he clearly doesn't.

::She's just beginning the journey, she could certainly upgrade the shuttle or find another ship as the journey continues.

::By showing a young Master with the appearance of a child in [[The Sound of Drums]], the current production team may have shown that they do not consider the Looms to exist in official continuity, at least not exactly as described in novels such as [[PROSE]]: [[Lungbarrow]]. In other words, the implication is that Time Lords reproduce sexually and always have.

::Even if Lungbarrow were canonical, "natural" would mean being loomed out of the genetic pattern of a House, not cloned from the DNA of a single person, and it would mean only producing a new cousin under specific circumstances, not creating them willy-nilly. So, his statement would still make sense.

* If the progenation machine generates clothing as well, why wouldn't it just generate the same uniform for Jenny as the other soldiers?

::The machine that birthed Jenny was in a different area from the main human base. It's possible that different machines were configured to produce different uniforms to distinguish different units. Having different machines clearly mark their "products" in such a way could also be helpful if a production error needed to be traced to a specific origin.

::All the soldiers are born with a complete military training as well as a militaristic mindset. It's hardly that much of a stretch they were born with an understanding of night, and an appropriate mindset.