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===Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors=== | ===Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors=== | ||
* The vision impairment of the injured Silurian changes between episodes. ''Perhaps an effect of the injury'' | * The vision impairment of the injured Silurian changes between episodes. ''Perhaps an effect of the injury'' | ||
* It was raining when Dr. Quinn arrived but it wasn't raining when the search for the "thing" began or before Dr. Quinn arrived. | * It was raining when Dr. Quinn arrived but it wasn't raining when the search for the "thing" began or before Dr. Quinn arrived. ''It can sometimes start raining spontaneously.'' | ||
* The name 'Silurian' is a misnomer, as scientifically-minded viewers pointed out. The creatures could not have come from the Silurian Period, as reptiles had not yet evolved. In ''[[The Sea Devils]]'' the Third Doctor acknowledges the error by saying the Silurians should be called Paleocenes. But this is incorrect as well, for the Paleocene Epoch marked the beginning of the Age of Mammals. ''It's possible that Time Lords have different names for periods than we do after all they are from a different race.'' ''(The Doctor estimates at that time when they may have been from. The fact that mammals were becoming dominant during the Paleocene Epoch doesn't mean the "Silurians" couldn't have been there as well.)'' | * The name 'Silurian' is a misnomer, as scientifically-minded viewers pointed out. The creatures could not have come from the Silurian Period, as reptiles had not yet evolved. In ''[[The Sea Devils]]'' the Third Doctor acknowledges the error by saying the Silurians should be called Paleocenes. But this is incorrect as well, for the Paleocene Epoch marked the beginning of the Age of Mammals. ''It's possible that Time Lords have different names for periods than we do after all they are from a different race.'' ''(The Doctor estimates at that time when they may have been from. The fact that mammals were becoming dominant during the Paleocene Epoch doesn't mean the "Silurians" couldn't have been there as well.)'' | ||
* The Doctor states that he's thousands of years old, which is inconsistent with the [[Fourth Doctor]]'s later statements of being about 750 years old, or the [[Second Doctor]]'s statement of being only 450 years old soon after his regeneration (there's no indication the Second incarnation lasted for thousands of years). ''The Doctor may have been exaggerating, or basing his age upon the relative age of the Silurians. The Doctor has been caught out lying about his age ([[DW]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation]]''), and age can be interpreted many different ways when you are both a time traveler and an alien.'' | * The Doctor states that he's thousands of years old, which is inconsistent with the [[Fourth Doctor]]'s later statements of being about 750 years old, or the [[Second Doctor]]'s statement of being only 450 years old soon after his regeneration (there's no indication the Second incarnation lasted for thousands of years). ''The Doctor may have been exaggerating, or basing his age upon the relative age of the Silurians. The Doctor has been caught out lying about his age ([[DW]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation]]''), and age can be interpreted many different ways when you are both a time traveler and an alien.'' | ||
* According to the story, the moon was originally a huge | * According to the story, the moon was originally a huge meteoroid that ended up in orbit around Earth in the early Cenozoic Era, but actually the moon is about as old as the Earth, and actually resulted from a planet-sized object hitting it. | ||
==Continuity== | ==Continuity== | ||
