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*In ''[[Father's Day]]'' The Reapers turned up due to Rose saving her father when somebody who was dead is now alive - surely this should be the case now for Yuri and Mia as they should have died but are now alive. ''The Reapers only showed up in Fathers Day due to Rose saving her father's life, as then, that altered the timeline meaning that in the future Rose wouldn't have travelled to the past to save her father, causing a paradox, the Doctor only changed the future when he saved Adelaide's life. Had Adelaide's granddaughter travelled back in time to save her grandmother, for instance, that would more likely have caught the Reapers' attention. Also, as Adelaide almost immediately kills herself, thereby maintaining the timeline save for relatively minor alterations, there was no need for the Reapers to appear.'' | *In ''[[Father's Day]]'' The Reapers turned up due to Rose saving her father when somebody who was dead is now alive - surely this should be the case now for Yuri and Mia as they should have died but are now alive. ''The Reapers only showed up in Fathers Day due to Rose saving her father's life, as then, that altered the timeline meaning that in the future Rose wouldn't have travelled to the past to save her father, causing a paradox, the Doctor only changed the future when he saved Adelaide's life. Had Adelaide's granddaughter travelled back in time to save her grandmother, for instance, that would more likely have caught the Reapers' attention. Also, as Adelaide almost immediately kills herself, thereby maintaining the timeline save for relatively minor alterations, there was no need for the Reapers to appear.'' | ||
*The news article on Adelaide claims that she was born in 1999 and yet was also 10 when her parents died in 2008. '' | *The news article on Adelaide claims that she was born in 1999 and yet was also 10 when her parents died in 2008. ''The events of [[DW]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'' took place in 2009, which would make Adelaide 10 years-old.'' | ||
*The news article identifies ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'' as occuring in 2008, instead of 2009 (as the show's been a year ahead since ''[[Aliens of London]]''). ''The production team have deliberately stated that Series Three occurs within a space of a few days to rectify the year-off discrepancy that Aliens of London introduced, so the Whoniverse timeline is in sync with ours again.'' ''(Two explanations: either the article we were "seeing" had some sort of typo, or the events of ''The Stolen Earth'' actually did happen in 2008.)'' | *The news article identifies ''[[The Stolen Earth]]'' as occuring in 2008, instead of 2009 (as the show's been a year ahead since ''[[Aliens of London]]''). ''The production team have deliberately stated that Series Three occurs within a space of a few days to rectify the year-off discrepancy that Aliens of London introduced, so the Whoniverse timeline is in sync with ours again.'' ''(Two explanations: either the article we were "seeing" had some sort of typo, or the events of ''The Stolen Earth'' actually did happen in 2008.)'' | ||
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*The article on Susie Fontana Brooke's first "Faster then Light" flight lists Adelaide's team at the end as hers. | *The article on Susie Fontana Brooke's first "Faster then Light" flight lists Adelaide's team at the end as hers. | ||
*Why would the Doctor comment on Mia's age when Roman is two years younger than her? '' | *Why would the Doctor comment on Mia's age when Roman is two years younger than her? ''Mia appears much younger, and the Doctor's ongoing interest in female companions would suggest additional sympathy for her.'' | ||
*When it is revealed that Maggie is one of the creatures, the outer shot shows her hair back while in the closer shot, it is around her face. | *When it is revealed that Maggie is one of the creatures, the outer shot shows her hair back while in the closer shot, it is around her face. | ||
*Why didn't the Doctor simply take the crew into the distant future or the distant past? History would have been preserved as the records would show the crew were killed in the nuclear explosion. ''At this point the Doctor wasn't just concerned with saving the crew - he was, as he said, fighting the very laws of time themselves. In that state of mine, delivering the crew to another point in time would not have been as great a victory for him. He ''wanted'' to break the laws of time. Likely he felt that doing so successfully would mean he could also delay or prevent his own death, which has been foreshadowed in several episodes leading up to ''[[The End of Time]]''.'' | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
