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

::::Surely, he would have to conceal the tools on his person. The Teller would have detected the deception.

*Suspension of disbelief is important in stories, and even more important in science fiction: we need to believe the Doctor's world is real even if we know it's not, BUT that world must be consistent. At the beginning of the episode the writers 1) remove the magic blue box from the game (''as usual'', to show the audience that Doctor is really in dire straits), and 2) they establish that Karabraxos is the ''most secure bank in the universe''. But THEN they destroy all suspension of disbelief with the '''teleporters'''! WHY on <s>Krop Tor</s>Hell is Karabraxos known as the ''most secure bank in the universe'', when you can sneak in and out at will with a friggin' '''pocket teleporter'''? And if it is so easy for the Doctor to get a whole briefcase of pocket teleporters, why he never used them before or after this adventure? (out-of-universe: of course, because the TARDIS and the sonic gadgets are already overpowered game-breaking tools, and pocket teleporters would be just too much, that's why the writes made him disable Jack's vortex manipulator: Jack already had a story-breaking superpower, immortality).

::Just because people say it's the most secure bank in the universe doesn't necessarily make it true.

:::Yes, "''most'' secure" is certainly advertisement boasting, but I'm sure the rich customers require a certain level of security beyond simple advertisement. A telepathic guard (''one'' single telepathic guard, for crying out loud) is ridiculously useless in an universe where pocket teleportes, transmat rays, vortex manipulators and other similar gadgets exist. So the pocket teleporters are a very bad plot device (even worse than the usual "foolish wand-waving" with the screwdriver that fixes everything if the plot requires, and fixes nothing if the plot requires): "oh, too bad, we can't use the TARDIS... but we can ***-pull a briefcase of pocket teleporters with the label "this is not a deus ex machina". There's a good (in-universe and out-of-universe) reason if Harry Potter does not simply teleport out of Gringotts :)