Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/It Takes You Away

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• The way Graham phrases "another planet", it makes it seem like the comic and novel adventures never happened. Is this perhaps a mistake on the part of the writers of the comics and the writer of the episode?

He’s been to multiple other planets on TV alone, so it seems like he may have just been simplifying things to avoid blowing “Grace”’s mind too much.

• The storyline is similar to the 2009 German movie called The Door/Die Tür. The cave is a path to another world, there is a moth/butterfly in the cave, dead family members are on the other side, and a child realises there is a fake family member .

Not really relevant to the Doctor Who continuity.

Or discontinuity.

• I feel it would have been better if the Doctor had shown the Solitract that she knew what it felt. Something like this,

"I know how you feel. You love the universe, but if you want it to survive and be happy, you have to let it go. In the universe, there are planets, one of which I come from. I loved my people, but they started a war, such a big war, that all of reality was threatened by it. I wanted to save them, but I knew that if they remained, they would be destroyed. So I had to banish them from the universe too. But I did it so that my world, which I loved, could survive, even without me. You have to be strong, and do this too. Please." And THEN the Solitract lets her go. What happened in the episode was OK, but I believe that if the Doctor had related herself, it would have made for a better story.

I would have loved to have seen that.

• When they first meet him, Ribbons says that he dosen’t know where Erik is. Then he notices the sonic and says that he does know where Erik is, and the Doctor trusts him. Why should she trust him if he turned around so quickly? If anything, he's just trying to con them for the sonic.