Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/The Caretaker
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This page is for discussing the ways in which The Caretaker doesn't fit well with other DWU narratives. You can also talk about the plot holes that render its own, internal narrative confusing.
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- So how does tossing the Skovox Blitzer out of the TARDIS to float in the depths of space and slowly die fit into the Doctor's "I know that you shouldn't be on this planet but I can help you with that" earlier statement, and, in fact, his general ethos? Shouldn't he at least have tried to return it home? Or give it new Orders to be a good flower pot or ATM, at least?
- The Blitzer seems to be less a sentient thing and more a machine/weapon. To leave it deactivated and floating harmless in an isolated part of space seems a reasonable course of action. His earlier offer to "help" it was a last ditch attempt to reason with it when his original plan to toss it into the time vortex had been unwittingly foiled by Danny.
- Considering the Skovox Blitzer was inactive, the Doctor should have returned it to its original planet/species. It is rather uncaring!
- The Blitzer seems to be less a sentient thing and more a machine/weapon. To leave it deactivated and floating harmless in an isolated part of space seems a reasonable course of action. His earlier offer to "help" it was a last ditch attempt to reason with it when his original plan to toss it into the time vortex had been unwittingly foiled by Danny.
- Why is there a chess board and pieces right next to a set of double doors?
- Why can't there be? How is this a plot hole.
- How do the Doctor and Clara escape from the Sand planet at the beginning?
- Not a plot hole, just unseen. Same as the scenes from The Power of Three with Amy, Rory and Eleven.
- Courtney's Parents state Danny Pink was at school a year ago, since they told him that last year he said Courtney was a 'Very Disruptive Influence' however Into the Dalek shows his arrival at the school, the same year as The Caretaker is set.
