Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/The Ghost Monument

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• The planet has three suns and yet only one shadow is cast by the spaceship.

Could be the other two suns have different properties to normal suns or they are just hallucinations made for the sake of the game.

• The Doctor lends Graham her sunglasses, claiming she got them from Pythagoras. However, she said she lost all her belongings when falling from the TARDIS in Twice Upon a Time. Therefore, how can they be Pythagoras'? The Doctor lying again?

Perhaps they somehow found there way into the charity shop the Doctor got her clothes in, she found them, recognised them as belonging to either Pythagoras or Audrey Hepburn when she met them and bought them as well.

The line is that they are 'like' an old pair of The Doctor's. Perhaps she picked them up at the charity shop because they reminded her of the ones she got from Audrey Hepburn or Pythagoras.

She fell to Earth with the Twelth Doctor's clothes on. The Doctor seems to create a "bigger on the inside" effect for all her/his pockets, so he/she could have had all manner of things in there, including the sunglasses.

• The Doctor says the atmosphere is toxic, yet everyone breathes it without any ill effects.

Something to do with the implants from the ships’ medi-pods, perhaps? It would make sense if they knew they were going to be landing there.

She did say they'd be dead within one rotation - maybe it just kills you slowly with the effects not becoming apparent for a while?

• At the start of the episode, the Doctor set the teleporter to track the TARDIS' energy and teleport them there, so why didn't they teleport directly to the Ghost Monument?

Because Desolation had fallen out of orbit. They teleported to where the TARDIS should have been, but wasn’t any more.

• Why can’t the Doctor just reuse the 5 minute EMP every 5 minutes?

Because she never needed to and it only worked on the droids.