More Plot Holes than You Can Back a Big Yellow Truck Through
AKA: Top Thirty Plot Holes of Stolen Earth/Journey's End
As per the request of TCASM, and in no particular chronological order. Send yours in today!
1. Since when have Daleks, even bloody mad Daleks, EVER been able to control time and space in any way?
2. If they were being pulled in by a signal from Torchwood, shouldn't the TARDIS have landed in Cardiff, possibly even inside the Hub, where they would have become trapped?
3. They opened the Rift. Jack had a vast amount of security on that thing, and then they opened it the first time and let out a demon. So he made it EASIER for them to open it again later? What happened to the retina scans, changing his password, any of that?
4. So Donna's had her memories erased. Great. So what exactly does she think happened to Lance?
5. The TARDIS dies in the Parallel world. It cost the Doctor ten years of his life and took twelve hours last time. This time he just popped in, dropped off his evil!twin and left. How does that work?
6. So what WAS the point of the Medusa Cascade, then? Just to be there? Whooper-doo.
7. If one TARDIS can move the entirety of the planet Earth, why didn't they just hitch Gallifrey up to a few of them and move it some where BEFORE the Doctor could burn it down?
8. The Doctor has personally destroyed the entire Dalek race at least twice in canon. The Time Lords once SENT him to murder the entire Dalek race in their cradles. And it's suddenly wrong because...?
9. The Valiant should have been the first thing the Daleks attacked and the last thing that went down. Saxon designed it, even if he used human materials to put it together. That makes it Gallifreyan tech, and possibly a Time War artifact, but either way a more dangerous enemy than the rest.
10. The regeneration. Why does that suddenly blast off enough energy to light up the room like New Years Eve at a munitions factory? (Thanks, Melinda Kitty.) Nine's was explicable. Ten's abortive was NOT.
11. If a regeneration DOES make it possible for a human to end up as bits of a Time Lord, then why didn't Ben & Polly, Tegan, Nyssa, & Peri also end up as Time Lordish people? They, too, were touching the Doctor at regenerations.
12. Speaking of which, where WERE the other "Children of Time" anyway? The Brigadier, at least? Ian & Barbara, Victoria, Ben & Polly, Tegan, Liz, Harry, Mike, John Benton, ACE?
13. So the Daleks moved, attacked, and conquered the entire planet Earth, just to round up about twenty people to disintegrate when testing the reality bomb. This is overkill. Daleks are meant to be logical. Seems like an awful lot of trouble for no reason.
14. Yet, the Daleks in charge thought they were trying to hide this from the Doctor. Excuse me, isn't just taking the Earth, never mind messing it up, like ASKING the Doctor to fix your little red wagon?
15. They wiped out all of Earth's military - they did attack all military bases, and shoot everything alive. So Earth is now, pretty much, unarmed.
16. Which makes Martha Jones just about the highest ranking active duty officer on the entire planet. And she's going to hide in a hole under Cardiff? And they're going to LET her??
17. The Doctor tried to save Davros. Claims he did during the Time War, and definitely did during this incident. Why, exactly? Every single TIME you take your eyes off of him, he spawns an entire flotilla of violently rabid xenophobic racial supremacists. The functional definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
18. Towering hypocrisy enough to make even a Time Lord blush: Davros, who just tried to wipe out the entire unblessed multi-verse proclaims the Doctor to be the "Destroyer of Worlds".
19. Who exactly invented that Dimensional Cannon? Because there was no one in the entire Universe of Pete's World who wanted the thing to actually succeed, except Rose Tyler, but for some unfathomable reason, Torchwood diverted man hours and resources to creating it?
20. How did Jackie Tyler, even with Mickey escorting her, manage to get into the Torchwood arsenal, arm herself, and transport herself across Universes, just to scold her daughter and demand she come home for dinner? (Incidentally, Jackie Tyler with a gun? Who's nightmare was THAT?? Besides Nine's, I mean, as he would be cowering in a corner and possibly whimpering at the thought.)
21. Jack's clothes apparently acquire immortality by proxy. They stuffed him into an incinerator, after all.
22. Twenty nuclear warheads, even absurdly powerful ones, even placed in fault lines, would wreck the Earth, not destroy it.
23. Sarah Jane Smith decided to drive (through an invasion) from Croydon to where ever the TARDIS was. Which location she couldn't have known, correct? She's crazy about the Doctor, but not that crazy.
24. The Master's had physical contact with that hand. Even if he did nothing to it, it doesn't bode well, does it?
25. River Song gave an awful lot of nothing away, and whinged about everything she saw. Yet she made no comment about the Doctor in a blue suit. However, the blue suit has gone to live in the parallel Universe. Curiouser and curiouser.
26. If the Universe Walls have gone through retro-closure, does that mean many other things will have retroactively not happened? Or does that just mean that the Multi-verse retroactively repaired itself? If it did retro-actively repair itself, then will it allow a fundamental Universal Law violation like the Doctor!Too, effectively a second Doctor, to exist?
27. If a human/Time Lord meta-crisis isn't possible, then what's going to happen to the Doctor!Too?
28. If a human body cannot support a Time Lord brain, but the Doctor!Too is half-human, can he survive? Theoretically, to be Time Lord enough to support that brain, he'll need that binary cardiovascular system. Even if he doesn't, won't the body reject the brain? Or, possibly, the Time Lord systems repair themselves?
29. If Donna being a temporary Time Lord is what made it possible/necessary to keep her and the Doctor together, then at what point was Rose Tyler's extensive intervention in Turn Left required, if any?
30. Speaking of which, Rose managed to fly across Universes, find the correct one, pop backward and forward through time (only possible explanation for knowing about/arranging the winning raffle ticket), take over UNIT without giving her name, dismantle the TARDIS, talk what was left of Her into helping her, build a mirror that shows things in flux, build a time machine, arrange a traffic accident to save the Universe (takes after her Dad?), persuade Donna Noble to suicide, and set off the Bad Wolf warning enough that even the TARDIS wore it. Then she meekly went back to the Parallel Universe to become wife/jailer to the Next to the Last of the Time Lords. How does one logically equate to the other?
