Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/The Doctor Dances


 * The phrase Schlechter Wolf ("Worse or Inferior Wolf") on the bomb is a direct and literal translation of Bad Wolf, but the German term is Böser Wolf ("Evil or Bad Wolf").
 * The person who put that there may be able to see the whole of time and space, but that doesn't make them a linguist.


 * If Jack's Vortex Manipulator is working well enough to transport him from a space station in the year 200,100 to Earth in 1869, why doesn't he just use it to time-jump off of his exploding Chula warship?
 * People forget things under stress, and it's possible the ship was somehow attached to the device anyway. Also, it's perfectly possible the vortex manipulator didn't receive this ability until later.


 * If the nanogenes are so advanced (and, indeed, so small), why could they not have scanned Jamie's genetic structure and ascertained what a human should look like?
 * Jamie was dead and the Doctor reasons that he was probably killed earlier that day so there wasn't much left of him to scan.


 * In some scenes at the railway station, the logo of the UK's main railway company British Railways can be seen on rolling stock, a company which wasn't formed until 1948.
 * The Whoniverse is different from the Real World and Time is in Flux.
 * Isn't it kind of a cop-out to say that? After all, you could say that to most anachronisms and continuity errors in this show, but it doesn't make them any less of one.