Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/Let's Kill Hitler


 * Why would Adolf Hitler, head of an organisation that belive all things other than there own is inferior, carry a British Wembly revolver, rather than a standard German Lugar?
 * Maybe he decided to keep a British gun as an antique.


 * Being shot repeatedly by bullets has no apparant effect on the robot, but later, it is knocked over, by simply being punched in the head? Surely at the least the bullets would have knocked to the ground?
 * Though slightly more reaction to the bullet might have been expected, the difference in effect would be like that between a barn getting a cannonball shot through its wall and having a hurricaine blow it over. Bullets are most effective on beings with nervous systems and squishy, irreplacable organs.


 * For someone who is smart enough, to quickly disable every weapon in the room, and out think River several times, it seems abit odd that the doctor did not think, that her lipstick would be a bit dodgy, expecially since this plot device has been used for over sixty years, and he already knows that River uses dodgy lipstick.
 * He probably was too busy at the time and didn't notice.


 * Would they really build robots who don't recognise there masters?
 * They were designed to kill unauthorised people. This would stop people from entering areas they weren't allowed it. Or, for killing people who have been abducted.


 * It looks like River has now become 'good' after realising she is important to the doctor. so when exactly does she kill the doctor, or is is not river who kills him?
 * Just because, you can over come brainwashing, it doesn't mean its gone, her desires to kill him, may reserface at a later date.
 * Especially since it's pretty clear that she's at least a little crazy, and the Silence are still out there to manipulate her whenever she's separated from him, and even before all this we saw how inconsistent she could be.
 * She may have killed him at some point in her past.


 * Given that the "Doctor's death" is a Fixed point in time (pardon, suddenly I don't remember who said that), doesn't that definition mean that if River doesn't kill him then someone else will (at that exact time)? In any event, what we saw was a slow moving Astronaut: not very much like River (but perhaps she was having a hard time moving, or was a younger earlier regeneration of herself, or someone else that everyone assumes was River) and that River shot at herself DW:The Impossible Astronaut (What did she say then, "It figures?"... She figured that she'd really have no control over the events after all she's done to stop them?).


 * The same 2011 time zone as The Miracle was featured briefly in this episode (Torchwood: Miracle Day). This means that Amy and Rory were in Leadworth during their summer vacation from the TARDIS while The Miracle was happening, meaning that part of the episode was in sync with Torchwood: Miracle Day. It is highly likely that from the perspective of the Doctor Who universe, The Doctor was informed about such events by Amy and Rory and The Doctor most likely reassured them that The Miracle would not be permanent, otherwise it would be inevitable that he would have intervened. However from the real world perspective this is just a continuity error, and the outcome of The Miracle remains unknown.
 * Not all of 2011 is nesecessarily affected by the Miracle. Captain Jack probably stopped it a while before the Doctor, and with Melody being kidnapped and the Silence out to get him, he probably didn't bother about the Miracle, knowing that Jack was sorting it out, he had a hand in it after all. For all we know, Amy and Rory could have had a discussion about Miracle Day with the Doctor off-screen.


 * Why didn't the Doctor simply travel to 'the best hospital in the universe' to get cured? He was well enough to stand up, change some clothes, and transport the TARDIS.
 * It is started there is no cure, and the TARDIS has knowledge of everything, then it is clear that a cure is never invented.


 * How does Rory know the Sonic Screwdriver has a psychic interface and all Amy needs to do is "point and think" when inside the robot? The Doctor told him all he had to do is "point and press" (The Big Bang), and he said the TARDIS could home in on it when giving it to them (this episode), so how would Rory know the screwdriver has that feature?


 * The Teselecta put's Zimmerman's real glasses on then miniaturizes him and pulls him in through the iris opening through those same glasses. Why would people have to come in through the real iris hole in the machine, if the beam was capable of transporting them through things like glasses. I expect this was an oversight.


 * If the whole point of the poison is that the Doctor couldn't regenerate out of it, how did River giving the Doctor her remaining regenerations solve anything?
 * She didn't give him her remaining regenerations, she used the energy that would have been used to regenerate her across her lives repair him now.