Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/Children in Need Special


 * How does the Doctor know that Jack is okay?
 * An unknown amount of time transpired between when he kissed Rose and when she regained consciousness inside the TARDIS. As was later revealed in Utopia, the Doctor knew that Jack had become a fixed point in time. His Time Lord sense to know fixed points would have alarmed him to Jack's status and may have told him to run away from Jack.


 * The Doctor seems to be much more stable before he finally began to show the trauma. How could this have happened?
 * This is consistent with previous regenerations and his tenth regeneration. He goes back and forth between stability and instability before he "settles down".