Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/The Day of the Doctor


 * Doesn't this contradict the appearance of the Time Lords in The End of Time? Rassilon and his council knew that the Doctor possessed the Moment so attempted his crazy plan to become beings of pure consciousness - this didn't happen in The Day of the Doctor. In The Day of the Doctor, the General was in charge and there was no mention of  Rassilon's plan. Gallifrey did not move next to the Earth. But both these events were on the last day of the Time War.
 * The general just headed the war council he was only in charge of the military and strategic planning, the High Council was mentioned to have there own crazy plan, and it was later mentioned it failed. So nothings been contradicted, just reset. Basically this is how it always went.
 * But Gallifrey got moved next to the Earth in The End of Time. This never happened in The Day of the Doctor.
 * And then it was sent back, presumably this bit was offscreen, we don't exactly see the whole event. Alternatively destroying the process may have meant this bit was actually erased and never occurred in the time line.


 * Did all his previous incarnations forget that they had helped to save Gallifrey too?
 * Yes, why should they be immune?


 * How did the Doctors contact all their previous incarnations to get them to come and help?
 * It shouldn't be that hard considering he has a time machine and knows exactly when they would be available.


 * How comes all of the Doctors were there on the cloud at the end? They were all looking up at Gallifrey, but surely if they remembered that they had all saved it then it wouldn't make sense because they didn't remember.
 * It's a dream of Eleventh.


 * Why were there two different versions of the Seventh Doctor shown on the screens at the War Council? - a version of him looking as he did between 1987-89 in his question marked jumper and a version of him from the TV Movie. Is this a production error? There couldn't have been two versions of him there as it is stated there is only thirteen of them there.
 * I'd chalk it up to a production error. IIUC, all of the footage of Eccleston, McGann, and the earlier actors was archival. It's possible that McCoy is the only case where clips of the same actor from multiple sources is noticeable given 1) the clips were shown in black & white and 2) most of the other Doctors had either just 1 costume or costumes that were extremely similar.


 * Where are the Skaro Degradations, the Nightmare Child, and the Would-be King?
 * Presumably they were destroyed by the Dalek bombardment.


 * Now hang on, are we really meant to believe that every (well almost every) Dalek in existence was destroyed when Gallifrey vanished? I mean I know they "upped their firepower", but were there no Daleks ANYWHERE else in time and space that would have escaped that initial blast. If it's true that "A Dalek is a genius", then any genius knows not to put all their eggs in one basket, anyone got any ideas?
 * The Daleks were very intent on winning the Time War. I can imagine that once they broke through the sky trenches of Arcadia, they wanted every single Dalek present in order to assure victory. Not to mention the fact that they frequently let their personal hatred of Time Lords and especially the Doctor get the best of them.