Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/The Time of Angels


 * Although in this episode the Angels can telepathically influence people if they look into their eyes, in DW:Blink, both Sally Sparrow and Larry Nightingale looked the Angels in that episode in the eyes, but they remained fine.
 * In this episode the Doctor says something about the one's he fought on Earth being barely alive scavengers, perhaps this means that they were too weak to affect Sally and Larry in that way.
 * The Angels wanted Sally and Larry to go into the basement, and that's exactly what they did. So, maybe they didn't need to influence them--or maybe they actually did influence them, which is why they went into the basement.


 * If the TARDIS noise is caused by the brakes always being on due to the Doctor's clumsiness (as implied by River Song), how come all the other TARDISes make that sound? For example, the Master's TARDIS in DW: Terror of the Autons.
 * The may all leave the brakes on, or the TARDIS turns it on for safety. It could also be that, without the breaks on the Tardis makes no noise at all when landing, even with a functioning chameleon circuit turning up someplace without realizing it could cause problem(especially since traveling through the Time/Space Vortex does take time) so they may leave it on just so they know when they have landed, should they be away from the control.(although this does tend to announce to anyone who is present where a Tardis lands that something strange is going on but something randomely appearing out of no-where would be shocking whether or not it made any noise at all).
 * It's possible that River's flying instructor (whoever that happens to be) figured out on his own that you don't need the brakes on to land, but that nobody else (including the Doctor, the Master, Chronotis, etc.) ever realized that. After all, it's pretty normal to have the brakes on when you land anything else; coming up with a way to land, say, a 767 without the brakes on would be an impressive feat to every existing 767 pilot.
 * As it was established (in the Tom Baker episode "Underworld") that even the pillars of TL society had TARDISes that made the noise, it likely is indeed a safety feature, and what River did was "reckless driving". That the Dr. did not correct her suggests that he recognized River's skill in "hot-dogging" the TARDIS and not crashing it; even if he'd pointed out the risk she took, he would then only have been highlighting her skill in avoiding that risk.


 * If the Weeping Angels wore away and looked like regular statues, surely that would mean that they're clothing stays the same, as one Weeping Angel that was reverted to look like a normal statue was wearing a toga, but, in fact, none of the Weeping Angels wore anything that resembled a toga - just a dress.
 * In Blink, Sally Sparrow has a photograph of a Weeping Angel...
 * The Angel created by being in the photo might be waiting for an ideal time to act. Chiroptera Rex 23:17, April 25, 2010 (UTC)
 * The doctor reffers to the newly created Angel that attacks Amy as a "projection." It is possible that if the original angel is in a state of quantum lock that they cannot act through a projection. Since all the angles from Blink are now trapped in a state of quantum lock, this explaination is plausable. The Doctor also reffers to the Angels on Earth as "scaveners bearly surviving." So, perhaps they didn't have the power to to act through a projection as well.