Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/The Bells of Saint John


 * The 'Spoonheads' rotate their heads around very slowly to capture their victims. And yet, during this time, not one person decides to take the opportunity to run. Any explanation?
 * Well the majority of people are either too startled or too curious by this strange sight to run, as quite simply they don't realize the danger till it's too late. As for Miss Kizlet, she clearly tries but being scared and a old women she simply isn't able to.


 * The way the monks react at the beginning, implies the doctor has instructed them to watch out for the bells to start ringing. But when they do start to ring the doctors is clearly surprised and didn't expect it to occur.
 * He probably thought some other bell might ring. Maybe the internal telephone or, if he was gloomy enough, the cloister bell...
 * There's no indication that he gave them any instructions regarding ringing bells. They know the TARDIS is connected to him, so when it starts ringing, the Abbott concludes they should let him know.


 * How did the spoonhead get upstairs into Clara's room?
 * My first thought was that they worked through teleport, but that doesn't seem to be the case judging by the rest of their technology. Since the link with Clara wasn't properly active yet it maybe homed in on the laptop first?


 * How did the doctor get his motorcycle up the stairs out of the Tardis doors?
 * Would that be the anti-grav motorcycle that he later drives vertically up the side of a building...? It presumably can handle a few stairs.

A better point, why not keep the levels always up?
 * Miss Kizlet "hacks" Alexei, increasing his IQ exponentially in order for him to come up with a "creative" solution to the problem of Clara escaping. Why then didn't she jack up his IQ when he was in the process of being out-hacked by the Doctor earlier?