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


 * The Doctor performs a fake regeneration, so why wasn't he able to repair his own eyes?
 * Because it was a fake regeneration..?
 * There was regeneration power coming from his body..!
 * He wasn't actually injured, it's been clarified that once one starts a process fully to heal, change becomes inevitable. This has been clarified on the Oxygen page: it's a waste of a regeneration when being blind doesn't really kill you.


 * In the prison, why doesn't the Monk recognize Bill, or at least detect she isn't under their power?
 * Maybe it did but didn't perceive her as a threat or believed she was still under their influence?


 * (Seen on another forum) In the flashbacks with the Dalek and Cyberman, Why is the Dalek from Inside the Dalek, and the Cyberman from Nightmare in Silver? Neither took place on Earth!
 * Isn't this more a production thing than continuity?


 * Once the Monks had left the public couldn't remember the past six months! I'm sure there would be photographic and video footage somewhere!
 * The Monks are evidently a pretty powerful race, their technology could change history with sheer thought so they may have easily changed all the cottage or the Doctor did some fiddling of his own.


 * People died during the Monks 6 months on Earth. What about the families of those people?
 * Presumably the memory adjusting they did compensated for this?


 * Is it okay to put weeping angel in promo video?
 * How do you mean?


 * Bill didn't know about regeneration, so why did Doctor perform fake regeneration to Bill?
 * Perhaps he was doing it to deceive the monks, in case there were still "watching" as he was testing.
 * Plus he mentioned regeneration to her in Knock Knock, so it's not like she's entirely ignorant of it.