Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/Tooth and Claw


 * The Doctor tells Rose about 1979, describing it as "a hell of a year", as if he's never taken her there before. However, if the interactive mini-episode Attack of the Graske is counted, she would have already been to 1979 to attend a concert.
 * Rose's trip could have taken place immediately after Tooth and Claw as it is not clear when in their timeline it takes place.
 * It is not clear if the fourth wall-breaking mini-episode is actually canonical.
 * If she simply attended the concert, she would not have seen much else about the year.


 * Why is nobody in Victoria's party surprised by the TARDIS materialising?
 * It was probably not in their sight until it had already arrived.


 * Why doesn't Victoria have a lady in waiting?
 * If they were going on a long and potentially dangerous journey, they would not want to put Victoria and her lady in waiting in danger. This may have caused them to set off at different times.


 * How does the Werewolf escape from the library? Surely the mistletoe doors should keep him in just like they kept him out.
 * Perhaps its allergy is strong enough for it to find a different way into the library, but not enough to stop it blasting through the doors when it's trapped inside with no recourse of escape.
 * The werewolf may have been able to climb the bookshelves to their tops then jump back out of the window.


 * Victoria worrying about the curse of the Koh-i-Noor affecting her is wrong, as the curse is only supposed to apply to men, and not to women.
 * She may refer to the irony of her situation, since she is clearly in mortal danger. She was also in what was considered a man's role during those times.


 * Why does the moonlight from the "telescope" vanish at the same time as the wolf does? It's unlikely that the moon moves out of the telescope's field of vision at just the same time as the wolf dies.
 * It is possible the wolf needed to be hit by the entire spell of the moon, so therefore the moon moved out of view then the wolf died, rather than the other way around.
 * Clouds could have covered the moon.


 * The Doctor tells Rose that by 1879, Queen Victoria has had six attempts on her life. In truth, she had been the target of just four assassination attempts by that time. During her life, she only had five attempts on her life.
 * The Doctor often displays knowledge of historical facts that are not recorded in history books.
 * The Whoniverse isn't our universe. Victoria also wasn't attacked by a Werewolf in our universe, so why couldn't there have been two other attempts before that?


 * When the Doctor is looking through the books in the library for a way to defeat the Werewolf, he is looking through the pages one by one. But, in Rose, when he is Jackie's flat, he looks through the magazine in under two seconds. Why doesn't he repeat this with the library book to save time and get through more books?
 * The Tenth Doctor's reading abilities aren't as good as the Ninth's.


 * How can Queen Victoria pass the curse of the Werewolf onto her children if she's already given birth to them? The story is set post-Albert's death, and she says so herself that she has had her children, therefore she can't pass it on through childbirth.
 * The Doctor said that she must have bitten her children for them to have the curse.
 * They seemed to just be joking around.