Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/Asylum of the Daleks


 * If the man at the beginning was taken over by the security system, and designed to activate and attack intruders, what was he doing working when they arrive?
 * Like Darla earlier in the episode, Harvey did not realize that he had been converted.


 * Similarly, if he was there to kill intruders, why not just shoot Amy and the Doctor when they were lying there, rather than masquerading as a victim until they're in the ship?
 * See above.
 * The Doctor is a major enemy of the Daleks. Maybe they thought that if they lured the Doctor into the ship with the other converted people they would have a greater chance of killing him.


 * Daleks are shown having survived from "The Chase, The Daleks Master Plan, and Planet of the Daleks," but in those stories (and Death to the Daleks), no Daleks actually survived (who interacted with the Doctor anyway.)
 * These Daleks did not interact with the Doctor, but still knew he was the enemy.


 * Its stated all the Daleks in intensive care are from old stories (mentioned in the point above) but they're all modern Daleks.
 * Since almost all Dalek redesigns happen off screen, the "new" Daleks could have been designed long ago and slowly phased in.
 * Alternatively, the Kaled mutants inside could have been transferred into new casings.


 * If Oswin couldn't open a simple door, how did she so quickly delete all the memories of the Daleks' greatest foe, who they're all programed to kill?
 * One explanation is that the Daleks' memory is just simple code which could be deleted, while to open a door she would have to find the code, wipe the part that closes it, and write in more to open it, taking longer and being harder to do given the amount of doors on the planet.
 * Also, the door could have been entirely in her imagination.


 * Why did the Daleks leave the Doctor in the Asylum? Even if they forgot who he was, they would still kill all alien life forms, so why didn't they kill him?
 * The dead crew members, who have been taken over by the Daleks' nanoclouds, are seen climbing down the ladder, but after the Dalek explodes, there neither seen nor mentioned again.
 * Most of them move slowly and seem to lack means of surveillance, so they couldn't find them in the Asylum.
 * They may have just been killed in the explosion.


 * If the Doctor's immune to the nanocloud, why did the Daleks give him a protection bracelet?
 * How do we know he was? It was just Amy's theory. They might have escaped before the nanobots could convert him completely. We have yet to know if they might have done something long term to his mind in the time without the bracelet. EDIT: It seems like a copout when Amy says, "He doesn't need it, he's a Time Lord."


 * Why were all the dead crewmen just sitting neatly in their seats?
 * Possibly because there was no need for an extra guard or one that would so obviously deter future visitors to the Asylum. They could have lain there undisturbed since their death.


 * If Oswin's such a genius, why was she working as entertainer?
 * Because it's fun? Smart is the new sexy.
 * Maybe she just got the job and was yet to be promoted.


 * If Oswin was a Dalek all along, how was her human voice transmitted right until the Doctor discovered her? Or was the Doctor hearing a Dalek voice the whole time?
 * The voice was from an electronic source the whole time the Doctor heard it so I can hardly imagine that it would be beyond a Dalek to synthesise it.


 * Why was there a distinct lack of gunfire from the converted crewmen?
 * Because Dalek energy weapons - even the primitive ones fitted into the ones into long term agents which simply stunned - possibly require more energy than the nanites can provide.


 * Oswin, seemingly newly converted and perhaps carrying full capabilities of a Dalek, was able to break free of its chains; why couldn't it just go by itself to the teleport?
 * Oswin was still trapped in her illusion as a human and believed it beyond her capability.


 * Skaro was destroyed in the Time War – which is to say, declared nonexistent and irretrievable – and nobody mentions this.
 * Actually no, it was Gallifrey that was destroyed in the Time War, the Daleks' planet was destroyed in "Remembrance of the Daleks"
 * Also, the Doctor's comments in that episode imply that the planet's still simply wrecked, like a city when it's hit by a atom bomb; this is confirmed by what we see in this episode.


 * Apparently there are human prison camps on Skaro, even though it is their purpose, not to enslave, but to exterminate.
 * Like the Nazis did? The point is, why not exploit them first, they've done this before (Destiny of the Daleks) Plus they might be used for interogation.


 * Daleks are small pink creatures with one eye. The eyestalk and the weapon is simply a part of their armor, so naturally the people who've been partially converted into Daleks should not have had these things in their body.
 * It doesn't turn them into a dalek, it turns them into a slave, clearly the nanogenes, built these in them, to make them more effective slaves.


 * Daleks are obsessed with their own genetic perfection: there are had multiple episodes detailing their disgust for human impurity, to the point of committing genocide against a human-Dalek hybrid race. But according to this episode, they think it is acceptable to manipulate human corpses and putting the resultant hybrid entities in positions of command.
 * Thousands of Daleks, their entire Parliament, the ship in which they reside and the asylum planet have all apparently survived the Time War, even though this is impossible.
 * No this is the new dalek Parliament, they fact there are daleks with the new colour sceems proves this, evidently in the time they've had they've rebuilt there numbers and brought them back, plus previous stories show, only officers (or ones with special jobs) get to be coloured, the rest are just standard daleks.


 * The Doctor is called ‘the Predator of the Daleks’, a name he’s never heard before, even though he’s known in their mythology as the Oncoming Storm.
 * How is this an error? Attila the Hun was called, "the destroyer" "the abomination," "the scourge of god," etc. by the romans, there is no limit to the number of nicknames your greatest enemy can have.