Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/The Crimson Horror


 * How did Mrs Gillyflower create such advanced technology (Rockets, Presevation chambers) with 1893 technology? Sure its stated she's a genius (a Chemistry genius though) but isn't it a bit stretching it she can make things that are decades ahead of the time?
 * How did Stax get the top of the tower so quickly?
 * Strax, bad as he may be when it comes to social interactions, is still a skilled Sontaran warrior and could probably think of a good tactical method of quickly ascending the tower. Also, considering all of the weaponry that he mentions having at times, it's entirely possible that he had some sort of grappling device.
 * If it was really Gillyflower who experimented on her daughter causing her go blind, not her drunk husband as she claimed how exactly did she convince Ada?
 * The poison probably wiped Ada's memories, so she (Ada) believed the lie that the drunk husband was to blame.
 * Additionally, the poison was probably administered very subtly.
 * How did Ada get the doctor into the secret room without anyone noticing? And keep him for so long without anyone finding out?
 * Well, I doubt the Doctor was in the room for much more than a few days.
 * How long has Gillyflower been planning this? To build a building and a town it must have taken years, and to set it up to her specifications must have taken a long time, plus she already has enough survivors to quickly skip to the end, but everyone treats Sweetville as if its a new thing.
 * For all her plans of rebirth, it never seems to occur to Gillyflower that a poison capable of wiping out all life on earth, would poison the waters and lands for years, (unless it had a very short sell by date, in which case how does such a little leech produce so much?) Six months hardly seems a reasonable rest phase.
 * Gillyflower had developed an antidote to the poison, so presumably she would give it to her workers after reviving them. Or perhaps being poisoned and then revived has the same effect as an antidote.


 * If the poison makes her workers loyal, then how did she get the workers in the first place?
 * Strax and Vestra seem way to calm about people knowing there true identity, considering how intolerant the Victorians were to there fellow humans, do they really think its a good idea to show there are monsters walking about?
 * ...And who would believe anyone who saw them?