Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/Day of the Moon


 * Never-minding that two people probably couldn't lift a rock of dwarf star material, where did the US government get dwarf star material in the first place if they're just now getting to the moon?
 * Planet Earth has dealt with numerous of aliens and especially alien technology. Secret organisations such as Torchwood were up and running at the time. Earth is educated in many things alien. They only went to the moon because the Silence edged them too.
 * Since the prison was actually part of the Doctor's plan, he may have told them where to get it.
 * They are at Area 51. They probably have lots of alien technology there.


 * Why was the Doctor captured and Amy, Rory and River hunted down? If they were working for the President, surely nobody would capture them and lock them up?
 * This was most likely part of the Doctor's plan in order to gain intelligence on the Silence.
 * Alternatively, the Silence were influencing the FBI to pursue the group.


 * The Doctor put the device in Apollo 11 before he received the video of the Silent and before he even knew what it was going to say. Why would he set it up?
 * Canton was probably trying to make The Silent order their deaths. It was the plan.


 * How come The Doctor, Amy, Rory or River don't try to kill The Silence on sight? They must have seen the Lunar Landing.
 * The post-hypnotic command was never in the footage they saw in their own timeline.


 * Why didn't the Doctor sense that the Little Girl was a Time Lady?
 * The Doctor can't always sense a Time Lord or Lady if they are not synchronised with his time line, for example, The Master during Series 3.
 * The reason the Doctor couldn't sense the Master was because of the Archangel Network, not because there timelines weren't synced. Until we know the full nature of the little girl, we don't know for sure that the Doctor should have been able to sense her.
 * The space suit the Little Girl was in was composed of "at least 20 races of alien technology", so because of all that stuff (and the fact that space suits are supposed to be air tight), he probably couldn't smell her, since she was out of the suit before the Doctor got to it.
 * We don't know for a fact that the Little Girl is a Time Lady.
 * 'Smell' is probably a very literal way of looking at Time Lord's sensing each other (despite the odd emphasis on it in End of Time) as the Doctor expects to detect Time Lords on the other side of the universe doing this. But as above, we don't know the girl is a Time Lord.


 * What happens to all the bodies of the dead Silence that are (presumably) killed by the humans in the open?
 * Buried? Burn? Whatever the human race normally does with alien bodies.
 * Exactly. Wouldn't the discovery of dead aliens littering the planet cause disruptions in the timeline?
 * It wouldn't if no one could remember seeing them.


 * If the Silence have been guiding the human race's technological development, couldn't destroying the Silence cause a decline in humanity's technological growth?
 * It was stated by the doctor that the Silence don't create things by themselves, they act as a parasite and steal human technology. Humanity is still a naturally creative, and inventive race.
 * It can probably be assumed the Silence make specific nudges depending on what they need at the time, rather than spurring humans to motion in general.
 * If the earlier Doctor arrived in the Tardis from his timeline, wouldn't the older (dead) Doctor's Tardis be left in 1969?
 * No, it would be left in 2011.
 * No, it would be left in 2011.


 * Canton states that no signal could get through the walls of the Doctor's prison, but he sends the recording of the Silence to the Doctor and to Apollo 11 from inside the prison.
 * He left the door open.
 * If Amy was with the silence and didn't remember the last few days she was locked up with them how did she remember calling Rory 'stupid face' and leaving him that message
 * If Amy was with the silence and didn't remember the last few days she was locked up with them how did she remember calling Rory 'stupid face' and leaving him that message