Theory:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/Timelash


 * At the end of this story, the Borad is thrown back in time (to 12th century Scotland); the Doctor speculates that the Borad will become the Loch Ness Monster. This would appear to contradict Terror of the Zygons, which established the legendary creature as a cyborg weapon of the Zygons.
 * This is possibly not what the Doctor is implying, as he only mentions that the Borad will be seen "from time to time".''


 * The sudden re-appearance of the Borad, and it's attribution to 'cloning' seems very tacked-on and unconvincing. It would still mean there are/were two distinct Borads running things to begin with. What happened if they disagreed about something? How do we know there were only two?'
 * The ruthless tyrant Borad being 'jeered' into falling into the Timelash seems vaguely ridiculous.
 * The way the Doctor dismisses his miraculous re-appearance for the climax after being moments away from death at the hands of the alien missile by simply saying it's a 'little trick' and that he'll 'explain later', is a total cop-out.
 * When the Doctor tells Peri that the Kontron tunnel is a 'time corridor in space' she asks 'Didn't the Daleks have one of those?', a reference to Resurrection of the Daleks. However, she wasn't around at the time, and in Revelation of the Daleks she doesn't recognise a Dalek by its appearance, indicating that the Doctor may have told her a tiny detail of a previous adventure but neglected to describe what the main adversary actually looked like.
 * That doesn't really seem out of character for the 6th Doctor. He could start telling her a story about Resurrection, then digress, or just cut himself off. Or he could just throw that fact in as an aside or even a total non-sequitur in a conversation. "Do humans ever invent time travel?" "Sure, Peri, but not until the 51st century. Other races got there much faster--the Daleks had time corridors less than 100 years after they went into space--but it took you humans 3000 years to even invent primitive time rings, and blah blah blah."


 * In the power room, Maylin Renis, whilst adjusting some control dials, pulls one of them off and hurriedly replaces it.