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


 * In episode two, The Doctor questions Perry about Bob Hall, asking about him by name. In episode one, Hall's name is never given verbally to the Doctor or Jamie.
 * It is possible that the information is given visually (on his clipboard, for example).


 * In episode two, part of a camera appears as the Dalek questions Victoria.
 * Perhaps it could be a piece of Dalek equipment monitoring her.
 * Production error.


 * Why not just kidnap the Doctor and Jamie?
 * This would be much harder to achieve without drawing unwanted attention by the authorities, than merely luring them to the shop with the TARDIS.
 * Just kidnapping the Doctor and Jamie was less likely to cause the Doctor to cooperate than holding the TARDIS hostage.


 * Since Jamie is so essential to Dalek plans, why are the traps set for him so lethal?
 * The Daleks have been known to kill anyone, even people they need.
 * In order for the Daleks to get the data they need Jamie must experience heightened emotions like fear and courage. For this reason the traps the Daleks set have to be genuinely dangerous.  If Jamie encountered nonlethal traps he wouldn't have the same emotional reactions to them and the experiment would be ruined.  Jamie dying from the traps was a calculated risk.  Presumably if he had died the Daleks would have settled for a less optimal candidate and experimented on them.
 * Or the traps might not be as lethal as they seem.


 * The Doctor agrees to work for The Daleks when they threaten to destroy the TARDIS - but on other occasions the TARDIS has been unable to be destroyed for example, the Daleks tried to attack it in The Chase and failed.
 * TV: Journey's End clearly shows they are capable of destroying it when the defenses are down. Further, the Doctor is shown later in the story to have his own ulterior reasons to pretend to be working for the Daleks.


 * Just how long have the Daleks been planning this for? Waterfield must have been in 1966 for a while to get a reputation as a Victorian antique dealer before he could track down the Doctor and Jamie for the Daleks.
 * The Daleks could have dropped Waterfield off a few years before and then gone forward several months to check up on him. From their point of view very little time would have passed.


 * How do the Daleks know that it will be the Second Doctor? - this is on the same day as the First Doctor story TV: The War Machines, so it could have easily been him and not the Second Doctor.
 * They didn't necessarily know. The pictures of Jamie and the Doctor appear to have been taken recently - i.e., during this visit to Earth.
 * Possible for the Doctor but Jamie is wearing completely different clothes to the ones he wore in this story and The Faceless Ones (it's his outfit from The Highlanders and The Underwater Menace).


 * Was the photo of the Doctor and Jamie taken during a future adventure, or perhaps during the earlier adventure in Gatwick airport with the Chameleons? Otherwise, why weren't Ben and Polly in the photo, or otherwise part of the Daleks' plans?  Jamie had been the Doctor's sole traveling companion only since the very end of the previous adventure.
 * As addressed above, the photo was probably taken during the Doctor's battle with the Faceless Ones.
 * That does not explain why Ben and Polly were not included.


 * This was before the Daleks were divided into "Renegade" and "Imperial". During that period in Dalek history, the Daleks were ruled by the "Supreme Council" and the "Dalek Supreme" (and later the "Renegade Daleks" were ruled in the same system), and the Emperor was ruler of the "Imperial Daleks". So if the Imperial Daleks didn't exist yet, how could there be a Dalek Emperor? That big grey dalek that was the "Emperor Dalek", could this actually be the "Dalek Supreme" and if it is, why was it called the "Emperor Dalek"?
 * The Daleks at this point do have an Empire of planets which they have conquered, therefore it is appropriate to call their leader an Emperor. The Supreme Dalek, could have been the leader of the Military, where as the Emperor is leader of the whole Dalek race. Much like WW2, where Eisenhower was the Supreme Commander of the Armies. Additionally, it is never clearly indicated exactly when in Dalek history these Daleks originated.


 * Why does Terrall get Toby to kidnap Jamie?
 * He could be resisting commands and getting Jamie to safety.


 * How does Toby know which one of them is Jamie?
 * He was told.