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This page is for discussing the ways in which The Eaters of Light doesn't fit well with other DWU narratives. You can also talk about the plot holes that render its own, internal narrative confusing.
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- Why would Bill wonder off on her own to find a Roman soldier, that could easily kill her?
- Well, the Doctor thought they were all dead and Bill has reckless bravery?
- Aberdeen wasn't deserted. She could still have been in danger!
- Well, the Doctor thought they were all dead and Bill has reckless bravery?
- Why has it taken so long for Bill to realise that the TARDIS can translate language?
- Because her adventures never needed this information clarifying?
- She just had an adventure with aliens from Mars? Wouldn't that raise a question?
- Although I can't understand your sentence, much fuss has been made that the TARDIS didn't translate in Extremis!
- Because her adventures never needed this information clarifying?
- Who built the gate? How did it get there? Isn't the gate still there?
- How is this a continuity error?
- Plot hole!
- How? Just because it didn't tell us doesn't make it a plot hole, not like it's a paradox or anything
- Of course, its a plothole. Its because the viewer isn't told makes it a plothole!
- How? Just because it didn't tell us doesn't make it a plot hole, not like it's a paradox or anything
- Plot hole!
- How is this a continuity error?
- If the stones blocked the entrance of the gate, wouldn't removing the stones open it up again?
- ?
- The stone from the building started to crumble!
- That's because too many people travelled through the portal at once
- The stone from the building started to crumble!
- ?
- I couldn't understand how or why the light was damaging the monster before it was pushed back into the gate!
- It's the reflectors they used, it destroys the light in a way that harms the creator rather than empower it
- Why is there an engraving of the TARDIS on one of the rocks, when none of the survivors saw the Police box?
- Maybe they did, the Doctor was in the gate for two days at one point so that was ample time for them to find the TARDIS and probably for Nardole to class it as off limits.