The Doctor Who Bloopers List: Tenth Doctor Bloopers

The Christmas Invasion:

The Tenth Doctor gets his era off to a flying start with some dodgy continuity in the pre-title sequence. When the Doctor opens the door of the TARDIS and says "London, Earth... did it!", his hair is styled neatly, and in the background you can clearly see the TARDIS interior looking its normal yellow colour. Then the camera cuts to a wider shot of him walking out of the TARDIS: The interior is now red and his hair is noticeably floppier.

There is a person who vanishes as the TARDIS appears — they start walking into the centre of the square but are never seen again.

The positioning of the falling CGI TARDIS changes between shots. The shot looking at the TARDIS falling away from the camera (towards the bins) shows the doors on the front, but in the next shot as it hits the bins and spins, the door isn't visible.

Pieces of debris fly off as the TARDIS careers around the place and hits things, but the buildings seem remarkably untouched once the TARDIS moves on.

The TARDIS crash-lands in public and we see loads of people looking on after it has settled down — but not a single policeman or soldier turns up to investigate? In a similar vein, for the postman whose van gets hit — why doesn't (a) he get out and have a word, or (b) have an ambulance called for him by anyone?

The Guinevere probe bounces off the the Sycorax ship... when surely it should have been smashed to pieces, being such a fragile and fast moving object?

"Guinevere" is spelt as "Guinivere" on one of the monitors at UNIT HQ.
[They moan about this on the DVD commentary]

When Rose and Mickey are Christmas shopping at the beginning, in clear view on the supposedly "London" street is a Welsh policeman — as evidenced by his ridged police helmet.
[I could make some sort of comment like "hasn't he got a funny helmet (tee hee)", but that would just be childish]

When Jackie and Mickey run out to greet each other, the high angle shot shows the ground to be perfectly dry — but check again once the Doctor steps out of the TARDIS.

Noel Clarke appears to have an attack of festive spirit: When the Doctor steps from the TARDIS for the first time, Mickey can be seen smiling as his face turns away from the camera to follow the Doctor. Then, when the Doctor grabs him and screams, "Oh, I know...Merry Christmas," Noel can't control himself and has to look down to avoid David Tennant's eye (and presumably to stop himself bursting out laughing).

So the Doctor's dressing gown has an apple in the pocket because "Howard gets hungry in his sleep"? Who wears a dressing gown in their sleep??

Considering it's supposed to be, you know, Christmas... there are an awful lot of trees in full summer leafiness! Not to mention an entire block of flats with their windows open in the middle of winter (noticeable when the TARDIS arrives).

There's a scene where the mechanical Santas aren't wearing gloves and their human hands can be seen.
[The costume department were apparently "mortified" by this gaffe. I'm delighted to add to their mortification by publishing this online for all to see]

While the Christmas tree is going ape in the flat, Rose puts the sonic screwdriver into what looks like the Doctor's right hand. After she whispers in his ear and he wakes up, it's in his left hand.

While the tree is on its rampage, it smashes the window and door frame in the lounge, but later on the door frame is seen perfectly intact.

The Sycorax's methods are a bit strange: when you're trying to assassinate someone, do you plan to just stand singing out in the cold somewhere, just hoping that eventually whoever you want to kill will just happen to walk by? And why use weapons that are so ineffective that even when their victims do happen to walk past, they have no real trouble escaping? So much for "killer" Santas!

On a similar note, the Christmas tree is a highly complicated remote-controlled spinning thing that could, possibly, kill someone. Why put all that gadgetry in there, just for a long shot at killing someone, when you could just as easily slap a ruddy big bomb in there that would wipe out the whole building?

Is it just me or does it feel like the Sycorax focus all their attention on the Doctor in the first half, but then they just kinda forget about him and decide to take over the Earth instead?

In at least one of the shots of the people standing on the rooftops (possibly the Powell estate), there seem to be a lot of people wearing yellow shirts. All of whom are spaced at regular intervals...!

When the shockwave hits the Earth, it's strong enough to damage buildings — shouldn't it have been strong enough to knock at least a few of those people off the rooftops?

When the Doctor is moved to the TARDIS and Jackie comes back with the extra food, there are a lot of suspciously-unbroken windows visible in the blocks of flats, considering the force of the shockwave we saw.

At least twice in this episode, while characters are using computers you can see the controls for PowerDVD (or some similar DVD software) on screen pretty blatantly, thus giving away the fact that what we're seeing on-screen is being played from a DVD (or a video file) and not actually being controlled by the characters. It happens about 17 minutes in as we watch playback of the animated space simulation, then happens again later while Llewellyn is going through the blood records (look at the bottom of the monitor).

Watch out for some dodgy continuity as the Sycorax ship flies over London: There's no denying that it looks amazing and The Mill did a great job. But from looking at the effects shots, the ship seems to approach from both the north of London and the south of London while flying over the Houses of Parliament and over the Tyler's estate simultaneously. And it looks incredibly massive (or very high up) when seen from space but looks noticeably smaller (and/or lower) when the view switches to ground level.

So a third of the population were up on the rooftops (that's more than 20 million people in Blighty alone) so how could UNIT figure out so fast that so many of them were related and none of them were husbands and wives?

And speaking of which — really, NONE of those 20 million people were husbands and wives? Fat chance! If a third of the population have A-positive blood, then by definition 1 in 9 married couples are both A-positive!
[By my calculations, that's over 300,000 married couples in the UK alone!]

And don't any A-positive people in the world sleep in the nude (or at least topless)?

The PM's aide reads a slightly different message from the translation of the Sycorax's demands — the screen also demands "your women" but the aide doesn't mention that.
[Dirty old Sycorax!]

How does the translator "catch up" with the Sycorax dialogue? For the majority of the dialogue there is a delay between it being spoken and being translated (as you would expect). But at the end of the scene when we hear the words in English, the guy is translating at exactly the same time as the words are being spoken by the leader.

When the Doctor drinks the cup of tea, he claims that because it contains free radicals, it's "just the thing for healing the synapses". He's definitely in need of some synapse-healing — tea doesn't contain any free radicals! Quite the opposite in fact, since the anti-oxidants in tea destroy free radicals within the body — which is fine since free radicals are bad for you!

The Doctor has his whole hand cut off, yet there isn't as much as an 'ouch' from him. He was whining like a baby earlier in the episode in pain, yet apparently losing the hand doesn't even make him wince? Not to mention that when he holds up the "stump", there's no blood visible on his pyjamas — surely with two hearts a-pumpin' it should be a bloodbath?
[In fairness, I doubt any of us is an expert on post-regeneration Time Lord physiology]

Speaking of severed hands, when the hand is shown falling with the sword, we see that it's been cut off quite a distance below the wrist. Yet when we see the Doctor's arm just before he grows the hand back (during his little regeneration speech), it appears to have been cut off near the wrist, rather than inches below it.

One final problem in the same scene, how come the sword is sharp enough to chop off the hand below the wrist with one swipe, yet his sleeve remains completely intact? There doesn't seem to be even one missing thread on his sleeve where the hand is missing.
[Blimey, his pyjamas must be made out of some sort of super tough space-nylon — too bad it doesn't protect his hand though!]

Near the end of the swordfight sequence when the Doctor says, "It's a fightin' hand!" he had just stood up from the edge (with the blue sky behind him) after his hand regenerates. The camera cuts again, and now he's quite far from the edge facing the opposite direction with the wall of the ship behind him.

The Doctor grows a new hand because he's within 15 hours of his regeneration cycle. What does this mean exactly? He arrives in London during the hours of daylight on December 24th (three days after the winter solstice) so that makes it 4.30pm GMT at the latest. Fifteen hours later would be 7am on Christmas morning — in other words, when it would still be dark! Yet all those scenes with the Prime Minister's message and Rose, Jackie and Mickey carrying the Doctor out to the TARDIS take place in broad daylight.
[Admittedly he doesn't say 15 Earth hours...]

In the very last shot of the story, when the camera cranes upwards after the 'that way' ending dialogue. Billie Piper appears to accidentally look at the camera, and then look away again very quickly after realising her mistake..!

New Earth:

Right at the start, why do the Doctor's footsteps make a metallic noise, when he's wearing tennis shoes?

In the opening scenes after the credits, the hovercars make shadows over the Doctor and Rose in long shot, but once we move into close-ups, there are no more shadows. Surely you'd also expect to hear some engines whooshing as Rose steps out of the TARDIS, not just when you get to see the hovercars.

Why is Cassandra's spider wandering around on the cliff top at the start of the episode? It seems to be quite a long way from the hospital for no apparent reason.
[Going for a walk on its lunch break perhaps?]

If the plague clones are all... er, clones, why do they all look different?

And how, while being kept in their pods, do the clones all have such perfectly cut/groomed hair? One of them even has a well-maintained goatee! Do they have access to razors and shaving kits in there?

Come to think of it, being kept in pods, why are the clones wearing clothing at all..?

OK, so the clones are continually re-infected with all known diseases, so that they can be tested on to ensure that the 'cure' works for all diseases. If this is the case, then why are all of them still infected with all diseases, i.e. why aren't some of them healed?

So if the Sisters have a cure that cures all known diseases (as tested on the clones), why do they have about 20 different cures (coloured bags mixed together by the Doctor)? And why isn't this cure already in the lift system? Why are there about 20 different cures, even though each clone is infected with the same diseases? And why do they still need the clones for testing if they've already found all the cures...??
[I need a cure for all this confusion]

If the people were infected with all the diseases and infection from the planet, how come none of them have turned to stone, like the fat bloke? Or turned red, like that other bloke?

Watch the scene after Cassandra takes over Rose's body. There's a long shot showing Cassandra's former body and — hey, look at that — her skin has miraculously disappeared.

Once the hospital had been quarantined, the Doctor says that all the lifts have stopped working... and yet there they are, still merrily whizzing up and down in all the exterior shots.

On the ladder, just after Cassandra has reoccupied Rose so the Doctor can use the sonic screwdriver, Rose (occupied by Cassandra) has the line "We need the Doctor!". This line is clearly in the wrong place as we've already got the Doctor. Editing gaffe surely?

Why does the Doctor threaten Cassandra with the sonic screwdriver? It's Rose's body he'd be blowing a hole in!

At one point as the Doctor zooms downwards in the lift, check out the green-screen reflections on the elevator set.

When the plague carriers lean out of the lift and grab the woman by the arm, she just stands there calmly staring at them for about 30 seconds as though she's contemplating the floral pattern on a vase! Her expression remains totally tranquil even as massive boils begin erupting on her face...!

A final morsel of confusion around the "lab rats" relates to the members of the public in the hospital. They are all shown trapped when the isolation shutters come down, and at the end, when the Doctor is passing on the magic medicine, they are clearly seen sitting around in the same room as the lab rats. Surely they should be dead if the lab rats had touched them (which they were doing previously, to anyone they could get near) and therefore could not be cured by the Doctor — only the lab rats were able to be cured. Or did I miss something?

There's a scene somewhere in this episode where there's supposed to be blue lights from the Psycho-Graft surrounding Rose, but it looks like The Mill forgot to add the SFX in!

When the Doctor enters the lift, Chip says he is going to override the Doctor's floor instruction but the Doctor still ends up on the same level as the Face of Boe. Why? In fact it's Rose who ends up on the wrong level, for reasons unexplained!
[Other than being explained by Chip's incompetence, that is]

Why, only moments after sobbing and saying she doesn't want to die, Cassandra suddenly decides that it's just peachy after all?

Tooth and Claw:

At the very beginning, when her ladyship and her servants are locked in the cellar, why do they scream when the monks bring the werewolf-monk in his cage? It's still daylight, so he's in human form (werewolves need moonlight to transform, right?) and OK, they could be mildly shocked at the sight of a human in a cage, but why the horror shriek??

When the Doctor and Rose first meet Queen Victoria sitting in her carriage, in long shots her head is surrounded by an oval light — looks like they've digitally enhanced the picture, to compensate for poor lighting perhaps?
[It's not a halo, that's for sure — Vic may be Queen, but a saint she ain't!]

Why is the Queen travelling without a lady in waiting?
[She even has to carry her own handbag, poor love]

When the Doctor arrives at Torchwood House, it's raining and nearly dark, but when he sees the "telescope" the sky is bright blue with white fluffy clouds!

There's a great expression of shock from the chained masses in the cellar when the Monk's eyes turn black — but could they really have seen them? Not only is it pretty dark down there, but he's quite a distance away!

During dinner, Captain Reynolds leans forward and put his elbows on the table.
[While having dinner with the Queen? Good God man, where are your manners??]

Why don't they just cover Queenie in loads of mistletoe when they met up with the maidservants?

Why did Sir Robert's dad install a fragile glass dome in the supposedly "werewolf-proof" room?

About halfway into the episode, while the men are firing a volley of shots at the werewolf, the shot of the wolf entering the room is repeated twice. It's as if they wanted to show the wolf getting shot by two rounds of shots, but wanted to save money and use the same footage twice to stretch it out.

How does the werewolf break out of the mistletoe room? The walls and doors are supposedly covered in mistletoe oil (as confirmed by the Doctor's tongue), and the Doctor clearly pulls the doors shut on his way out.

Does anyone else think Torchwood House has too many flights of stairs for a building that size?

Look out for an aircraft jet trail behind the Doctor as he and Rose discuss assassinations.

During the "monks in the courtyard" scene, can you see a TV aerial on the tower?

So if I'm understanding the "trap within a trap" bit correctly, Prince Albert concocted a somewhat unlikely plan to kill the werewolf — not only did it involve using his beloved wife as bait, but the plan also depended on her returning to Scotland to have the Koh-i-Noor diamond recut every year..? A bit far-fetched, no?
[Granted, a plot involving Queen Victoria fighting werewolves is already pretty far-fetched!]

Queen Vic mentions that there are legends surrounding the Koh-i-Noor about it bringing bad luck to whoever owns it. That's true, but only for men — it's supposed to be lucky for women.

It wouldn't have been possible for Rose to become a Dame — commoners could only be anointed as Dames (or Knights) following the introduction of the Royal Victorian Order in 1896, a full 17 years after this story is set.

What happened to the monks outside that were still armed? The next day the soldiers might have recovered and regained their rifles, but what about the trigger-happy monks?

School Reunion:

At the start, when Mr Finch sees the girl outside his office, the door is clearly half-glazed, with the word "Headmaster" on it, and the surrounding walls are all a lurid green colour. Later, when the Doctor and gang enter the Headmaster's office to find the Krillitane hanging from the ceiling, the door is now completely solid, with the word "Headmaster" at head height (this same door also appears later when Finch walks in on the other Krillitane) and the outside walls have now become a fawn colour.

Why does the sick girl say she can't be sent home because she's an orphan? Doesn't her orphanage have staff that would look after her? And for the same reason, why would the headmaster think that she isn't going to be missed?

Since the oil is so dangerous, why don't the dinner ladies put a lid on the barrels before moving them?

If the dinner ladies are all Krillitanes, how does Rose manage to get hired?

Why don't the Krillitanes lock the school doors or install even basic surveillance/alarm equipment?

The writing on the cafe window is the wrong way round — it's legible on the inside instead of the outside.

Watch out for some questionable editing choices after Mickey says "Oh my God, I'm the tin dog!" — you clearly see the Doctor and Rose run out of the cafe, then two shots later they run out again...!

How do Sarah, Rose and Mickey get out of the kitchen into the playground when Mr. Finch has supposedly locked down the school?

At one point the Doctor is walking down a corridor alone, wearing sneakers as usual, but someone in the sound department has inexplicably overdubbed this with a stomping sound, like he's wearing Doc Martens instead!

How come the Doctor smashing one of the screens turns all the other computers off?

Why does Mickey decide he needs to do a ram-raid job on those two flimsy-looking glass doors? Looks like a good solid kick would have done the job, or even a brick lobbed through the glass.

Where does K9's side panel come from? (the right-hand one with the "K9" lettering on on it) When Mickey goes to start him up, the panel clearly isn't there and we don't see Mickey putting it on... then after Mickey drives through the school doors, he rushes out of the car without going near K9, but the next time we see the metal mutt, he has the panel in place.

For that matter, how does K9 get out of Mickey's car unassisted??

We clearly see schoolkids sitting in several different classrooms looking at the computers, yet Mickey pulls the plug in one room and they all crash? Is the entire school's computer network being run off one 13-amp mains plug??

The headphones the kids were wearing disappear magically after Mickey unplugs the computers.

After Mickey has pulled the plug and told everyone to get out, a group of kids rushes past him in panic. All except one tallish boy, who appears to be grinning madly at how much fun it all is..!

How is the Doctor sure there aren't a whole load of Krillitane 'cells' around the world?

In the final scene, where the TARDIS has for no apparent reason been moved into a nice romantic park setting (perhaps it got blown there out of its cupboard when the school exploded?), we see a nice interior diorama when the Doctor opens the door to ask Sarah Jane in for a cup of tea... but then an old-school black nothing when he opens it again to leave.

The Girl in the Fireplace:

Shouldn't this episode have been called "The Girl Behind the Fireplace"? At no point is she actually in it!

So we started off in 18th century France and then had "3000 years later..." pop up on screen, but the Doctor then tells Rose and Mickey that they're in the "51st century". Um... 18th Century + 3000 years = 48th Century, not 51st!

How exactly does a clockwork robot scan someone's brain? Are they equipped with some sort of miniature clockwork MRI scanner??

Madame de Pompadour has a pedal harp in her room, although they weren't invented until 1810, nearly 50 years after her death.
[Perhaps she did get to do some time travelling after all...?]

Watch out for several weather changes during the garden sequence: bright and sunny one moment, dull and cloudy the next, then sunny again.
[Sadly, English weather is the one thing no amount of CGI can fix!]

When Reinette shows the Doctor the broken fireplace in Versailles, you can see through to the spaceship set on the other side. This is before the Doctor fixes the link with the sonic screwdriver, so how can ship be visible through the fireplace? Or, if we're supposed to assume the link is always visible (even when the portal / revolving fireplace is broken), didn't any of Reinette's servants (especially whoever lit her fire every day) ever notice the green-lit spaceship inside the fireplace?...

During the "mind meld", where were the fingers of the Doctor's left hand? First he has 2 fingers behind her right ear and then it instantly cuts to to him having 4 fingers in front of her ear.

When Rose asks Reinette if she's OK, Sophia Myles must have been having a bad skin day, as you can see what appears to be a spot covered up with make-up on the right side of her face — then she goes through the gateway thing and voilà, it's gone!
[A side effect of the portal perhaps? It messes with your brain but it's great for the complexion!]

If the fireplace has been offline since being moved to Versailles, how can we hear Reinette's voice calling for the Doctor during the attack on the party? (Also, how can we not hear the screams of the partygoers in the background?)

How could Arthur the horse jump through something that's "hyperplex" on one side and plate glass on the other, without getting his head cut to ribbons? The Doctor said they'd need a truck to get through it — is Arthur stronger than a truck?!

The spaceship has short, narrow corridors — how does the horse get a good enough run-up to jump through the mirror with such force? And wouldn't jumping a horse from a height onto a hard floor break its legs?

When the Doctor rides the horse through the mirror, it (partly) smashes twice, once in long shot and then again in close up.

Knowing as he does that each visit through the fireplace can be years apart, why does the Doctor tell Reinette to go and choose a star whilst he dashes off to give Rose a hug? Why not just take her through the fireplace there and then?

Lots of people have praised this episode for its romance and characterisation. But from the Doctor's point of view, this episode is pretty much told in real time, right? (Apart from one scene of indeterminate length where he's "dancing" offscreen) So are we really supposed to believe this is the great romance of the Doctor's 900-year existence, when as far as we can tell, the entire relationship lasts something like an hour from his point of view?
[Admittedly Sophie Myles is gorgeous, so there is the "love at first sight" factor, but still...]

In reality, Madame Du Pompadour was 42 when she died in April 1764, not 43 as stated by King Louis.

It's established at the start that the Doctor's first visit to Reinette was in 1727 and later the grown-up Reinette says "I have known you since I was seven years old". But at the end, the painting shows she was born in 1721 (and indeed the real Madame de Pompadour was born on 29th December 1721) so either the Doctor's first visit wasn't until 1728/1729, or Reinette was mis-remembering the past.

Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel:

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Dr Kendrick states at the beginning that the prototype Cyberman's brain is "welded" to its exoskeleton. Erm, a living human brain is the consistency of custard — how could you "weld" custard to anything?!

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Right afterwards, Lumic comments that the Cyber-body "will never age or die". Really? Just because it's made of metal it'll last forever? Hasn't he ever owned a car??

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Dr Kendrick obviously hasn't seen many films, or else he'd know you never, ever tell your evil boss you're going to the authorities and expect him not to kill you there and then...!

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A split second before the TARDIS console explodes, the Doctor, Rose and Mickey are all sitting round it on the seats — then, as we cut straight to an overhead long shot as the whole thing goes up in a ball of fire, the seats are empty and the three of them have vanished!

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If the TARDIS is dead, why are there still lights on under the floor? And if they're indicative of a power source, then why doesn't the Doctor notice it straight away? (Also, they've disappeared by the time Mickey and the Doctor spot the glowing green power cell later on.)

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If the TARDIS fell to Earth as opposed to materialising, shouldn't it have made a whacking great crater?

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When Pete's car pulls up to the mansion, the rear registration plate says something like "G705 KRG", but when the car stops, the front registration plate says "PETE 1".

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Also, you can see a glaring film light reflected on Pete's car door as he opens it.

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Jackie's birthday is 1st February, which she says is "the same as Cuba Gooding Jr." — but his actual birthday is on 2nd January.
[Likely this was caused by a researcher looking up this information online and getting mixed up between US and UK date format (i.e. 1/2 vs 2/1) Though maybe the parallel universe Cuba Gooding Jr. has a different birthday?]

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The file on Rose's phone which she clicks to play the welcome video is called "welcome.jpg", which is a picture file, not a video file — it should be called "welcome.mp4" or something similar.

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Is Mr Crane sitting in a lorry doing nothing when Lumic calls to tell him that he needs "extra staff"?

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When the Doctor recharges the power cell, it gives off a green light. But how could the green light be shining onto the back of his hand?

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Why doesn't the Doctor leave the power cell in the safety of the TARDIS instead of putting it in his pocket as he goes running around an unknown parallel Earth? It's their only ticket out of there — what if he loses it??

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What's the blue thing the President is standing in front of while he's waiting to go up to the airship? It's at the wrong angle to be the sky, and in other shots there doesn't appear to be anything blue in the vicinity.

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Throughout the episode, the Cybus logo has a small circle on the bottom left-hand side, but as the President goes up the stairs to the Zeppelin, the logo next to the door has the small circle on the upper left-hand side instead.

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Why would the President of the UK need to climb a steep ladder/stairs into a Zeppelin which is owned by a man in a wheelchair..?

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Why does the soldier at the checkpoint let Mickey through — what kind of army checkpoint doesn't require ID to pass??

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Right before the crowd on the street get their daily download, you can see one of the extras walking away and then turning straight around and walking back upon himself — clearly he's been told by the director to "mill about" for a bit! (He has long hair; look for him at the right of the screen.)

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When the people on the street receive the daily download, everyone freezes and doesn't blink — all except the bloke in the suit on the right of the screen, who clearly isn't paying attention to the director and continues to blink.

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All the "earpod" people stop moving when they receive their download; wouldn't this be a little bit impractical/dangerous for people driving, using heavy machinery, crossing the road, etc. Think of the chaos that would cause!
[Plus, pick-pockets would have a field day!]

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When the Doctor is reading the info being downloaded from Rose's phone, he says "Daily download published by Cybus Industries" — however the text visible on the phone doesn't mention "Cybus Industries", just "Cybus Network".

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Every shot of Ricky's gran shows the cameraman and boom operator reflected in her dark glasses.

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When Ricky's gran is hitting Mickey, it looks like Noel Clarke is trying hard not to laugh.

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In the van, Jake said the homeless were gathered up at Blackfriars... but they were clearly in front of the Dome in Greenwich (about 5 miles away from Blackfriars, as the crow flies).

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Lumic explains that his process uses "copyrighted chemicals" — surely chemicals are patented, not copyrighted?

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When Mr Crane directs all of the homeless people into the conversion chamber, we hear their screams as they supposedly undergo the conversion process. But they actually start screaming as soon as the chamber door opens, before any of them have even gone inside!

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Where do the Doctor and Rose get their waiter and waitress outfits?

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And why doesn't anyone at the party notice that the Doc and Rose aren't wearing the 'earpods', which would mark them out as terrorists? OK, Rose's hair covers her ears, but the Doctor should have stuck out like a sore thumb.

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When Mickey is being scanned for bugs, he has his legs spread out — but his virtual image on the computer screen shows him with his legs pulled up against the chair legs.

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If you were a secret underground freedom fighter battling the evil machinations of the Cybus Corporation, would you: (a) draw attention to yourself by not wearing ear-pods, like Ricky, or (b) wear dummy ear-pods in order to blend in with the rest of humanity, like anyone with an ounce of common sense would??

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So Ricky is being hunted by the authorities, so much so that he can't even contact his own family, then his exact double turns up out of the blue. Why would Ricky instantly trust Mickey so much that he takes him along for a ride on his most critical mission (and even gives him a gun) instead of believing he's some sort of doppelganger spy sent to infiltrate/kill him??

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You can visibly see the breath coming out of the Cybermens' mouths as they march around in the cold. Er... how exactly can a disembodied brain in a robot body be breathing?

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When the Cybermen burst into the mansion & surround everyone, one Cyberman in the background has a wonky head, as if it doesn't fit properly.

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How can Ricky's gran have two military guards at the end of the street, while the President of the UK doesn't appear to even have a single bodyguard (or anyone watching the perimeter) at Jackie's party..??

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After the Cybermen have surrounded them at the party, Lumic and the President conveniently stop their conversation just long ehough for the Doctor to explain sotto voce to Rose about Cybermen!

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The reference to Cybermen being "Human Point 2" is a little puzzling. If the intended meaning is that Cybermen are the "next upgrade" to current humans, then wouldn't they be "Human Version 2" or "Human 2.0"?

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The President is told that because he refuses to be converted, he is "incompatible" and must be deleted. Er, why? The homeless people weren't exactly willing candidates, but they got converted all the same! (And of course, at the end of the episode the Doctor very deliberately surrenders, so why still claim he's incompatible despite surrendering?)

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After the President is killed and chaos ensues, instead of letting everyone run around like headless chickens, why doesn't Lumic just do a Cybus download into everyone's earpieces, rendering them immobile so the Cybermen could come and collect them with no muss or fuss?

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Does anyone else feel a bit cheated by the way the Doctor just runs away from the party, leaving a whole house full of people to be killed? That's not what you expect from our man, is it?
[Especially since we find out at the start of the next episode that he has a Cyberman-killing power cell in his pocket all along — why not zap the Cybes at the party instead of scarpering?]

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Rose loses her right earring when escaping through the Tyler's window, which magically appears back on a minute later when she and the Doc are surrounded by Cybermen.

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It's somewhat amusing that the Cyberman pursuing Jackie meekly opens the door to follow her, instead of smashing through it like his colleagues did when gatecrashing the party earlier!

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The Doctor and Rose seem to spend a lot of time running directly towards squads of Cybermen at the end of the episode, but only "noticing" them when the camera pans enough to bring them into shot.

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When Rose, Pete and the Doctor are on the run and we see Ricky and Jake come running in with their guns, it's clear that there are lights behind them. Are these not the lights from the van? If so, why stop in the middle of the field to fire their guns? Why not keep running for the van? Instead they just wait there meekly until they're surrounded...!

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Also, in one shot it looks like the Doctor and company are right next to the van, then all of a sudden Mickey runs out from nowhere and everyone just stands there meekly, but now the van is visibly further away.

ep 1 -

Jake shows an admirable regard for Occupational Health & Safety by ensuring he's wearing earplugs in the last few shots of the episode, to protect from the noise of his gun!

ep 1 -

Body double alert! When the Doctor says 'Hands up' as the Cybermen surround them for the cliffhanger, look at Ricky moving behind him. He's regenerated...

ep 2 -

What are the Cybermen doing while the Doctor & co try to escape in the van at the very start of the episode?

ep 2 -

Throughout the episode, why does no-one seem to notice or be concerned that the President of Britain has just been assassinated?
[Perhaps the news didn't get out — don't they have Twitter in parallel Earth??]

ep 2 -

What happened to the curfew mentioned by the guard in Rise of the Cybermen? People are clearly walking around after dark in the second episode.

ep 2 -

At a certain point you clearly see that Pete Tyler's ear pods are attached to a cork to enable them to fit snugly into his ears.

ep 2 -

Speaking of Pete's earpods, he takes them out far too early when the Doctor suggests removing them.

ep 2 -

Why is Rose so bothered about putting fake ear-pods on when her hair hides them anyway?

ep 2 -

Why does Crane seem to turn traitor so quickly on Lumic once the "broadcast" happened? Surely he knew Lumic's plans all along?

ep 2 -

As Lumic has his life support system sabotaged, we see shots of him flailing about, intersparsed with closeups of the Cybermen, with Lumic appearing to be unconscious in the background!

ep 2 -

The Doctor states that the "entire population" of London has been taken into the power station to be converted. Approximately 7.8 million people live in the Greater London area (which is how most people would interpret "the population of London") — and yes, Battersea Power Station is a pretty large building, but even remotely able to fit nearly 8 million people? I think not...

ep 2 -

When they go into the cooling tunnels, the first thing Mrs Moore says is that it's freezing — so why does she take her gloves off?

ep 2 -

The controlled Londoners are marching into the power station in perfect formation, equally spaced. That is, apart from a conveniently-placed gap exactly two spaces wide for Rose and Pete to slip into!

ep 2 -

Cybermen to the left, Cybermen to the right... hundreds of them everywhere — but when it comes to guarding the entrance of Lumic's Zeppelin, how convenient that two human guards are left behind, enabling Mickey & Jake to gain easy access to the airship! Why were they left behind when we see all of Lumic's other henchmen being led off for conversion?
[Just as well really — Jake's smelling salts wouldn't have worked quite so well on Cybermen guards!]

ep 2 -

When Pete and Rose are being led away to Cyber Control, and they try to look back and locate Cyber-Jackie, there's a group of Cybermen standing around and facing each other as if they're carrying on a conversation! One of them even looks to the camera and then turns back to the group of Cybermen. What on earth could they be talking about??
[It's like Earthshock all over again — even after being Cyber-converted, you can't stop people from standing around and having a natter like they're in the pub!]

ep 2 -

While the Doctor and Mrs Moore are in the tunnels, the Doctor taps on the face of a Cyberman and the sound is quite obviously plastic. But later on, when Mickey taps the Cyberman in the Zeppelin, the sound effects man must have come back from his tea break, as it sounds properly metallic.

ep 2 -

How the blazes does that Cyberman 'creep up' on Mrs Moore and the Doctor? As mentioned above, they make a STOMP STOMP noise every other time we see them moving around!

ep 2 -

So we're told that the emotional inhibitor is vital to the Cybermen, and indeed, we see later that disabling it makes them explode... if so, why on Earth did Lumic design the inhibitor to have an override code??
[Oops, I mean "why on ALTERNATE Earth"]

ep 1-2 -

Considering the bloodcurdling screams that accompanied the conversion process in Rise of the Cybermen, there's a noticeable absence of any screaming at the power station in the second episode!

ep 1-2 -

What happened to all those security blockades from episode 1? Did the possessed soldiers conveniently dismantle them all before going off to be converted?

ep 2 -

Look out for Cyber-Lumic's chair wobbling like a 70s Dalek as it comes through the doorway on the Zeppelin.
[Accidental blooper or deliberate homage??]

ep 2 -

When the Cyberman comes to life on the Zeppelin, the shot from behind shows it with its left arm already raised, then the next shot from the front shows it raising its left arm.

ep 2 -

Why don't the Cybermen start electrocuting the people running from the factory once the earpods are off? (Or hadn't they received orders?) At least one of the Cybermen is easily shoved aside by escapees!

ep 2 -

When Mickey and Jake pick up the video feed from Cyber Control, Mickey notes that the Doctor and Rose are still alive, but no mention is made of the fact that Mrs. Moore is not with them. Wouldn't Jake have noticed/cared what happened to his fellow freedom fighter?

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Lumic mentions in the first episode that the Cybermen brains are sustained in a vat of chemicals inside the Cyber-helmet. So when we see a Cyberman's head explode near the end of episode 2, shouldn't this liquid have gushed out, along with brain-bits?

ep 2 -

How or why is Lumic immune to the emotional inhibitors being deactivated?

ep 2 -

When the Doctor, Rose and Pete are heading towards the roof of the power station, the metal staircase they were running up had just been lapped with flames — shouldn't the handrails have been hot to the touch?

ep 2 -

Notice that the rope on the Zeppelin's ladder snaps roughly at the same point as the one that's been cut, and also snaps as soon as the cut happens — how on earth??

ep 1-2 -

In episode 1, the TARDIS lands in London during the daytime and the Doctor remarks that they should meet back there in 24 hours, after the power cell has charged up. But when they return to the TARDIS, it's still night time. So surely the power cell shouldn't be fully charged? (or else they're all VERY late for their rendezvous and another day has passed beyond what we see on screen)

ep 2 -

In the goodbye scene, the close-ups of Rose (with a grass background) don't match the long shots (showing the Houses of Parliament).

ep 2 -

At the end, how can Mickey be sure his nan is still alive (as a human)?

ep 1-2 -

Unless the seasons are different on parallel Earth, or runaway global warning has occurred, there are leaves visible on the trees (and some on the ground) even though the story is set in in February!

ep 1-2 -

The clock face of Big Ben seen in episode 1 is square, however it reverts back to round by the end of the following episode.
[In the first episode, Big Ben is represented by a CGI establishing shot & obviously The Mill changed the face to square to subtly suggest that this is a parallel Earth — however, the following episode is shot on location and hence it's the real Big Ben that we see, with its round face.]

ep 1-2 -

Throughout the story, the Cybermen make exactly the same STOMP STOMP STOMP sound, regardless of whether they're walking across hardwood flooring, gravel, or grass!

ep 1-2 -

Throughout both episodes, you'll notice that there are Cybermen of differing heights — in reality, that's obviously due to the different extras wearing the costumes, but in the episode, why would Cybus manufacture Cybersuits of ever-so-slightly different sizes??

ep 1-2 -

Major plot hole alert: OK, Lumic is dying and wants to gain immortality though Cyber-conversion. Fine. So why does he insist on having the entire populace converted too? To control them? But he can already control everyone through the earpods! Not to mention that it makes no business sense: Cybus Industries will lose their primary source of income by turning all their customers into Cybermen!
[OK, not that super-villains always need logical reasons for their nefarious schemes, but still...]

The Idiot's Lantern:

Despite being set in 1953, you can clearly see modern uPVC windows and double glazing all around the place.

Watch out for the crew, camera, boom mike and dolly track all reflecting in the Doctor's crash helmet at the start of the episode.

If the Doctor believed that he had arrived in New York, why ride out on a scooter with British number plates?
[Were the number plates slightly psychic...?]

The Doctor has his facts mixed up regarding Elvis — the famous performance of 'Hound Dog' which caused "loads of complaints" was actually on the Milton Berle Show, not Ed Sullivan.

The BBC's famous "bat's wings" ident are clearly visible on the televisions, but that logo wasn't introduced until December 1953, a whole 6 months after the Queen's Coronation.

And the episode of 'Take it from Here' heard on the Connolly's wireless wasn't actually broadcast until 15th June 1953, 2 weeks after the Coronation.

Notice that the entire family stay sitting during the National Anthem — highly unlikely, since it was very much the norm at the time to stand to attention no matter where/when "God Save the Queen" was played — in cinemas, at concerts, etc. (and of course, TV would be no different).
[Kids these days... no sense of patriotism]

If all The Wire's victims just stand still with "almost complete neural shutdown" as the Doctor puts it, why (or how) is Tommy's gran banging on the floor?

When the Doctor's exploring the warehouse where the police are stuffing all the faceless folk, you can hear his footsteps quite distinctly, even though he's wearing his usual sneakers.

So, there are all these people staggering about "sans visage", and yet no-one seems to have called a doctor or taken them to the hospital? Even in 1953, suddenly finding a family member missing a face would precipitate a hasty visit to casualty, wouldn't it? Why would anyone call the police? And even if they did, why would the police have the victims pacing around in cages like animals in a zoo? Why not put them in a hospital ward?

The TV aerial being attacked by the streamer thingy appears to be a UHF aerial — unfortunately, 625-line UHF broadcasting didn't hit the UK until 1964. A 1950s-style VHF aerial would be X or H-shaped instead.

The Doctor smashes a window in the door of Magpie's shop to get inside...but when he and Tommy come out afterwards, all the glass in the door appears to be intact.

When the Wire attacks the Doctor, Tommy and D.I. Bishop, how does Tommy escape being "de-faced", unlike the unfortunate copper?

Tommy states that they're in Muswell Hill — er, not with that view of Alexandra Palace, they're not. The location at the bottom of the hill suggests it's either Hornsey or Crouch End.

How do the Doctor and Tommy keep up with Magpie when they follow him to Alexandra Palace? Magpie not only has a head start, but he travels in a van rather than on foot, plus the Doctor and Tommy have to stop to collect their equipment, then set it up once they arrive. So how do they get to the transmitter so soon behind Magpie?
[Did he stop for a wee?]

The Doctor manages to bluff his way past the official by using his trusty old psychic paper to impersonate royalty. But why doesn't the official think it suspicious that the King of Belgium carries an ID card??

When the Doctor is climbing the TV mast towards the end, look carefully at one of the overhead shots to see his foot disappear for a split second as Tennant's shoe presumably strays outside the green-screen area.

So when the Wire gets "recorded" onto videotape, how exactly do the faces and minds get back to their right owners so quickly and neatly? Surely the Doctor just trapped the Wire, preventing further victims? (Unlikely the faces were broadcast back through the TV, since Rose, Gran, etc. would hardly have had a TV in their "cage"!)

The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit:

ep 1 -

When the TARDIS lands, look closely for what appears to be light streaming out between the joins in the roof!

ep 1 -

When the Doctor walks into the room with the "Welcome to Hell" graffiti, he initially faces the graffiti and takes a good look around. Then he turns his back to the graffiti and acts all surprised when Rose says "Welcome to Hell" — as if it would have been possible to miss something like that written on the wall right in front of you, especially when the rest of the room is pretty nondescript!

ep 1 -

In the scene where the crew first reveal the black hole to the Doctor and Rose, Ida pulls a lever, we hear a whirring and a bright light starts shining on our heroes, but then the camera cuts away to a wide angle, and it's only then that we see the doors start to open and the first chink of light come in.
[I know light travels fast, but...!]

ep 1 -

It's not just in the episode title, but the Doctor basically implies that it's "impossible" for anything to orbit a black hole without falling in. Which is complete poppycock — for example, it's generally accepted that there's a giant black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy, but most of the stars are happily orbiting it. You might as well say that it's impossible for the Moon to avoid falling onto the Earth!
[What's actually impossible is for something to be orbiting the black hole so closely, i.e. within the event horizon, but the Doctor doesn't specify that...]

ep 1 -

Oh, and furthermore, the planet is said to be in "geostationary orbit" around the black hole. How can it be in geostationary orbit if there's no geography to measure it against?
[Technically they should have said "synchronous orbit" which is similar, but not the same!]

ep 1 -

It's nice to see that they still have a 20th-century style Chubb fire extinguisher sitting around the control centre in the distant future. OK, it looks like it's been "dirtied down" to fit in, but the service history sticker and brand name are still clearly visible on the side!

ep 1 -

Ida berates the Doctor for asking the name of the planet, saying "Don't be stupid. It hasn't got a name. How could it have a name?" But less than 10 minutes later she casually mentions that the Faltino (whoever they are) had indeed given it a name: "Krop Tor — the bitter pill".
[A planet that doesn't have a name, and then suddenly does? Why, that's impossible!]

ep 1 -

When we see Scooti working outside in her spacesuit, she brings the wrist communicator up to her mouth to talk into it. Think about it: she's outside in a vacuum — i.e. there's no air to transmit the sound from her helmet to her wrist! And surely all space helmets would have a built-in microphone anyway?

ep 1 -

Another strange feature of the spacesuits: the helmets all have internal lights which look like they shine directly into the wearer's eyes. OK, it gives a nice effect for the camera, but in reality wouldn't that make it extremely difficult to see, especially in a dark environment?

ep 1 -

During the "Don't Turn Around" scene, a microphone is clearly visible at the bottom of the frame, on the left side. It even wobbles slightly!

ep 1 -

Watch out for some dodgy continuity before and after Scooti tries to escape from the "transformed" Toby. At the start of the scene, the set includes a Door 42, but once she goes to open Door 40, the second door has somehow been replaced by a wall.

ep 1 -

In the (admittedly creepy and effective) scene where Toby is standing on the planet sans spacesuit, his clothes appear to be blowing in the breeze — pretty impressive since it's supposed to be a complete vacuum!

ep 1 -

There's some strange stuff going on in this story around gravity. Firstly, why or how does Scooti end up floating above the base? By this point we've already seen Scooti herself walking around on the surface (and of course later the TARDIS falls into a chasm) so we can see that the planet clearly has a reasonably strong gravitational field, but Scooti appears to be floating too close to the surface to realistically have escaped its pull.
[Sorry if I've just spoiled the haunting poignancy of the scene for you]

ep 1 -

Scooti's unfortunate journey into the vacuum also has the strange side-effect of turning her into a mirror image of herself! Look closely at her wrist communicator: throughout the episode up to this point it's consistently been on her left hand (from her perspective) but as she floats through space it can clearly be seen on her right hand instead.

ep 1 -

After Ida haltingly refers to Scooti as being "twenty... twenty years old", she walks over to close the shutters. As we cut to the Doctor's face, you can see the floor panel underneath him wobble as Ida steps off it.

ep 1 -

In the opening scene, the TARDIS arrives behind door 15, and we see Rose and the Doctor go through doors 15, 16 and 17 to reach the habitation area. Later, on their way back to find the TARDIS, Rose and the Doctor simply pass through door 15 and try to spot the TARDIS through the window of door 16 instead.
[No wonder they couldn't find it!]

ep 1 -

After the TARDIS is supposedly "lost", Ida tells the Doctor: "I'll put you on the duty roster. We need someone in the laundry." This seems odd, since only a few minutes earlier the Doctor had worked out a calculation in mere moments that had taken the crew "two years" to figure out. Surely they could think of something more useful for the Doc to do than washing smelly socks? Besides, wouldn't the Ood already be in charge of the laundry? If not, why bother having them??
[Was Ida joking? She doesn't sound like it]

ep 1 -

Um, if there's a gaping chasm leading directly to the heart of the planet, why are the crew bothering to drill a hole from the surface? Why not go straight down the chasm?

ep 1 -

When we first see the graphic of the lift descending into the heart of the planet, we see an oxygen reading in the 30% range. When we see it again, and the lift is supposedly further away from the base, the reading is now above 40%. Oops!

ep 1 -

Secondly on the list of "gravity bloopers": the Doctor and Ida experience what looks like normal gravity when they get to the centre of the planet, whereas they should really be at close to zero-g. (The same would happen with any planet — gravity decreases as you approach the centre due to the pull of all the matter above & around you)
[OK, OK, perhaps they're wearing gravity boots of some kind, or maybe the pit has its own artificial gravity system — when you're dealing with ancient technology capable of keeping a planet suspended above a black hole, a temporary absence of normal physics isn't much to complain about, is it?]

ep 1 -

Ida says the trapdoor is "massive... about 30 feet in diameter". Er... no it isn't. Not even close!
[Never mind the oddity of the crew still using imperial units so far in the future — though maybe by then a "foot" is less than 12 inches?]

ep 2 -

Strategy 9 sounds pretty straightforward — gather the crew in one part of the base, and open the airlocks in the remainder of the base. So why would opening a few airlocks require "100% power"?

ep 2 -

Jefferson states that the "ventilation shafts" don't actually contain any air, since they aren't intended for life forms (hence all the kerfuffle about needing to fill them with oxygen) — but if that's true, why do they have air grilles where the shafts connect to the base? (Noticeable when Rose emerges into the corridor)

ep 2 -

Shouldn't those maintenance tunnels be littered by Ood corpses after a few bursts of decompression?

ep 2 -

The snapped lift cable changes its appearance by the time Ida and the Doctor gather it up to go abseiling down the pit — by then it's noticeably thinner than before and has acquired a clear/blue-ish plastic coating.

ep 2 -

Although the moment when Toby turns to the Ood and puts his finger to his lips is supremely creepy, why is it actually necessary? The Beast's controlling both of them!

ep 2 -

The Doctor puts his foot on the rim of the Pit when he gives that macho speech about wanting to jump. But you can see his spacesuit isn't sealed at the ankle — his trouser leg is flapping around above the boot!

ep 2 -

And OK, so the Doctor throws himself down the Pit, not knowing how deep it is, or if he can survive the fall. Any particular reason why he doesn't take a quick look downwards with that ruddy great torch hanging from his belt? Or even drop the torch down to see how far it would fall...?

ep 2 -

The escape rocket is too small! The obvious assumptions are that it's either purpose-designed as an escape vehicle, or is simply the same rocket the crew used to arrive on the planet — but either way, we see only 5 chairs: where would the rest of the original crew have fit?? (Including Scooti, Jefferson, the original captain who died, etc.)

ep 2 -

We know there's an opening to the surface, but still: could the Doctor really have heard the rocket leaving from well over 10 miles underground??

ep 2 -

If the mysterious ancient people from the cave painting thought the Beast was so dangerous it was worth trapping with a couple of pots next to a black hole, why didn't they just fling it into the black hole in the first place?

ep 2 -

The Doctor's "gamble" at the end doesn't make sense — he's aware that breaking the vase and hence the gravity funnel will send the rocket into the black hole, killing Rose... But how could be possibly know that Rose is on the rocket? She was intent on waiting for the Doctor at the base ("just like he waited for me" as she puts it) — it was just by chance that Zach "kidnapped" her and forced her on board the escape rocket. How could the Doctor have foreseen that?
[Yes, breaking the gravity funnel would eventually doom everyone on the base & the planet too, but the Doc only mentions Rose in conjunction with the rocket's demise]

ep 2 -

Why or how does the rocket turn around to face the black hole when the gravity funnel collapses and the rocket starts being pulled in? Surely it would keep facing the same way it was, but just be pulled backwards by gravity? For that matter, why does it also turn around (away from the black hole) when the Doctor starts towing it with the TARDIS?

ep 2 -

When the Doctor confronts the Beast in the pit, several (at least four) shots of David Tennant's face have been flipped left-to-right, making them mirror images. Keep an eye on the little oval thingy on the strap on the left-hand side of his spacesuit to confirm this.

ep 2 -

Rose is able to shatter the rocket's window with a single shot from a bolt gun. Not very strong, is it? Fat lot of good that'd do you against a meteorite!
[Maybe the rocket has energy shields on the outside to prevent space debris damaging the window, but if so, wouldn't that prevent the air loss?]

ep 2 -

When Rose undoes Toby's seatbelt, why doesn't the Beast just jump out of Toby and into one of the other crew members?

ep 2 -

It's a bit daft that the rocket's emergency shield requires Zach to press a button in order to activate it after the window shatters. Didn't the rocket's designers think the crew would have other things on their mind during an emergency (like a complete lack of oxygen due to decompression) to worry about pressing buttons? Not to mention that sudden decompression of the cabin would be dead easy to detect via the ship's sensors & hence easy to make automatic. In many ways it's similar to a car's airbag — and imagine if you had to press a button to use one of those during a crash!
[Come on, this isn't rocket science... Oh hang on, it is!]

ep 2 -

In a similar vein, since we have a relatively small rocket cabin suddenly exposed to the vacuum of space, you'd expect that all the air would be sucked out the window nearly instantly — so Zach wouldn't have been able to say "Emergency shields" (or at least, we wouldn't have heard him say it, due to there being no air to carry the sound waves). Not to mention that Rose and the crew wouldn't have continued to breathe somewhat normally during & after the decompression, in the way they appear to on screen.

ep 2 -

When Toby is sucked out of the rocket, he is facing the black hole. Immediately afterwards, he can be seen with his back to the black hole instead.

ep 2 -

At the end, the Doctor says he "only had time for one trip" in the TARDIS before the planet hit the black hole. Er, has he forgotten that the TARDIS is a time machine?

ep 2 -

Besides, if the Doctor genuinely only had time for one trip, why did he decide to save one human life instead of many Ood?
[Little bit out-of-character for the Doc]

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Rose finds time to change her knickers at some point during the story: in The Impossible Planet, she can be clearly seen to be wearing black undies, but by the time she hugs the Doctor in the TARDIS at the end of the second episode, she's changed to maroon!

Love & Monsters:

During the "Scooby Doo" chase at the start, the levels of liquid on the floor change at each jump-cut.

Towards the beginning when Ursula is operating the camera, we see the usual "frame marks" on the camcorder's viewfinder, then cut away to a flashback, and then back to the camcorder POV, only there are no frame marks this time.

When Elton's windows are smashed in, he describes it as happening on Christmas Day at 7:45am. Yet it's clearly a bright sunny day outside — it's usually dark in December at that time in London (or darkish at least!)

How could the Internet being "on meltdown" make Elton's computer explode?

The "musical miming" to ELO is very badly done. In particular, Mr Skinner on drums visibly makes no attempt to strike anything other than the snare, when we can clearly hear all parts of the drumkit on the soundtrack.

After Jackie spills wine on Elton's shirt, he goes off to get some pizza, but when he comes back the shirt is spotless!

Jackie thinks a tenner is enough to pay for two pizzas? In London?
[Doesn't get out much, does she?]

Why does Elton take the photo of Rose with him every time he goes to see Jackie? Pretty stupid thing to do, because of the risk of her finding it (and of course she does).

How come as the LINDAites head away from their HQ, they can't hear the screams of their teammates being absorbed by Victor?

Just after Ursula is absorbed, and before Elton gets chased, the Abzorbaloff has his cane in his left hand/trotter. But in the shot where he exits the building chasing after Elton at speed, it's suddenly in his right trotter instead.

If Victor can't let Elton go free because he's seen the Abzorbaloff's true form, why is he quite happy to chase Elton through the streets in his true form?

It appears to be raining on Elton when the Abzorbaloff corners him, but when the camera cuts back to the Abzorbaloff, it's as dry as a bone.

How does the Doctor know where to find Elton at the end?

And how does the Doctor recognise Elton? The last time he saw him was as a three-year-old child!

When we see Elton's mum dead in the living room, there's a very obvious camera shadow moving along the couch at the right-hand side of the screen, which unfortunately detracts from the emotion of the scene once you notice it.
[Maybe that's the Elemental Shade creature the Doctor was chasing — you never know, some aliens might be camera-shaped!]

Fear Her:

With three abductions of children in the last six days, surely Dame Kelly Holmes Close would have been crawling with police?

How does the "scribble creature" get from Chloe's room to the garage once it's been drawn?

The Doctor asks Rose "Are you deducting?" Er, surely he means "deducing"?

While in Chloe's house, Rose asks if she can go to the toilet and Trish agrees, but doesn't try and tell Rose where it is. Surely everyone would automatically do that when hosting strangers in their house? If you don't, you're practically inviting someone to take a peek in every room!
[Maybe we should go easy on the poor woman, she's clearly got a lot on her mind]

And why does Rose feel the need to sneak upstairs and hide in the cupboard when Trish already implied she'd take Rose and the Doctor to see Chloe?

Chloe appears to colour in her drawings without changing pencils.

When the Doctor is caught sampling Trish's jam, we see him sucking one of his fingers. In the next shot, he suddenly has two fingers in his mouth.

If all the drawings are supposed to come to life, why not the picture of the Isolus's mother? Or the one of the solar flare?
[I'd be more worried about having that appear in my house than some demon-father-monster thing]

It seems odd that the council would bother fixing potholes on Dame Kelly Holmes Close, when the torch isn't even going down that street. Surely they'd be focussing their scarce resources on the torch route itself?

It appears as if Rose leaves the axe outside with Kel (the council man), but when she goes into the Webber house and runs upstairs to break down Chloe's door, she conveniently has the axe with her again.

How can it be sunset at the Olympic Stadium (as shown in the news footage) but broad daylight in Dame Kelly Holmes Close?

Everyone in the stadium vanishes — everyone, that is, apart from the cameramen, since TV footage is still coming from the empty stadium!

And why doesn't the stadium itself disappear when Chloe draws it? OK, perhaps the Isolus only takes life forms — but if that's true, why do the kids' clothes disappear along with them?

On a similar note, if Chloe had finished the drawing of the Earth, wouldn't the planet itself have disappeared, not just the people..?

When Chloe starts drawing the Earth on the wall, why doesn't anyone just take the pencils away from her?

OK, so thousands of people vanish from a stadium on live television, but a couple of minutes later BBC commentator Huw Edwards is cheerily describing the continued progress of the torch as if nothing has happened!

Immediately after the disappearance in the stadium, Huw Edwards says that "over 80,000 spectators and 13,000 athletes" have disappeared. Later when everyone reappears and the crowd are watching the Doctor with the Olympic Flame, he says that "80,000 athletes and spectators" have reappeared. Did 13,000 stay vanished?

The torch runner passes a boy with spiky black hair and a yellow T-shirt at the end of Kelly Holmes Close... but then runs past him again just before collapsing outside the stadium!

After the torch-bearer collapses, Huw Edwards solemnly asks "does this mean that the Olympic Dream is dead?" Why? Just because some bloke fell over??

Why does Rose believe that the Doctor hasn't come back to reality? He wasn't snatched in the street, so why should he reappear there?

At the end, where on earth does Rose get the cake from?

Army of Ghosts / Doomsday:

ep 1 -

In the pre-title sequence with Rose on the bus, we see her from outside with one man sitting behind her, and another man behind the first. Cut to inside the bus, and the man immediately behind Rose appears to have vanished!
[Though if you look closely, he's actually moved back a row. Perhaps he doesn't like the smell of chips?]

ep 1 -

Jackie says the "ghosts" only started appearing two months ago — doesn't it seem implausible that everybody everywhere seems to have convinced themselves so quickly that the ghosts are actually the dearly departed?

ep 1 -

How do they manage to persuade the ghosts to participate on both Trisha Goddard's chat show and an episode of EastEnders? Do ghosts take stage direction??
[Also, after the big cliffhanger reveal, wouldn't you love to see the follow-up episode of Trisha where the woman in love with the ghost discovers that he's really a Cyberman?!]

ep 1 -

The position of the sun, illuminating only the far left of the Taj Mahal dome, doesn't appear to move from the "noon" shot to the much later hour when the Cybermen fully appear.

ep 1 -

In the first shot in the sphere room when we see Dr Rajesh, watch out for a brief reflection of the crew in the cabinet he closes.

ep 1 -

How can psychic paper open an electronic lock?

ep 1 -

If Torchwood is such a secret organisation, how did Mickey find out about it, much less get a job there?
[Their vacancies aren't exactly going to be posted on a board at the Job Centre!]

ep 1 -

During the tour of the Torchwood HQ, as Yvonne pushes open the door to introduce the Doctor to their "alien artefacts" vault, she uses one hand, but as the camera jump-cuts to the door opening, she's using both hands at the same time.

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Yvonne proudly proclaims that "Torchwood refuses to go metric", but earlier in the episode she had quoted the ghost energy power as measuring "five thousand gigawatts". Where's the horsepower, lady?
[In case you're wondering, the non-metric conversion works out as 6.7 billion horsepower. That's a lot of horses!]

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How does Torchwood manage to move an object that has no mass and does not emit any electromagnetic signature (apart from, bizarrely, wavelengths in the visible spectrum) from its point of origin after coming through the Rift to its location in the vault, high up in Canary Wharf tower?
[Just as well it doesn't have any mass — how would they have fit it into the lift??]

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Towards the end when they do the big ghost shift... look where ~~Martha's~~ Adeola's hands are! Her keyboard appears to be hovering about a foot off the table, with her little fingers poised up at shoulder height. Not what I'd call an ergonomic typing position!

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Before Adeola and her two colleagues get "hijacked" by the Cybermen, they each have one earpiece, in their right ears. Afterwards, they have two earpieces...suggesting that the Cyber-earpiece is in the left ear. BUT... it's Adeola's right earpiece that the Doctor zaps, and the same earpiece that Yvonne removes which has the "brain matter" attached to it.

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As the Cyberman barges down the front door with the family huddled on the stairs, you get to see the wire helping the door fall in — not once but twice — at the bottom left of the shot. The first time it makes the carpet ride up too, and the second it's even more plainly visible.

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Mickey appears to have a different top on between taking off his lab coat and picking up his weapon a minute later.

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So there are five million Cybermen across the whole planet — sounds like a lot, but don't forget there are over 7 billion people on Earth! So the Cybermen would be spread pretty thinly (less than one Cyberman per 1,000 people) — but they seem to be packing them in two-to-a-house in London!
[What a waste of scarce Cyber-resources! Or else their occupation of Earth isn't as total as the episode implies...]

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Speaking of which, why do those Cybermen simply wander around that family's house looking ominous instead of, I don't know, converting or killing them?

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While the Cybermen and Daleks are being "introduced" to each other, the Doctor phones Rose. When we see the screen of her mobile, the call duration counter shows 56 seconds, even though she's only just answered it.

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At the end of their first meeting, the Dalek zaps the Cybermen and we see one fall to the floor just inches away from the Dalek — but in the prior shot, the Dalek was yards away!

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How do the Cybermen manage to get themselves and their upgrading/earpod-making facility into the well-populated (and supposedly secure) Torchwood HQ and behind the plastic curtains without anyone noticing them?

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When we see the conversion area and hear the screams of the Cyber-convertees (and again at the end of the scene when Yvonne gets converted), we also see showers of sparks as the Cyber-saws cut into their victims. Er, how? Cutting through soft human tissue (even bone) doesn't usually produce a fireworks display!
[OK, sometimes people have a steel plate surgically implanted in their head after an accident, but it's not that common!]

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When Jake encounters the Doctor, he explains why the freedom fighters have come all the way from Alternate-Earth by saying "The Cybermen came through from one world to another — and so did we." But why did they bother? Why not just be glad to see the back of the Cybermen, and get on with rebuilding Alt-Earth?
[Was it too boring without the Cybermen?]

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Considering how far Pete and Jackie have to run to each other to embrace (and during the hug we get a fairly good view of how far Pete has come), how did they manage to hear each other during their previous conversation without having to shout?

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When the huge Dalek vs. Cybermen vs. soldiers fight is going on in the basement, Rose and company hide behind a plywood and glass door mere yards away. Wouldn't the (presumably concrete) door frame have been much better cover?

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As the Daleks come through into the Torchwood hangar with the Genesis Ark, and the Cybermen start firing at them, in the high shot of the hangar, there's a Cyberman on the far left who doesn't move or do anything at all. While all the other Cybes are busy blasting away, he just kneels there and aims at the Daleks but doesn't bother to fire!
[Slacker!]

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How was the Doctor planning to keep the void open by himself? He clearly knows from his tour of Torchwood in the first episode that there are two separate Levers of Doom™ (and he deliberately steals two magnaclamps for the same reason), so surely he must have realised that he'd need a helper?

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When the Doctor steals the magnaclamps, as he runs back out of the room holding them both, the door doesn't appear to be open wide enough for him to fit through. But somehow, he does!

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Just as the Dalek/Cyber fighting is about to kick off outside, the Cybermen marching around the street corner are walking five abreast in the close-ups, but only four abreast in the long shots.

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In the same scene, watch out for a woman with a red coat, who stops and throws her arms up long before the Dalek blast hits her.

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After the soldier/Cyberman battle on the bridge, when everyone looks out the window of Torchwood Tower, we can see fires blazing all over London. But later on when Dalek Sec elevates into the sky with the Genesis Ark, all the fires have seemingly gone out and there's not even any smoke remaining in the air.
[Are the London Fire Brigade that efficient?? I doubt many Londoners would agree...]

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Dalek Sec starts the episode having (ahem) black balls... but in the CGI effect of him flying into the air over London with the Genesis Ark, they've turned silver!

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While being pulled into the void, it's awfully considerate of the Daleks and Cybermen to go in through the same broken window of the Torchwood building (i.e. without causing further damage), no matter what direction they were initially coming from.
[Very gracious in defeat, I must say]

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Pete's last-minute rescue of Rose is nicely dramatic and all, but wait a sec — how does he manage to materialise in exactly the right spot at exactly the right moment to save her??

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Unfortunately for the plot arc, the name of the Norwegian beach (Dårlig Ulv Stranden) actually translates as "Poor-Quality Wolf Beach", not "Bad Wolf Bay" as claimed by Rose.

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How is the Doctor's hair ruffling in the breeze while on the beach? He's a holographic projection and is "really" standing inside the TARDIS!
[Maybe it's hot inside the TARDIS and he has the air-conditioning going full blast?]

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In the final shot of the Land Rover on the beach, you can see a foot (presumably belonging to a crewmember) appear from behind the rear nearside wheel.

To be continued...
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