The End Of The World: | ||
 | – | After the Doctor fiddles with Rose's mobile phone, he doesn't put the cover on the back before handing it to her, yet it's suddenly there when she phones her mum. |
| – | When Rose actually phones Jackie, look carefully at the phone's screen. You can see the words 'Contact Name' at the top of the screen, a flashing cursor, and the 'OK' and 'Clear' commands at the bottom of the screen... all of which makes it a dead giveaway that this contact is being created in the phone's memory, not actually being called. |
| – | At the beginning, when the Doctor and Rose are looking at Earth from the Station while Rose is talking on her mobile, you see them from the outside looking in, and the Doctor has his hands in his pockets. When you see them from behind, the Doctor has his hands behind his back instead, then back to the front view and they're instantly back in his pockets. |
| – | Also while Rose is phoning her mum, notice that the Doctor has his mouth shut. The camera angle changes and instantly his mouth is open. |
 | – | Why did the 'National Trust' move the continents back to their configuration from Rose's time? Why would this period be considered 'classic' Earth as opposed to any other era out of billions of years of Earth's history? |
| – | When Rose is walking through the corridors of the station, just before she gets knocked to the ground, her shoes make quite a bit of noise (almost as if she's wearing high heels) — certainly a lot more noise than trainers/sneakers should make! |
| – | When the exposed sunlight starts making whopping great cracks in the windows, why isn't the air sucked out of the room that Rose is trapped in? |
| – | When Rose and Cassandra are in conversation, they're shot intermittently from behind, looking out of the Space Station window. In the shots from behind, Cassandra's lips don't appear to move at all, though we still hear her speak. |
| – | After her chat with Cassandra (the trampoline speech) Rose leaves the observation room with her silver ball in her hand. But she'd already put it down, before the mobile phone speech. |
| – | At what point did Rose lose the top she was wearing? She had it on for most of the episode but it disappears at some stage. Then at the end, when the Doctor takes her back to present day Earth she's wearing it again. Are we to assume when the Doctor walked her back to the TARDIS, she nipped off to fetch it? |
| – | The CGI work on the "spider-bots" goes to great lengths to make them seem real (like that lovely moment when the virtual creatures "bump" into the camera) so it's a shame that the illusion is a little spoiled by the spider on the steward's desk not casting a reflection. |
| – | As the Doctor and Jabe walk along a corridor on their way to sort out the spider problem, you can see them walk through the same section twice: look overhead to spot a distinctive-looking metal frame with wires hanging around it. |
| – | Why put the system restore switch in such an inaccessible location? Having to dodge giant fans in order to get to such an important control beggars belief.
[So you don't accidentally press it when adjusting the air conditioning?] |
| – | Little strange that the temperature is hot enough for Jabe to burn to a crisp, while the Doctor isn't even sweating in his leather jacket.
[Granted, he's standing next to a whopping great fan at the time.] |
| – | Those fans were huge, and spinning very quickly. Surely they would have created a very strong breeze (which is what they were there for!), but the Doctor was standing an inch away from the last fan when it was at full speed, and there didn't seem to be any turbulence whatsoever. |
| – | Why exactly does Jabe have to sacrifice herself? Why couldn't she or the Doctor jam the lever thingy with its cover, or a shoe, or snap a bit off Jabe's head and wedge it in? Or use the sonic screwdriver to fuse the thing in place? Even if Jabe was so determined to sacrifice herself for the greater good, rather than just lean on the lever, why didn't she sit on it? (Keeping it pressed down even after she burned to a crisp) |
| – | When Rose is about to be fried by the sun's rays, she runs up and down the stairs to bang on the doors and avoid the rays. While she does, the long shots show most of the doors as being incinerated, but in the close-ups (as she starts banging again) they look fine. |
| – | How did the Doctor free Rose from the viewing suite she was trapped in? She gets out when he lowers the force field, but are we meant to believe that switch is a melted-door-opener as well? |
| – | Cassandra's back-up plan seems a little strange. How will she explain her survival without being punished for using a teleportation device? |
| – | How come when Cassandra bursts into bits, none of it hits the Doctor and Rose? They are quite clearly facing her/him at the time. |
| – | After Earth blows up and Cassandra dies, there's a scene where Rose and the Doctor stare out of the window at the Sun. Staring at the Sun will blind you pretty quickly (as any fule kno) but Rose and the Doctor were staring for twenty seconds or more without having to break out the guide dogs.
[Rose did the same thing earlier when she nearly got roasted — doesn't she ever learn?] |
| – | The Doctor is noticeably paler and more unshaven in the final scene on present-day Earth.
[Was it a long and rough journey home?] |
| – | At the end, it looks like the TARDIS materialises on a busy street in broad daylight without anyone batting an eyelid! |