Dalek:

10 At the start they mention that a previous technician who touched the Dalek burst into flames. Which instantly begs two questions:
  • Why didn't the Dalek absorb the technician's DNA?
  • Why didn't Rose burst into flames?

20 OK, so the story is set in 2012, and Van Statten's bunker is chock full of alien technology and artefacts... so surely they'd have something more advanced than a bloody chain to hold the Dalek prisoner? Or a drill to torture him??
[What is this, the Spanish Inquisition?]

30 So who exactly turns the lights on in the cell when the Doctor goes in to talk to the "Metaltron"? If it was Van Statten or his staff, why didn't they flick the switch before the Doc entered the room? Or is it the Dalek who controls the lights??
[You can just imagine Van Statten saying "OK, we're going to chain you up and torture you, but on the bright side, you can turn the lights off when you want some rest!"]

40 With a security breach that major, surely the guards would have had a sniff around and noticed the great big blue police box standing about twenty feet away from them under a spotlight?

50 On a related note, the TARDIS is left with its doors apparently open — the light is still spilling out when all the guards rush to capture the Doctor and Rose — but nobody in this Museum of Alien Artifacts is remotely interested in it even being there, let alone noticing that there's something odd inside. (Plus, at the end, the doors are seen to be shut and locked as the Doctor lets himself and the others in.)

60 When Rose goes to touch the Dalek, in the wide shot she places her hand to the right of his eyepiece. Then in close-up, her hand is touching to the left of his eyepiece.

70 OK, so it's somewhat plausible that a Dalek can somehow sample DNA to rebuild itself — but it's inferred that this will also transfer emotions, experience and ideas...??

80 The guard who announces that the Dalek has escaped from the cage says "I repeat — this is not a drill"... but it's the first time he's said it!

90 The map of the US is incomplete — some state borders are missing, so the country appears to have only 42 states instead of the current 48 continental states. Also, the map is missing a big chunk of the state of Michigan — the area known as the "Upper Peninsula" (on the southern shore of Lake Superior).
[OK, this episode (broadcast in 2005) was set in 2012, so you could argue the production team were allowing some leeway for political boundaries to change in the following 7 years. Were they really expecting Canada to annex part of Michigan though??]

100 The escaping Dalek fires a shot into a series of canisters marked "flammable", which then emit some kind of fog into the room. Just a few seconds later, sprays of sparks should have ignited the so-called "flammable" gas, but there was no explosion at all.

110 How can the Dalek 'calculate' the combination code? To be pedantic, you can't calculate a random code! There's nothing to calculate — it's just randomly chosen. The Dalek could've used a scanning device to physically check the actual setting (or to ascertain the response of the system to different wrong codes — a common way of hacking electronic systems). Or it could've simply tried combinations very quickly (though most such systems only allow new attempts after a specified period, to stop people doing that). But it certainly couldn't 'calculate' it, super-genius or not. All it can do is guess!

120 Furthermore, the lock has got 100 million combinations, not a billion. (8 digits, not 9)

130 The Doctor didn't exactly rush when the Dalek broke free... he took time to change back into his jumper and leather jacket.

140 When the Doctor starts raising his voice in Van Statten's office, his voice seems to echo a lot more than you would expect it to in a room that size, almost as if it was really just a set in a large warehouse.
[Surely not!]

150 After the Dalek has escaped and is roaming free, Rose and Adam encounter the armed guards. As they run in, Rose is standing at Adam's right, but when the camera angle changes, she's standing to his left.

160 The security forces are wearing their American flag patches backwards on their right shoulders. The flag "looks" correct, in that the stars are to the left, but in reality, American troops wear the flag patch back-to-front on their right shoulders, i.e. so the stars are on the right (so they can be closer to your heart, apparently.) See this page if you don't believe me.
[Hard to fault the Beeb for getting this wrong, but we're not here to give them an easy time!]

170 When the Dalek turns on the sprinklers, there's no steam, even though a few minutes earlier it was hot enough to vapourise bullets. I know it can obviously turn off this shield, allowing Rose to touch it, but surely something that hot couldn't cool down so fast?

180 Why did all the guards die despite having bloody great rubber soles on their boots? The camera even lingered on one soldier's boots — clearly rubber (an excellent insulator) and not even slightly melted!
[Though, in fairness, streaming wet rubber soles might just do the trick]

190 When the Dalek was going up the stairs several levels behind them, why couldn't Rose and Adam double-back in the lift and make a run for the TARDIS?

200 So the Dalek is clever enough to float up the stairs, but not clever enough to just float up the gap in the middle of the stairwell, in a fraction of the time?

210 When they're tracking the Dalek's progress on the monitor, the dot representing the Dalek appears to travel up one flight in around three seconds, when in reality it appears to take more like 20 seconds.

220 The computer used for closing the bulkheads with had a UK keyboard (look out for the pound sign).
[You won't find many of those in Utah!]

230 Why didn't the Doctor & Van Statten just shut the bulkhead door halfway down and let Adam and Rose roll underneath it to escape the Dalek?
[The Daleks may have conquered stairs, but they haven't learnt to limbo]

240 Also, Rose and Adam literally run for their lives as the doors were closing. So Rose should have been out of breath when she reached the closed door — but she was able to talk normally on the phone.

250 Rather odd that there was such a huge kerfuffle about having to use emergency power quickly to seal the bulkhead door before it failed, then once the Doctor decided to open it again, all it took was pressing "Enter" on a keyboard.

260 When Rose steps back from the Dalek at the end, there's an audible sound of polystyrene as she treads on some debris on the floor.
[All the best nuclear bunkers are made from polystyrene, didn't you know?]

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