Boom Town: | ||
 | – | Mickey is supposedly arriving from London, but the train arriving at Cardiff Central at the beginning of the episode is moving towards London (i.e. from Swansea).
[This is Mickey we're talking about, so let's face it, he probably fell asleep... or forgot to get off at Cardiff and had to travel back.] |
| – | Noel Clarke fluffs his lines when Mickey is talking to Rose about waiting for her. |
| – | The newspaper the Doctor snatches is the (real) Western Mail, yet the reporter is from the (fictitious) Cardiff Gazette. |
| – | The newspaper article with the picture of Margaret on gets printed and distributed within a matter of hours of it being taken — seems slightly odd that it would happen the same day.
[Though the marvel of digital photography does make it at least faintly plausible.] |
| – | The picture on the front of the paper shows Margaret with her hand covering her face in reaction to the photographer, but when the photo is taken, we hear the shutter click, then Margaret puts her hand up to shield herself. The photo would have been one of Margaret unawares - it's only when she hears the shutter that she becomes defensive. |
| – | The Doctor doesn't seem to have planned his visit to the Mayor's office very well — why does he bother talking to Margaret's secretary? Why not just flash his good old psychic paper to gain admittance? And surely he would have anticipated Margaret trying to escape out the window, so why not wait for Mickey, Rose & Jack to get into position outside before he announced himself? |
| – | Why did Margaret have her hi-tech surfboard built as part of the model of the nuclear power station? Wouldn't it have been more secure to keep it, oh I don't know, in a safe? A cupboard? Behind the sofa? |
| – | OK, so "Blaidd Drwg" (Welsh for "Bad Wolf") was used for the project name — but why did no Welsh people ask why the project is called "Bad Wolf"? |
| – | How does someone get elected mayor of Cardiff without getting their photo taken once? |
| – | As for how she got elected Mayor of Cardiff and got a nuclear power station planned, all within 6 months of emerging from a skip in the Isle of Dogs? All of that would take more like 6 years! |
| – | If the Slitheen can kill by shooting poison darts or breathing on people, why go to all the trouble of spending half an hour climbing out of a suit and hoping your victim is dumb enough to have stood around while you do it? |
| – | When the Doctor and Margaret rush out of the restaurant to investigate the rift eruption, she complains about getting electrocuted by the limiting bracelet due to being a slower runner than the Doctor, so he takes it off her. But then they run the rest of the way holding hands! Where was the need to take the bracelet off then? She's never going to be more than 10 feet away while holding the Doctor's hand! |
| – | Why did no authority figures surround the TARDIS when it was emitting a light display that lit up the sky and caused havoc in Cardiff? Or afterwards when the TARDIS was still hanging around? Police, army, Torchwood, anyone?? |
| – | If Margaret can quickly shed her human arm/sleeve in order to menace Rose with her Slitheen arm, why doesn't she do that to get rid of the limiting bracelet...? |
| – | Speaking of Margaret's human arm, how can a three-fingered Slitheen correctly operate a five-fingered hand while wearing a human skin suit? |
| – | As Rose runs towards the TARDIS at one point, a crack appears in some stone columns as she passes. Later, when she leaves the TARDIS to find Mickey and passes the same place, the crack on the front of the left column has disappeared. |
| – | So what closed the rift exactly? There it goes ripping the planet apart and then suddenly, oh, it's stopped! Did the TARDIS just absorb all the energy as fuel, or were we not supposed to notice after being distracted by the "soul of the TARDIS" turning Margaret into an egg?! |
| – | If Slitheen grow from eggs, why do they have a belly button?
[Related to the Crazy Frog perhaps?] |
| – | When Rose is trying to pronounce "Raxacoricofallapatorious", the Doctor is standing against the door frame, but when he tries pronouncing it, he's standing in the middle of the door frame. Finally, in the next shot of the Doctor, he's back to standing against the door frame again. |