Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways:

10ep 1 – The transmat used to suck the Doctor & co. out of the TARDIS and bring them to the Game Station didn't just transport them across space, but roughly 200,000 years through time too. If the Daleks have this technology, why are they so scared of the Doctor? Why not dispose of him by transmatting him 200,000 years further back into the past (or the future) without his TARDIS? Or just transmat him into the vacuum of space?

20ep 1 – It's meant to be the year 200,000 — i.e. 197 millennia in the future — and yet the Trinny & Susannah robots describe Jack's clothes as "so 20th century". That far into the future, wouldn't they'd be more likely to say "so 2nd millennium"? If they're still using the same century-numbering scheme as we do, then they'd refer to their own time as the "2001st century" which doesn't exactly trip off the tongue. Whereas if they're not using the same numbering scheme (e.g. if they "reset" the century count every few thousand years) then multiple "20th centuries" would have passed since our time.

30ep 1 – How did Jack know about the "games" (plural) when he first turned up to meet the Doctor? He only experienced What Not To Wear, which isn't a game show.

40ep 1 – Did anyone think it was strange that they had higher security in the studios than in the brig? The BB house was super-escape-proof — resistant even to the sonic screwdriver — meanwhile, dangerous escapees were placed behind a wire mesh with only a couple of dozy guards to mind them.

50ep 1 – For that matter, why would a society kill people for not knowing their trivia, but merely imprison armed and dangerous criminals?

60ep 1 – When the Doctor and Jack look at the expanse of space where the transmat beams terminate, the Horsehead Nebula is clearly visible in the background. Very pretty, but the Horsehead Nebula is almost 1,500 light years away, hardly "on the edge of the Solar System" as Jack notes.

70ep 1 – It's pointless for Station 5 to mask sonar to prevent detection of the Dalek ships... sonar relies on sound waves, which don't travel through the vacuum of space.

80ep 1 – So why would the Daleks with 200 ships need to spend 100 years messing with the Earth's TV shows — how or why did they expect the Doctor to turn up again?
[Or are they just huge gameshow fans?]

90ep 2 – The forcefield only seemed to extend a short distance away from the TARDIS when the Daleks shot at the Doctor. He then walked off to a point closer to the emperor — didn't he move outside the forcefield?!

100ep 2 – What happens to the smoking remains of the Dalek who gets blown up inside the TARDIS? Seems implausible that the Doctor, Rose or Jack would have time to move it before they arrived back on Satellite 5 — and it isn't there when the Doctor sends Rose home.
[Does the TARDIS have a housekeeper?]

110ep 2 – Rodrick (the Weakest Link winner) mentions that the Daleks were destroyed. How does he know about them?

120ep 2 – About 12 minutes in, while Captain Jack is trying to get his posse together, the boom mike is clearly visible in the bottom third of the shot, in front of his black leather trousers.

130ep 2 – The crowd on the left, down on Floor Zero, don't exactly look terrified, do they? That one in the middle is laughing!

140ep 2 – Captain Jack's force field only protects the top 5 floors of Satellite 5, so why don't the Daleks just blow up the remaining 496 floors?!

150ep 2 – Mickey said that he heard the TARDIS from a least a street away — did nobody else hear it? The streets are conveniently deserted — surely you'd expect to see at least a couple of curious bystanders, especially when Mickey starts making even more of a racket burning rubber in his Mini?

160ep 2 – Speaking of which, you clearly see Mickey shredding his Mini's front tyres on the road, so where are all the skid-marks? The road is plainly visible in a couple of shots and there's no burnt rubber anywhere.

170ep 2 – So Mickey's sitting in his Mini giving it full throttle when the chain breaks. The car then does a little roll backwards and halts, as if left in gear when the engine is switched off. Surely when the chain breaks, the Mini should shoot off and crash into the opposite wall?

180ep 2 – The Daleks make sound in space. Except when they break the window.

190ep 2 – How come the Daleks hovering in space could use a puny little laser to smash the window of the room Lynda was in, when the Doctor said that it was built to be "resistant to meteors?"

200ep 2 – Speaking of meteors, while it makes sense for the window to be meteor-proof, why would the interior door need to be??

210ep 2 – Never mind the fact that it should be referred to as meteoroid-proof — they're only called "meteors" once they enter the atmosphere of a planet.

220ep 2 – The chain that Mickey used to open the TARDIS console is lying on the console room floor one minute, and is suddenly on the ground outside the TARDIS in the next shot when the doors close.
[Obviously the 'TARDIS maid' who also tidied up the Dalek remains moved this too]

230ep 2 – The Doctor said something to the effect of "If I build a Delta Wave machine then I have the chance to wipe the Daleks out right here, right now, once and for all". Are we to believe that every Dalek ship in existence just happens to be parked next to Earth at that moment? What about the Dalek ships that are off conquering other galaxies / on holiday that week / popped out to Alpha Centauri for some shopping, etc. etc.?

240ep 2 – When the Doctor slips his hands off the Delta Wave lever, he does it twice. Once in close-up and again on the mid-shot — you can even hear it!

250ep 2 – For someone who's blind and has been hooked up to those cables since she was 5, the Controller is remarkably steady on her feet, isn't she?
[Maybe she was allowed out for loo breaks?]

260ep 2 – If the two different women can both be transmatted off floor 500, why can't they just grab everyone else too there at the end? Why isn't the Doctor worried about getting grabbed? Is the transmat "offline" without the controller in place?

270ep 2 – Neither the Doctor nor Rose know Jack has been exterminated — why don't they wonder where he is or attempt to find him before they leave?

280ep 2 – When TARDIS/Rose arrives back on the Game Station, the Doctor throws his hands up to protect his face, and he bends to his left, towards the nearest console. When the camera pans back, the Doctor is bending to his right, towards the opposite bank of consoles.

290ep 2 – Although she appeared as the Floor Manager in both Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways, actress Jenna Russell's name was accidentally left out of the closing credits for The Parting of the Ways (the broadcast version, at least).

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