Doctor: These human beings. Consider their potential. From the day they arrive on the planet and blinking step into the sun. There is more to see than can ever be seen. More to do than - no, hold on...Sorry, that's 'The Lion King'. But the point still stands. Leave them alone!
The Doctor and Rose locate the "metal" hatch that leads down into the "Plastic's Leader" blob. Watch carefully after the Doctor removes the "metal" hatch and moves it aside. The entire hatch "pops-up" a second later. This is because it is plastic and it was suctioned to the floor. See more...
Only eleven cybermen costumes were built but careful filming makes it look as if there are more. See more...
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Season 2: Episode 10 - Love and Monsters: Elton said that when he was young, he went downstairs and found the Doctor there. However, the Doctor has only looked like he does now for maybe a year or less because he keeps regenerating and changing his looks, so when Elton saw him he should have looked completely different. [The whole time travel thing's really passed you by, hasn't it. The Doctor can show up practically anywhere and any when he wants to.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
Rose is kept alive because the daleks think what she knows may be useful to them. However to get the information from the scientist they tell him to kneel and extract the info they need from his brain. Why didn't they just do the same thing with Rose? [As is spelled out in the episode, the Daleks keep Rose and Mickey alive because they both carry the temporal energy required to open the Genesis Ark. While they only need one of them to actually open the Ark, the Daleks are intelligent enough to keep them both around in case of problems.]
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2005 Christmas special, the Christmas invasion: A few times it is possible to see the Major's epaulettes. The symbol is a crown as in the British army. But seeing as Unit is a United Nations organisation (it stands for United Nations Intelligence Taskforce), an officer would have no reason to have a crown symbol on his epaulettes. [The United Nations has no military forces of its own, it seconds troops from member states. These troops wear UN insignia relevant to their mission (e.g. UNPROFOR in the former Yugoslavia) but their rank insignia is from whatever military organisation they belong to - in this case a British Army Major.]
Epsisode 3-10 Blink. Fundemental feature of the statute monsters is that they cannot move if anyone/anything is looking at them. At the end they are tricked into looking at each other (by the Tardis dematerialising) and so are trapped forever. But they are in a basement with a light on, when the light goes off they will escape. In fact they earlier switched the light off so they could move and attack the good guys. [This is a character mistake at best. The fact that this mistake was made in no way changes the events of the episode. It merely means that the threat wasn't neutralized while it was mistakenly believed to be so.]
In the Second last episode of series 3 when they are running over the bridge. You can see the Heddlu sign on the police station (Heddlu is welsh for police). You can also see a Cardiff bus at the bus stop underneath. [They are in Cardiff, Wales. The Doctor knew the Master could only travel between Cardiff, where the rift in time is located and Utopia thus he went to Cardiff to find him. However the Master had the TARDIS transported to the Valliant as seen later in the episode and also Martha's flat (apartment) is in London. The Heddlu sign and the Cardiff bus are just location mistakes ]
Epsisode 3-10 Blink. The weeping angels move across a whole street in the blink of an eye, yet later on they can't get across a couple of metres in two minutes. [This is because, if you were paying attention, the angels are subtle, and, they may have been being observed at some times. ]
Whenever you glimpse the inside of the TARDIS from outside, a frontal view reveals a picture of what's inside which has been placed at the back of the box. Sadly, it isn't on the sides. This means that, from the right angle, you can easily tell that it is just a box. [The scenery on the inside isn't meant to be seen from any other angle but the front. That's how it was supposed to be.]
In the episode 'Blink,' the stone angels are able to move when no-one's looking at them. But there are some shots (such as when Sally leaves Wester Drumlin's) where no-one (except the audience) is facing the angels. Why aren't they moving? Even just a little movement, like breathing. They're still just stone statues. [Because the audience IS looking at them, of course! The suspense is created as the viewer experiences the same disorientation as Sally.]
In 'Voyage of the Damned' it is stated that the Titanic ship would destroy Earth if it crashed. However in 'Turn Left' (series 4 episode 11), it only destroys London and renders southern England radioactive and uninhabitable. [So the original statement turned out to be wrong. These things happen; characters make mistakes.]
Corrected by Tailkinker
In the first two parts of the ending episodes of the fifth series, the disappearing of the bees is mentioned. Albert Einstein said that if all the bees on the globe disappeared then man would only have four years left to live. Coincidence? [Except, Albert Einstein never actually said that. In fact, no one ever did. You can't believe every urban legend you hear, you know. And besides, the mentions of the bees' disappearences occured in the fourth season, not the fifth.]
When the Doctor asks Jack about the extrapolator, Jack replies, "It's not compatible, but it should knock off about 12 hours". How can it knock off 12 hours if it's not compatible? [Meaning it will work, just not as well as it would if it were compatible.]
Corrected by wizard_of_gore
Capt. Jack Harkness introduces himself as "American Volunteer, 133 Squadron, Royal Air Force". It is an historical fact that there was such a squadron, made up of American volunteers.but it was not formed until August 1941. The events in "The Empty Child" and "The Doctor Dances" are supposed to have taken place during the "Blitz" on London, which lasted from October 1940 to May 1941. Capt. Jack could not be a member of an RAF squadron that didn't yet exist. [Capt. Jack is from the future, as is Rose and the Doctor. There are many possibilities, e.g., looking in history to find a random designation and found one from the wrong time, or it might even be his designation from the future.]
Near the end, when Rose's dad runs in front of the car at the church, a Renault Clio is seen down the street. Clios weren't available to buy until 1990 (three years after the episode was set) and the one seen is a Clio II, which weren't available until 1998. [Time was falling apart, as seen with the first telephone "call" and the unreleased rap song, so why couldn't the Clio fall into that time?]
Any security system worth its salt would stop accepting codes after too many incorrect ones have been entered. This is pretty much standard for security software, even today. No security system of the future would be written so badly as to just allow millions of combinations to be sent one after the other so quickly. The Dalek should really never have been able to get out as the door panel should have blocked after three or four invalid codes were entered. [Technically true, but Van Statten was so arrogant that he never thought that anyone could possibly hack the code anyway. Character mistake.]
Corrected by wizard_of_gore
Why does Henry Van Statten need to "bypass" the security codes to his own base? [The Dalek changed the codes when it smashed the computer.]
After the Slitheen realize that the Doctor's ruse with the alcohol is a ruse, the metal shielding around the windows and doors slams shut quite quickly. Later, while talking with the Slitheen again, the shielding closes much slower. Seems like their motors run at speeds determined by the dramatic tone of particular scenes. [When we see the doors closing slower, the scene is happening in slow motion which is an artistic decision not a mistake.]
Rose's mum phones the Alien hotline and tells them all about the Doctor. She says that he's called the Doctor and has a Blue Box, fair enough. But then she says he called it a TARDIS. Except that no one called it a TARDIS in front of her. The closest was Mickey calling it "that box thing" [What is seen on screen does not represent every second of real time, so therefore it is quite possible that the name was mentioned at some moment which was not seen on screen.]
When Rose is having a friendly chat with Gwyneth, just before the Doctor walks in the room, a crew member's shoulder and arm is visible in the bottom left of the screen. [That's the Doctor's shoulder and arm. The material of the clothing is the same as his jacket, and he's standing the same distance away from Rose and Gwyneth.]
The Doctor advises Rose to change her clothes as to be less conspicuous in the 1860's, yet he himself did not change his clothing. [He states he changed his jumper, however, it has been widely stated that he simply 'blends in.']
Charles Dickens says he is going off to catch a mail coach ("Quite literally 'Post Haste'" is the line). However, mail coaches ceased to be in regular use some 40 years earlier in the 1830s, killed off by the arrival of the railway network. [He could be using slang. Mail coach = Mail train.]
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