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Doctor Who (2005) - 59 corrections

starring Alex Kingston, David Tennant, Freema Agyeman, John Barrowman, Matt Smith, Billie Piper, Catherine Tate, Christopher Eccleston (add 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.]
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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.]
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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.]
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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 ]
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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. ]
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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.]
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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.]
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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.]
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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.]
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At the end of "World War Three" there is a side shot of The Doctor leaving the TARDIS in which you can see inside, but the control room isn't visible, just the side on the police box. In "The Runaway Bride" there is a shot from the same angle, but this time the control room is visible. [The Doctor mentions that the TARDIS has totally redesigned 'herself' after the crash at the start of the series. Thus the view through the door is going to be different.]
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In "Blink" the angels are unable to move at times when no one's watching them. The explanation being that the audience are. But in "Flesh and Stone" the angels are able to move on screen. [This is a stylistic choice by the programme makers. In "Blink", the Angels were not seen to move directly - while the choice was made in that episode to present the actions of the Angels as if the audience were observers, this is purely for dramatic purposes; the audience are obviously not, in fact, present. In the later episodes, this conceit was dispensed with, allowing the Angels to be seen to move directly when no character was able to observe them.]
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The Eleventh Doctor refers to the Silurians as "Homo Reptilia." The prefix "Homo" refers to apes and is incorrect, as the Silurians are reptiles. [Homo Reptilia would mean something like Reptile Human. The Silurians are a race of reptile-like humanoids.]
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In 'Father's Day' (Series One), Rose holds herself as a baby, and it causes a 'wound in time', yet in 'The Big Bang' (S5 Finale), Amy interacts with herself when she was young, and nothing appears to happen. [The fact that all of reality is collapsing around them may have something to do with it - at the time of the interaction the universe is significantly smaller than it normally is, plus the young Amy has no equivalent conflicting future, as she'll be destroyed along with everything else shortly afterwards.]
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In Series 6, Episode 11, "The God Complex," the Weeping Angels return for a cameo, but the Doctor says they are not real. In "The Time Of Angels" it reveals that the image of an angel becomes an angel, so they should become real. [It would only be real if the Angel is real. Like if it was an illusion of an Angel, the properties of the Angel would not be realized. Not even a drawing would suffice, it would have to be an actual image of an Angel.]
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Bad Wolf (1) (series 1)

The Doctor claims the Daleks are hiding themselves from sonar. But sonar relies on sound waves, which can't travel through the vacuum of space.so The Doctor is talking nonsense. [In sci-fi, anything is possible.]
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Boom Town (series 1)

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.]
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The Doctor Dances (2) (series 1)

Written on the side of the German bomb Jack is sitting on are the words "Schlechter Wolf. which is a mistranslation of the English "Bad Wolf. It should have been "Böser Wolf. Böse = bad, as in evil. Schlecht = bad, as in rotten, as in 'the milk has gone bad'. You are unlikely to say that the milk has 'gone evil'. [Given that the name Bad Wolf is from the company that runs Satellite Five in the future & that is where Rose got the name from I don't think that she's going for the correct terminology when she scatters the words through time, just that she makes the connection between all the instances of seeing Bad Wolf & getting back to Satellite Five.]
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The Empty Child (1) (series 1)

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.]
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The 'Tula' stems from an Indian restaurant where the writer ate. [It is spelt 'Chula' not 'Tula'. Either read the script or the quotes/ subtitles from other websites.]
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