Bloopers, snafus and plot holes

[Leah Betts]

I'll start off with one i just noticed:

The Robots of Death - There's a bit of a plot hole: Taren Capel programmes the robots to recognise his voice, but not to recognise his face?

That would have scuppered the Doctor's plan.

[Ian Lethbridge-Stewart]

Maybe it was so the robots couldn't accidentally give him away as being Dask?

[duncan]

When the fourth Doctor falls at the end of Logopolis, he is wearing brown boots. In episode one of Castrovalva, the fifth Doctor takes off items of the fourth Doctor's clothing to mark his route in the Tardis including brown shoes.

[Jason Thompson]

Whole books have been written on this subject, but one of my personal favourites is the fact that the Cybermen are defeated because they forgot to put an interior door handle on their Tomb and left their revitalising machine on the wrong side of the door...

[Stuart Wallis]

Mind you, Sutekh's plans only got as far as they did because practically everything he needed to destroy or break into the Pyramid of Mars was buried with him...

[Jason Thompson]

Then there's The Curse of Fenric. A story in which a group of Russian soldiers think they can steal the Ultima machine, a computer that takes up an entire side of a room, with a dozen men and a couple of rubber dinghies. Not only that but the British think that they can hide a flask of deadly toxin inside it and that the Russians will at no point try to open the machine (as it seems you have to in order to make it work) or dismantle it for transport and spot this thing before they get it all the way back to the Kremlin...

[Jon Masters]

Mind you, Sutekh's plans only got as far as they did because practically everything he needed to destroy or break into the Pyramid of Mars was buried with him...

I've never had a problem with this - I assumed the human followers of Sutekh had arranged for all the "god's grave goods" to be buried nearby (after all, we don't see Scarman recover these objects from the tomb that he finds Sutekh in - maybe once he was possessed he went and dug them up from somewhere else ? )

[Jason Thompson]

I've never had a problem with this - I assumed the human followers of Sutekh had arranged for all the "god's grave goods" to be buried nearby (after all, we don't see Scarman recover these objects from the tomb that he finds Sutekh in - maybe once he was possessed he went and dug them up from somewhere else ? )

But why was any of it left behind on Earth in the first place? Once Horus stuck Sutekh down there, does leaving a whole bunch of stuff that Sutekh could use to build a rocket along with a bunch of servitor robots somewhere nearby for a mind-controlled person who happened to stumble into his tomb to find and use to engineer his escape really seem like a better idea than taking everything Osiran off Earth altogether?

Of course the bit that really bugs me is when they totally mess up the time it takes for radio signals to get from Mars to Earth right at the end. Even at its closest approach Mars is more than two light-minutes from Earth.

[Rob McCow]

How does the Doctor change his clothes so quickly at the start of Robot?

[Stuart Wallis]

I wonder - maybe time passes differently inside the TARDIS, which explains why it so often is that it takes off before the Doctor's had time to set the controls...

[Rob McCow]

A very good answer Mr Wallis!

[SiHart]

"It's because inside and outside are not in the smae dimension."

[Stuart Wallis]

Neither are the minds of most politicians and the rest of us, but I haven't noticed the Harold Macmillan Show celebrating its golden anniversary lately...

[Rob McCow]

There was one real howler that nobody talks about. This disgraceful mess-up occurred in the mid-seventies. One minute the Doctor is being played by this tall geezer with white hair, right. Then later on, he's still played by a tall geezer - but this geezer, get it, has brown, curly hair! How did that happen? Do they think we wouldn't have noticed?

If ever there was an argument for the BBC losing it's licence fee, then this was definitely it.

[Stuart Wallis]

This is the first any of us have heard of this! It's an absolute disgrace - political something-or-other gone mad!

[Ian Lethbridge-Stewart]

I'm not sure that Stuart and Steve are taking this thread seriously!!!

[Simon R]

I thought this was a Snafus:

[Stuart Wallis]

I'm not sure that Stuart and Steve are taking this thread seriously!!!

Be very afraid when we do!

[Leah Betts]

When they discovered pixie sized Master and have a nice little chat with him, why do none of them realise that they should grab him and pick him up before he can revive Kamelion to save him?

[Dino]

Special effects limitations? I'd love to see an episode where the Doctor arrives and stops something happening in the first minute so the rest of the episode is full of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" type shenanigans.

[Philipnet]

I'm not sure that Stuart and Steve are taking this thread seriously!!!

You have to be careful, otherwise the lunatics might take over the asylum :-)

[Stuart Wallis]

Might...?