This is just a bit of fun. I don't really lie awake fault-finding TV shows in this way, but there were some amusing oversights and ridiculous moments audiences had to swallow in Doctor Who's season 4 finale. Here are a few I noticed. Do you have any more?
1. If the parallel world Rose was living in had developed technology to jump to other dimensions, did they forget the warning of catastrophe The Doctor made clear inter-dimensional travel would cause in "Doomsday"?
2. On a related note, why did Rose vanish like a ghost in "Partners In Crime" if the method of dimensional travel was revealed to be a "Doomsday"-style jump with a blue flash in "Stolen Earth"?
3. Also, what were those subliminal flashes of Rose shouting for The Doctor on various screens throughout the season about? It inferred she was having difficulty getting through to The Doctor's universe, but "Turn Left" and "The Stolen Earth" showed he was just a simple dimensional jump away.
4. If Dalek Caan travelled back into the Time War and altered history to save Davros (itself a bit of a stretch), how and why did he orchestrate an elaborate timeline for Donna to meet The Doctor, and ultimately defeat Davros? If he'd come to the conclusion his fellow Daleks are in the wrong, why bring back his creator to revive the entire race? Just commit suicide, dummy: job done.
5. Martha's teleportation jacket can accurately send her from New York to her mother's London home, but not from London to inside that Nuremburg castle?
6. There seemed to be some confusion around Davros' plan: he intended to destroy reality itself, yet the Daleks suggested his "reality bomb" would make them the only race in existence (the perfect extermination of lesser beings). But I'm not sure how they think this reality bomb would spare Daleks, or give them anywhere to exist. I can accept Davros being crazy enough to kill himself and everything in existence, but would the Daleks really go along with that plan?
7. The Shadow Proclamation assistant telling Donna "you are something new". What was that about? Is she something new?
8. The Doctor tells Sylvia and Gramps that Donna can never know about her adventures with him... er, but it's okay for her to walk into a room where he's present? Or for him to say goodbye to her? If seeing The Doctor didn't stir a memory in Donna, I hardly think being told her she was the companion of a time-traveller who saved the universe would make much impact!
9. The fortuitous inter-dimensional jumps continued, with Mickey and Jackie somehow predicting Sarah-Jane would need assistance destroying two Daleks in the middle of a road. Likewise Captain Jack knew to teleport to a particular road, just in time to blast the Dalek who shot The Doctor. How exactly?
10. The Doctor insists Rose will be happy with his half-human clone, but fails to mention the Human-Doctor is imbued with Donna's brashness. I give their relationship a month before Rose is climbing the walls!
1. If the parallel world Rose was living in had developed technology to jump to other dimensions, did they forget the warning of catastrophe The Doctor made clear inter-dimensional travel would cause in "Doomsday"?
2. On a related note, why did Rose vanish like a ghost in "Partners In Crime" if the method of dimensional travel was revealed to be a "Doomsday"-style jump with a blue flash in "Stolen Earth"?
3. Also, what were those subliminal flashes of Rose shouting for The Doctor on various screens throughout the season about? It inferred she was having difficulty getting through to The Doctor's universe, but "Turn Left" and "The Stolen Earth" showed he was just a simple dimensional jump away.
4. If Dalek Caan travelled back into the Time War and altered history to save Davros (itself a bit of a stretch), how and why did he orchestrate an elaborate timeline for Donna to meet The Doctor, and ultimately defeat Davros? If he'd come to the conclusion his fellow Daleks are in the wrong, why bring back his creator to revive the entire race? Just commit suicide, dummy: job done.
5. Martha's teleportation jacket can accurately send her from New York to her mother's London home, but not from London to inside that Nuremburg castle?
6. There seemed to be some confusion around Davros' plan: he intended to destroy reality itself, yet the Daleks suggested his "reality bomb" would make them the only race in existence (the perfect extermination of lesser beings). But I'm not sure how they think this reality bomb would spare Daleks, or give them anywhere to exist. I can accept Davros being crazy enough to kill himself and everything in existence, but would the Daleks really go along with that plan?
7. The Shadow Proclamation assistant telling Donna "you are something new". What was that about? Is she something new?
8. The Doctor tells Sylvia and Gramps that Donna can never know about her adventures with him... er, but it's okay for her to walk into a room where he's present? Or for him to say goodbye to her? If seeing The Doctor didn't stir a memory in Donna, I hardly think being told her she was the companion of a time-traveller who saved the universe would make much impact!
9. The fortuitous inter-dimensional jumps continued, with Mickey and Jackie somehow predicting Sarah-Jane would need assistance destroying two Daleks in the middle of a road. Likewise Captain Jack knew to teleport to a particular road, just in time to blast the Dalek who shot The Doctor. How exactly?
10. The Doctor insists Rose will be happy with his half-human clone, but fails to mention the Human-Doctor is imbued with Donna's brashness. I give their relationship a month before Rose is climbing the walls!
