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00:00If there's one thing we love about Doctor Who, and let's be real, there's a lot of things we
00:03love about Doctor Who, is that we love the zany wackiness of it all, even if sometimes we're so
00:08confused. And that's something that we're going to look at today. Those moments that left us
00:13thoroughly scratching our heads, they might have not taken us out of the episode or made us enjoy
00:18it any less, but certainly once the dust settles and we sit back we go, wait a minute, what? I'm
00:22Sean Ferrick for Who Culture and here are 10 Doctor Who moments that make no sense. Number 10,
00:28Graham randomly shows up in a volcano. Despite an extended runtime, the power of the Doctor was
00:33bursting at the seams. It had a lot to cram in, including a cameo from everyone's favourite game
00:37show hosting companion. Bradley Walsh returned to the fray as Graham, leading a support group for
00:42ex-companions at the episode's end. Before this, he saved the day by helping Ace defeat the Daleks,
00:46who were trying to set off numerous volcanoes all at once. I told you it was a busy episode. But hang
00:50on just a jiffy, how the hell did Graham get there? How does he just show up inside a volcano? Last we
00:55checked, there are no public footpaths into the centre of boiling hot pits of doom, even if one
01:00simply can walk into Mordor. Sorry. And Graham hardly has the resources or the athleticism of a
01:06James Bond super spy. And how did he even know which volcano to visit? It won't shock you to learn
01:10that there were quite a few of them dotted around the earth. It's one of those things that you're
01:13just meant to accept, but it still keeps me awake at night thinking about it. Number 9, destroying the
01:18Cybermen with love. Before he inexplicably became one of the most hated men on earth,
01:23James Corden made two appearances in Doctor Who as the lovable lad Craig Owens. In The Lodger,
01:28the 11th Doctor helps Craig come to terms with his love for his best friend Sophie. When he pays him
01:32a second visit in closing time, Craig and Sophie have a baby called Alfie, or Stormageddon Dark Lord
01:36of All to his mates. The Doctor, Craig and Stormzy discover that a group of Cybermen are hiding in a
01:41nearby shopping centre, because even robots can't resist a bargain. They end up capturing Craig and begin
01:46converting him when he hears Alfie's cries. They wouldn't, would they? Oh yes, they would. Craig uses
01:51the power of love to overcome the conversion, saving himself and eventually leading to the
01:56Cybermen's destruction. Really, the power of love? Okay, it might be the most clichéd hackneyed ending
02:00imaginable, but I gotta do next week. The Doctor fakes his own death. We probably should have seen this
02:05coming, considering that love saves the day was also the solution in The Lodger, but doing this to the
02:10Cybermen was a little bit criminal. Number 8, they throw rocks now. Blink is one of those episodes that will
02:15always have a place in the hearts of Whovians, which makes it all the more difficult to accept
02:19that there's really weird detail right at the start of it. Sally Sparrow first gets a sense that her
02:24life is about to make a strange turn when she reads a message scrawled on the wall of Wester Drumlin's
02:28Duck Now. Moments later, a rock flies in through the window, narrowly avoiding her head. According to
02:33writer Stephen Moffat, a nearby weeping angel threw the rock so that it could make Sally an easier
02:37target, which was perhaps the first clue that he was a bit confused by his own monster. We've never seen
02:42another angel attempt anything like this, so what made this one such a wimp? Angels move at lightning
02:47speeds, even the weaker ones in Blink, as we see at the end of the episode, so why do they need to
02:52incapacitate their victims? Surely that's the whole point of their ability. Sorry Stevie boy, but you're
02:56not off the hook with this one. Number 7, Legend of the Sea Devils, just generally. Ah, Legend of the
03:02Sea Devils. What a beautiful, beautiful mess. Jodie Whittaker's second to last outing as The Doctor is not
03:08only the least watched New Who episode ever, but it was also roundly smashed by fans and critics.
03:14The production of the episode was extremely rushed, something even showrunner Chris Chibnall has
03:18admitted to, and oh boy you can tell. At one point the TARDIS, with the Doctor and Yaz on board,
03:24gets eaten by a giant sea monster. A few minutes pass and we spend some time with Pirate Dan and when we
03:29cut back to the Doctor and Yaz they're somehow inside the Sea Devils base. What? It's not clear where they
03:34are or how they got there. Is the Sea Devil base inside the monster or has it transported them
03:40somewhere else? And where's the monster now? There are so many small disconnects like this one
03:44throughout the episode and it makes the whole thing rather confusing and a bit frustrating really to
03:49watch. Number 6, Captain Jack goes hand hunting. In David Tennant's first proper outing as the 10th
03:54Doctor, he engages in a sword fight with the Sycorax leader which cost him one of his hands. Thankfully he's
03:59able to grow a new fighting hand in its place which is rather good at throwing satsumas. The severed limb would
04:04serve as a critical plot point later down the line as 10 is able to use it to save off regeneration
04:09leading to the creation of the Metacrisis Doctor. Before that however he's reunited with his lost
04:14appendage thanks to Captain Jack Harkness who gives it to him in the season 3 finale. Question is,
04:19how the hell did Jack get it? Sure Jack works for Torchwood and can use some
04:23whizzy-wuzzy super-duper doctor detector but he still would have needed to track it down very quickly
04:27after it was lost in order to preserve it so well. The bigger sticking point is the fact that the hand
04:31fell over London directly into the EastEnders title sequence by the looks of it while Jack is based
04:36in Cardiff a good 150 miles away. Number 5, The Doctor's Cue Cards. Under the lake is the first part
04:43of the two-parter from season 9 in which the 12th Doctor and Clara have to deal with a bunch of
04:47murderous ghosts aboard an underwater mining facility. It's all very interesting and spooky and science
04:52fiction-y but none of that is why it's on our list. The reason is something far more simple. When the
04:56Doctor confronts the crew of the facility early in the story and realizes he's been a tad insensitive,
05:01expressing amazement that their dead friend coming back as a ghost, Clara reminds him of the cards in
05:05his pocket. A selection of stock phrases to help him deal with various situations. This gets a cheap
05:10laugh when the Doctor reads out the painfully generic statement written on one card but everything
05:14else about this moment is really rather flawed. The Doctor might be an alien but he's not an idiot.
05:18He's dealt with plenty of complicated emotional matters without needing a script so what makes this
05:22one so different? It's also difficult to believe that the Doctor and Clara sat down one night for some
05:26arts and crafts to put these cards together. You'll note I said difficult to believe, not impossible to
05:31believe. Frankly I think the Doctor would have used a lot of stickers. Clearly the writers liked the gag
05:36but didn't really put an awful lot of thought into whether or not it made sense. Number four, slowest walk
05:41ever. Shooty Gatwa kicked off his tenure in the 2023 Christmas special The Church on Ruby Road and good
05:47grief was it something else in a good way. He did a whole musical number for crying out loud. The special also
05:52introduced new companion Ruby Sunday and set up her backstory as a foundling abandoned on Christmas
05:57Eve. Fifteen ends up traveling back to that day in order to save baby Ruby from becoming goblin food
06:02which is where this odd moment takes place. When the Doctor arrives Ruby's mother is already walking
06:06away from the church. He then hot fuzzes the goblin king, rescues Ruby, touches back down on the ground
06:11and runs back to the TARDIS all of which takes several minutes and the mother is still in the exact same
06:16place she was when he first arrived. Come on now there's taking your time and then there's really taking your time.
06:22Is she actually three kids in a trench coat? Was she really wearing heavy shoes?
06:26Maybe we'll find out that there were some timey-wimey shenanigans going on here like the jacketless
06:30matsmith in Flesh and Stone or maybe it was done for dramatic effect so the Doctor could stare at her
06:35walking away and walking and walking and walking. Either way it takes you out of the moment and makes little sense to boot.
06:42Number three, why do the Daleks have a spin button? At the end of the season four finale just when everything looks bleak for the
06:48Tenth Doctor and his army of friends, human weapons, Donna Noble ascends. The power of the Doctor Donna
06:53kicks in giving her genius intellect and allowing her to set in motion the destruction of the Dalek fleet.
06:58She disables their weapons, disarms the reality bomb, sorry, THE REALITY BOMB, and makes them do donuts.
07:04Okay then, Donna twists a little button on the control desk and makes all of the Daleks spin around,
07:09round baby, right round, spin, ahem. Then she makes them go the other way because you would, wouldn't you?
07:15This is funny and all and cuts through the bleakness of the previous moment but it raises a whole bunch
07:19of questions, chief among them why the Daleks would have a spin function in the first place,
07:23not to mention a host of other switches and levers that make them completely useless.
07:26Maybe Russell D. Davis wanted to see spinning Daleks and you know what? That's fair.
07:31Number two, quite possibly the worst soldiers in existence. Season nine's The Zygon Invasion,
07:37The Zygon Inversion is remembered for Peter Capaldi's incredible speech at the end of the second
07:41episode and rightly so. However, the rest of the story isn't quite so strong. It's good,
07:46don't get us wrong, it's solid, it's just that you'd probably be better off booting up the speech
07:50on YouTube rather than sitting through the whole 90 minutes. One highly questionable moment occurs
07:54when a group of soldiers approach a Zygon-infested church. Knowing full well that the Zygons are
07:59capable of shape-shifting, the soldiers are reminded just before the mission begins that you know what
08:03they're capable of, do not fall victim to it. In other words, when the Zygons inevitably take the form of
08:08someone you love in order to trick you, ignore it. Guess what happens next? Almost immediately the
08:13lead soldier is duped when a Zygon emerges from the church posing as his mother and despite every
08:18single piece of evidence pointing to the fact that they're being lured to their deaths, the entire
08:22group of soldiers lower their weapons, enter the church and are murdered. Well gee if only someone had
08:28warned them. It's utterly ridiculous that a trained group of soldiers would fall for such a simple
08:32ruse. Without a doubt one of the most contrived moments in recent Doctor Who history.
08:37Number one, bye bye Boatswain. Remember him from season six as the Curse of the Black Spot? You
08:43probably don't and there's a very good reason for it. The Eleventh Doctor and the Ponds end up on a
08:46pirate ship where the crew are being hunted by a siren which comes for anyone who sustains even the
08:52slightest of injuries. Heading up the Buccaneers is Captain Henry Avery played by Hugh Bonneville. His
08:57fellow sea dogs include a character known simply as the Boatswain portrayed by Lee Ross. This guy is just
09:01sort of there to begin with until he gets wounded about halfway through and then he just vanishes to thin air. If you
09:06think we're exaggerating we're not. The Boatswain literally disappears from the story and only emerges
09:10at the very end reunited with his crew. It's never explained what happened to him or where he went.
09:14Apparently there was this whole subplot filmed about this character that was cut during editing
09:18creating a significant continuity error in the final episode. Shall we start taking bets on big finish
09:22plugging the gap with a series of audio adventures? The Boatswain adventures. It fly off the shelves.
09:28That's everything for our list today folks. Thank you so much for watching along. Thanks so much to Jacob
09:32Simmons who wrote the original article upon which this video is based. You can check that out over
09:36on whatculture.com. I have been Sean Farrick. You can follow us at Whoculture on the various
09:40socials and you can get me at Sean Farrick as well. You're awesome, you're wonderful,
09:44keep things wibbly wobbly and remember you deserve love so treat yourself well.
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