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Updated November 7, 2017 6.0K votes 924 voters 44.4K views
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Vote up the most glaring and impossible to ignore plot holes from any season of Doctor Who.
Doctor Who is a long, proud franchise with millions of fans.The show's adventures are some of the quirkiest and most exciting on television, staying fresh as other shows rise and fall. Its strengths lie in its imagination and characters, but the plotting can be all over the place. Plot holes in Doctor Who are often plentiful, but if the emotions of the story work then people tend to forgive them. But there are times when things make so little sense you just can't get behind the story.
The worst plot holes in Doctor Who stick out when the emotion of the story has failed, or rather the plot holes themselves fail the emotion of the story. There have been some whoppers in the show's time, with two of the most egregious examples being "Journey's End" from the fourth series and "The Angels Take Manhattan" from the seventh series.
Don't worry. There are plenty of other offenders on the list. Vote up the biggest Doctor Who plot holes.
While most agree that the seventh series episode "The Angels Take Manhattan" has a ton of problems, this one seems like the most glaring. The episode says that the Statue of Liberty is actually a massive Weeping Angel, which invites a whole bunch of questions. If it really is moving around attacking people, why didn't anyone notice it moving around? Not to mention NYC is full of millions of people, so at least one person MUST be looking at it every second of every day, which means it wouldn't be able to move at all.
In the first series episode "Father's Day," Rose goes into the past and saves her father from death and ends up creating a paradox. Creatures called Reapers appear and start to attack everyone. We learn that they only appear when there's a paradox, but given how many paradoxes the Doctor runs into, why haven't we seen these guys more?
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All of a Sudden, Gallifrey Isn't Frozen in Time Anymore
At the end of the ninth series episode "Hell Bent," the Twelfth Doctor finally returns home to Gallifrey. Somehow, some way, it's escaped the pocket universe the Doctor(s) put it in during the events of "Day of the Doctor." It's never explained, but for more than two seasons, trying to free Gallifrey was a big deal. Then, suddenly, it isn't. What gives?
So, in "The Angels Take Manhattan," the Weeping Angels grab Amy and Rory and maroon them in 1930s Manhattan. For timey-wimey reasons, the TARDIS can't ever go back there. So, instead of figuring out a way to save them... the Doctor leaves them stranded in the past for the rest of their lives. Can't the Doctor just drop the TARDIS into New Jersey, take a cab over, and save Amy and Rory? Or how about using River's Vortex Manipulator?
All throughout the lives of the Ninth and Tenth Doctors, they make a big deal out of "fixed points in time." No matter what you do, you can't change them. Apparently, the destruction of Gallifrey was a fixed point in time, but the show changes that without any paradoxes popping up. With the planet stashed away rather than merely destroyed, how is time not unraveling?
Sure, the show explains it away by saying nobody remembers until later, but that seems like an unlikely explanation as to why the fabric universe isn't imploding.
The seventh Doctor did some pretty questionable things. One of them was tricking the Daleks into destroying their own home planet, Skaro, in the 1988 serial Remembrance of the Daleks. So... if that's the case, why is it still around almost 25 years later in "Asylum of the Daleks"?
