10 Dumbest Things That Have Ever Happened In Doctor Who
What were they thinking!?
Hes travelled the universe for a thousand years - getting into scrapes, thwarting alien invasions, meeting strange characters, pushing the limits of normality and generally devising (usually) brilliant plans, often at the last minute. But despite the Doctor having a brain the size of a planet, the show that bears his illustrious name isnt always watertight when it comes to coherence. Whether foiling a poorly-thought-out plan for galactic domination, encountering a world with a nonsensical punishment procedure or defeating a villain in a bizarre and unconvincing way, humanitys Time Lord of choice has found himself battling the minds of scriptwriters as much as the Daleks and Cybermen themselves. As such, presented for your entertainment/bafflement are 10 cold, hard cases of sheer "Whaaa?" which illustrate how the classic and Nu versions of the series fell far short of cosmic common sense. They will take you across time and space, showing where the monsters, the production team and even the Doctor himself have cooked up a mighty fudge in pursuit of interplanetary adventure. As you'll see in this article, narrative craters can open up in the most beloved of stories as well as the turkeys fandom rightly reviles. The calamity commences with a sequence that aired only last year, which saw Peter Capaldis Twelfth incarnation display uncharacteristic idiocy when taking on an unexpected opponent...