10 Changes Doctor Who Hoped You Wouldn't Notice

3. The Twelfth Doctor's Title Sequence Sync

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While this is definitely an accidental change rather than a deliberate one, it's something that happened repeatedly throughout the Peter Capaldi years, and you can bet your house that the BBC hoped it would go unnoticed by fans!

Here's the problem. The Twelfth Doctor's title sequence is terrific, arguably the most wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey intro we've ever seen in the show (it was also designed by a fan, but that's a story for another day).

However, on countless occasions throughout Capaldi's run, the visuals - for some reason - were out of sync with the audio, resulting in several different variations of the sequence, each of them synced slightly differently to the next.

The one for Face The Raven (Series 9, Episode 10) is particularly egregious.

Again, this is clearly something that was done accidentally. But regardless of the intent (or lack thereof), this small, ultimately insignificant detail ended up annoying quite a lot of Whovians, once again proving that Doctor Who fans are some of the most passionate in pop-culture - for better or worse.

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for almost nine years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. He has been writing and video editing for 10+ years, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers and uploading them to YouTube (they're admittedly a bit rusty by today's standards). If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order or to tell you about the making of 1988's Remembrance of the Daleks, Danny is the person to ask.