10 Doctor Who Mistakes You Can NEVER Unsee

3. Windy Hair Hologram (Doomsday)

David Tennant Doctor Who Doomsday
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The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler, stood on the beach at Bad Wolf Bay, bidding each other a tearful farewell: it's a moment that most fans hold in extremely high regard, but at the same time... it's also a moment with a really distracting mistake.

For the duration of this scene, the Doctor is actually inside the TARDIS, projecting a hologram of himself onto the beach so he can say goodbye to Rose. He tells her that he's "just an image", and that she can't physically touch him, which also means that his hologram shouldn't be affected by the surrounding environment - like, say, the weather conditions.

But despite all of this, David Tennant's hair can be seen blowing in the wind throughout their entire conversation. Since our primitive reality doesn't actually posses hologram technology, the actor would, of course, have had to shoot on that beach in person, leaving his spiky locks vulnerable to a slight breeze.

Tennant has even acknowledged this mistake himself, saying that he was constantly "worrying" about the fact that his hair was blowing in the wind, hinting that this was something the production crew actually tried to find a solution for.

Here's a solution: just say "because Doctor Who". That fixes a lot of logic holes.

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