10 Huge Doctor Who Plot Holes Everyone Overlooks
Not even the sonic screwdriver could fix these.
For someone who likes to mess up the timeline of the universe, it's perhaps not shocking that the Doctor's own backstory is equally as twisted.
Over the course of 60 years, Gallifrey's finest has done so much and met so many people that it's hard to keep track of it all.
Especially if you're the one writing the stories.
Ever since the show came back in 2005, there have been dozens and dozens of adventures to keep track of. Throw in the hundreds of classic Who episodes, and it's easy to see how things can get so muddled.
It's got to the point where you don't even need to know much about Doctor Who to spot the glaring plot holes scattered across its history. While it's easy to write some of them off with technobabble, some of them are so blatant that not even the finest minds in the universe could provide a suitable answer.
Let's hope none of these entries were fixed points in time, because they're about to get seriously messed up.
10. Dalek Caan's Excellent Adventure
Former/current showrunner Russell T Davies was the king of television back in 2008. He had so much rope that nobody seemed to care when he literally pointed out a plot hole in his own episode.
Towards the end of The Stolen Earth, the Tenth Doctor is reunited with his bestest enemy Davros, who is hanging out in a basement with a rather frazzled Dalek Caan.
Here, it's revealed that the emergency temporal shift seen at the end of Evolution of the Daleks whisked Caan directly into the Time War, which greatly surprises the Tenth Doctor, who states "But that's impossible. The entire war is time locked."
The fact that RTD acknowledged this plot hole in the episode's dialogue is probably why everyone overlooks it, but yeah, hang on a minute: entering the Time War was supposed to be impossible, so how did Caan get there?
The only explanation we do get is that Caan "succeeded", which... well, that's not really an explanation is it.
Steven Moffat would later find his own way past the Time War time lock in The Day of the Doctor, but RTD clearly didn't feel it was a big deal back when The Stolen Earth aired.