10 Terrible CGI Moments In Modern Doctor Who

1. Mickey Gets Sucked Into A Bin (Rose)

Doctor Who The Lazarus Experiment
BBC

The first ever episode of Doctor Who's 2005 revival had an important task to accomplish: get the British public onboard, and secure the future of the show.

If people hadn't liked Rose, if people hadn't connected with the title character, if people hadn't started to love Eccleston's Doctor... well, then we wouldn't be on Series 12.

Needless to say, this episode was successful in getting audiences hooked on this new era of Doctor Who, but one thing that Rose did not get right was its special effects.

In fact, it's all downhill after the terrific title sequence, with a cheap-looking explosion at the department store providing an early visual stumble. But without question, the worst offender of the episode - and the worst bit of CGI in modern Doctor Who - is the scene where Mickey gets sucked into a wheelie bin.

Doctor Who Rose Mickey Smith Wheelie Bin
BBC

Poor Noel Clarke, having to pretend that his hands are stuck to the gooey and utterly unconvincing rubber-like material that sticks out from the lid of the bin: he gives it his all, but it must've been as embarrassing to film as it is to watch.

Everything about the scene is wrong, from the sound effects to the way the bin moves to the obvious green screen, and honestly, we're surprised that showrunner Russell T Davies was brave enough to leave this bit in.

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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.