10 Terrible CGI Moments In Modern Doctor Who

5. Jennifer's Flesh Forms (The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People)

Doctor Who The Lazarus Experiment
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Series 6's The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People introduces the concept of The Flesh, a thick white substance that's used to create disposable doppelgangers ("gangers" for short) of mining workers.

When they aren't looking like ordinary humans, the Flesh gangers have slimy, pale, white skin, an awesome effect that's used a lot throughout the episodes. However, the gangers can also manipulate their Flesh bodies to contort themselves into a variety of different forms, and it's here where the CGI in this story takes a massive beating.

There are two main instances we can point to, both featuring Jennifer: the bathroom scene in The Rebel Flesh, and the corridor chase at the end of The Almost People.

The bathroom scene sees Flesh Jennifer stick her head out of a wooden door, having elongated her neck so that it resembles the thick body of a snake. The effect itself looks laughable in motion, with the choppy movements of that huge digital neck failing to merge with the very real, very bemused face of actress Sarah Smart.

But at least it's only two shots, whereas The Almost People's corridor chase is an entire sequence of CGI suckage. Flesh Jennifer has now transformed herself into a lumbering four-legged monster, and it's just as hilariously bad as the bathroom scene.

Doctor Who The Almost People Jennifer Flesh monster
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It's hard to be scared of a monster when it looks like a hairless cat wearing a wig.

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