20 Worst Moments In Modern Doctor Who

When we first meet Ruby Sunday in The Church on Ruby Road, we're told that she was named after the road on which she was abandoned as a baby.

And at the end of Empire of Death, it's revealed that Ruby's mother chose the name by pointing at a street sign that magically appears before our very eyes at the end of the episode.

Literally. It literally just appears out of nothing.

Confusingly, Ruby's mother doesn't point at anything in The Church on Ruby Road, she just walks off into the night. The pointing only starts in Space Babies, where it's framed as a portent of something sinister. Which it isn't.

Factor in that both the sign and the pole it's attached to don't even exist in The Church on Ruby Road, and it's a plot development of head-scratchingly baffling proportions.

It gets even worse with Russell T Davies’ recent reveal that Louise “wished the lamppost into existence”, which reeks of a guy just making nonsense up after the fact and claiming it was the plan all along.

All we can say is it's a good job she didn't leave Ruby on Butthole Lane. Which, before you ask, is a real street in England, look there it is on Google Maps!