8 Deleted Scenes That Explain Confusing Doctor Who Moments
2. Mickey And The Bin (Rose)
The Mystery
One of modern Who's cheesiest CGI moments is the scene in Rose - the very first episode of the revival - where Mickey Smith gets sucked inside a wheelie bin and turned into an Auton replicant. By today's standards, it's laughable, but then again, it does add to that unique Doctor Who charm when the visuals aren't quite up to scratch.
CGI aside, Mickey's fate here does lead to a bit of confusion later in the episode, when he shows up inside the Nestene lair alive and well. More specifically, it's not really clear how he got here, especially considering that the wheelie bin scene takes place in a completely different part of the city, miles and miles away from the lair.
So... how did Mickey get from the wheelie bin to the Nestene lair?
The Deleted Scene
Russell T Davies himself brought this whole issue up quite recently. During a worldwide watch-along of Rose earlier this year, the writer tweeted that even he was left wondering how Mickey got from the bin to the lair, before mentioning that a deleted scene - one that he removed at the scripting stage - holds the answer.
And that answer is... Auton bin men. Well, sort of. According to Davies, these characters were included in the first draft of the script, and "warp shunt technology" is the explanation for how Mickey moved from the bin to the lair so easily.
To be honest, we'd rather have had a scene where the wheelie bin rolls across London with Mickey trapped inside, yelling his head off. Make it happen BBC!