Doctor Who: 10 Behind The Scenes Decisions We Can't Forgive

6. Revealing That The Moon Is An Egg

Doctor Who Kill the Moon
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Doctor Who obviously requires some suspension of disbelief if you're going to enjoy it. It deals with a lot of ridiculous concepts, but for the most part, they're easy to accept, because we all know this is a sci-fi show and nothing should be taken too seriously.

But Doctor Who really pushed how far some fans would keep that disbelief suspended in the Series 8 episode Kill The Moon, with the frankly stupid revelation that planet Earth's moon... is actually a giant egg.

It goes without saying that the real-life science behind this is preposterous, but even within the weird and wacky Doctor Who universe, it was a massive stretch.

Even if you can buy the fact that it took until the year 2049 (when the story is set) for humanity to discover that that giant orb in the sky - y'know, the one they've been studying for decades - could be used to make an omelette, the way the newborn alien just immediately lays another egg that is the same size as itself was a beat too far.

It would've been quite easy for writer Peter Harness to set this story on an alien world with an alien moon - where basic logic doesn't necessarily need to apply - but sadly, he didn't. What's next? The oceans are actually Satan's toilet water? Blue sky is a giant smurf buttcheek? Clouds are alien dandruff? Anything is possible!

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for over ten years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. In 2022, he took charge of WhoCulture and has grown it into the biggest Doctor Who channel on YouTube, and one of the biggest Doctor Who communities on the web full-stop. He has been writing and video editing since his early teens, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers, off the back of a burning obsession with the Matt Smith era of the show. Like many his age, he first got into Doctor Who with the 2005 revival, but has since gone back and fallen in love with the classic years too. If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order, or to give you a random factoid about the making of Gridlock, Danny is the person to ask!