Doctor Who: 10 Biggest Plot Holes Of The Revived Series So Far
3. Where Are The Reapers At?
In Fathers Day, when the Doctor and Rose travelled back in time for Rose to see her father before he dies, Rose saved him from death and ended up creating a time paradox instead. It all escalated very quickly after that. Moments after the save, monstrous and unstoppable creatures known as the Reapers appear and the Doctor explains that they are beings that appear every time a paradox happens. They forcefully fix it by eating anyone that's near the paradox (despite the fact that killing random people to fix time seems wholly unrelated and logically it should be a paradoxical nightmare in itself, but whatever).
In a show about time travel, time paradoxex might be unavoidable. There was probably one in every season in Davies' run and in Moffat's it's now practically expected. Paradoxes come and go yet the Reapers have yet to appear again. It's explained that that Time Lords were the reason they were contained before, so classic era episodes can be excused. But what about the rest of the revived series?
Where were they when the Doctor decided to be the Time Lord Victorious? Or how about when River Song decided she didn't want to kill the Doctor? How about when Amy and Rory jumped off a building in the night where it was impossible to die for Rory (and usually it comes easy for him)? Oh, and when the Doctor visited his own bloody gravestone? The Great Intelligence putting caution to a tornado didn't help matters, either. Sadly, the Reapers are big plot holes that won't go away anytime soon. Ironically, it's their job to fix plot holes.