Doctor Who: 10 Things That Make NO Sense In The Modern Series

We first meet Amy and Rory in the Series 5 opener The Eleventh Hour, where we get a really good look around Amy's house, their home village of Leadworth, and even bump into a couple of their friends, like Jeff (what a legend) and the elderly Mrs. Angelo.

It's one of the overall strengths of Series 5 that we truly get to know and understand Amy and Rory as individuals (and as a couple), but on the downside, this does mean that the Mels reveal in Series 6 makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

In the opening scenes of the mid-series premiere Let's Kill Hitler, we're introduced to a character called Mels, who is apparently Amy and Rory's bestest friend in the whole wide world, a relationship that dates all the way back to when they were kids.

Sounds fine on paper, but here's the problem: not only had we never seen Mels before this episode, but she'd never even been mentioned. All that time we spent in Leadworth, and all that time we spent with Amy and Rory, and their bezzy mate never came up once? Hell, Mels wasn't even at their wedding, an absence that is brushed aside with the convenient excuse "I don't do weddings".

Of course, the explanation here is that Steven Moffat hadn't thought of Mels when he was writing Series 5, but this doesn't excuse the fact that it makes zero sense for her to pop up out of nowhere.