Doctor Who: 10 Things That Make NO Sense In The Modern Series
2. The Doctor Dies From Falling, Except When He Doesn't
While The End Of Time is a bit of a hot mess overall, there's absolutely no faulting that scene where the Doctor sacrifices himself to save Wilf: it's totally heartbreaking and expertly acted by David Tennant and Bernard Cribbins.
However, if we're going to be nitpicky, then the Doctor really should have died a lot earlier than this.
When? Well, that ridiculous moment where he jumps out of a spaceship that's high up in the sky - so high, in fact, that it eventually turns into a tiny dot the further he falls - smashes through some glass, and crash-lands on a rather hard marble floor.
The reason why this doesn't make sense is that the Fourth Doctor actually died and regenerated because of a fall - a fall that was from a much shorter height than the Tenth Doctor's was, and it was onto soft grass, rather than solid marble. All the Tenth Doctor gets is a few cuts and scratches. Not even his hair gets messed up.
When the Thirteenth Doctor fell from the TARDIS in her first appearance, she still had regeneration energy coursing through her body, and when the Eleventh Doctor fell from space in The Doctor, The Widow And The Wardrobe, he had a special impact suit to soak up any damage. Meanwhile, the Tenth Doctor had no crutches whatsoever.
Well, besides plot armour. That's powerful stuff.