Doctor Who: 10 WTF Moments From The Magician's Apprentice

8. #Planeshavestopped

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Cutting back to planet Earth for a bit, and it’s another trip to Coal Hill School and a series 9 hello to Clara Oswald, in the middle of teaching (or trying to teach) her class when she notices something out of the window.

It’s not entirely clear at first what’s happening, but it appears to be some sort of alien threat, perhaps an invasion of sorts. And then she tells her students, to their delight, to get out their phones and search Twitter for the hashtag ‘planeshavestopped’.

Yes, it turns out that all of the planes in transit around the world have been frozen in time and space, which leads to the mystery of those red dots being revealed, and the return of UNIT and Jemma Redgrave’s Kate Stewart. It’s confusing as to what exactly has caused this to happen. Is it related to Davros, or is there some other threat out there? We probably should’ve guessed (and well done to those who did)… 

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