Doctor Who: 17 Cool Details Steven Moffat Just Revealed About The Eleventh Hour

13. The CG Fangs Were Still Being Tweaked The Day Before The Episode's Press Launch

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Doctor Who has never been known for its stellar visual effects, with the BBC not exactly giving the show a Game of Thrones-level budget.

And so, The Eleventh Hour - like the majority of modern Who episodes - features some questionable CGI, something that Moffat himself will even admit.

During the watch-along, the writer singled out the fangs in the human mouths (specifically, the shots of the man with his dog) as being one of the episode's dodgy visual moments, stating that the production team just couldn't get the effect to look right. But that didn't stop them from tweaking it until the last minute.

And we mean that quite literally, too. Apparently, Moffat and Piers Wenger went into the edit bay the day before the episode was due to be screened to the press, and added some camera shake to the fang shots in an attempt to conceal the iffy CGI.

Honestly, the fangs don't even look that bad, especially when compared to some of modern Who's awful special effects (the creature from The Lazarus Experiment, anyone?), and even then, rubbish CGI is part of the cheesy charm of the show.

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