Doctor Who: 20 Things You Didn't Know About Heaven Sent

13. The Unusual Spoon Mistake

Doctor Who Heaven Sent Peter Capaldi Twelfth Doctor
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What is it with the Twelfth Doctor and spoons? He used one to fight Robin Hood, and now there's this. The man's obsessed!

When the Doctor is eating some soup, he gets distracted and drops the spoon in the bowl. The close-up of this happening is meant to be for dramatic effect, but it accidentally reveals a mistake so strange that it got a whole Radio Times article to itself.

Doctor Who Heaven Sent spoon mistake
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When the spoon has fallen, you can see a second one just behind it, complete with another person's arm holding it up!

Doctor Who Heaven Sent spoon mistake
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What was the purpose of the second arm and the second spoon? Was this spoon to perform the drip, while Capaldi dropped the main one? Or was it the confession dial playing tricks on our hero? Spooky.

 
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