Factual error: At the end, when the Doctor shows her companions the asteroid named for Rosa Parks, it's depicted in a dense asteroid field which looks absolutely nothing like the (very sparse) asteroid belt does in real life.
skater49th
4th Jan 2020
Doctor Who (2005)
10th Nov 2019
Doctor Who (2005)
The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe - S7-E1
Factual error: Cyril is introduced looking at the Moon with a telescope... in a brightly-lit room through a window with the curtains mostly shut, circumstances in which he's not going to see anything at all. (00:03:56)
9th Nov 2019
Doctor Who (2005)
The Wedding of River Song - S6-E14
Factual error: During the zoom-out from Earth at the end, the Sun is depicted as far, far too large than it actually appears from Earth. (00:40:03)
16th Oct 2019
Doctor Who (2005)
Factual error: Colonel Mace says the Sontaran ship is orbiting 5,000 miles (8,050 km) above the Earth. However, in shots of and from the ship in both this episode and "The Sontaran Stratagem", the Earth appears far too small for the ship to be that close, with the ship's true distance appearing to be well over double that. (00:08:34)
11th Oct 2019
Doctor Who (2005)
Factual error: Kandoka labour laws require companies like Kerblam! to have a minimum of 10% organic staff. The villain claims that, as a result, only 10% of humans are employed, at all. These are two completely different quantities: if 10% of the cars in one parking lot are blue, this doesn't indicate that 10% of all cars are painted blue, but that's effectively what the episode thinks. The fact that no-one else, including the Doctor, calls him on this further magnifies the mathematical error.
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