The Ten Worst Episodes of Doctor Who (According to Me) #6-10

[fauxkaren]

Honorable mentions: "The Next Doctor". I might be an RTD stan, but he is not without flaws, and imo this is the worst of his episodes. The Cyber King stuff is ridiculous as is the idea that a giant robot stomping through London would just be forgotten by history. But there is enough flashes of good stuff in the episode to barely save it from making

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[jessicaqueen]

I don't think 42 would make my personal Top 10 worst eps list, but you're so very right that it's an ep that strives to be TIP/TSP and falls well short. The characters aren't anywhere near as awesome, the idea of faith isn't canvassed as effectively, there are no Ood (which is a crime), and the overall premise is pretty much flawed.

Nor would SitL/FotD make my list, but it definitely has it's moments of >:(. Like Vashta Nerada = lumbering skeletons in spacesuits... what the hell, Moffat? The sense this makes is nil. And I'm with you entirely on the 'safe/saved' thing. And the Doctor trapping River in a limited 'afterlife' that she didn't ask for is more cruel than happy, IMO (but the same concept is done so much worse in Love and Monsters, so I'll let this one slide).

Otherwise, I agree completely, and I'm looking forward to seeing your Top 5. :)

[fauxkaren]

"42" is just so boring. Guh. I mean there are other episodes of Doctor Who that I find boring (like "Night Terrors"), but somehow "42" seems worse to me just because it pales in comparison to TIP/TSP which is one of my favorite stories.

SitL/FotD shifted around on my list a lot over the years. At first I hated it because of the saved/safe thing and my shipper butthurt. Then I liked it more circa series 5 because River grew on me, but now after series 6 when I'm just angry about River's entire storyline, it crept back on my worst episodes list.

[_thirty2flavors]

I thought/hoped liking River more would make me like the episodes more, but it just made me hate FOTD even more because her ending was even worse. I actually like Silence in the Library more or less -- it's just that like many two-parters the second half falls down on its face, and it falls hard. It's not until the end of FOTD that we get Donna being sidelined, River's stupid ending, the offensive bullshit with Miss Evangelista, "OMG TREES", "OMG SAFE", etc.

We do get "ice cream" though. Is that another one of Moffat's recurring themes, ICE CREAM AS THE GREATEST TRAGEDY OF OUR TIME? Also Ten has that "I was lying to shut you up" line he says to Donna and Donna doesn't kick him in the groin which is just inaccurate.

[fauxkaren]

I didn't even mention the BS with Miss Evangelista because I decided I should aim to make this post somewhat shorter than War and Peace BUT OMG. WHY, MOFFAT, WHY???? I will never get over how stupid the tree thing and safe/saved thing is.

I don't remember the "ice cream" bit. What happened with that?

Also Ten has that "I was lying to shut you up" line he says to Donna and Donna doesn't kick him in the groin which is just inaccurate.
ACCURATE.

[_thirty2flavors]

The ice cream thing is when Evangelista's data ghost is fading out, her last words are about ice cream. MAYBE SHE DROPPED HERS AS A KID TOO AND IT WAS HER SADDEST DAY.

I forgot about that line until I saw it reblogged as a gif a billion times on Tumblr and I was like UGHHHH SHUT UP MOFFATEN, I WILL KICK YOU IN THE BALLS.

[fauxkaren]

I really hope that the Bad Night miniepisode took place before AGMGTW because I'd really like to believe that Amy doesn't rate losing an ice cream cone above losing her baby.

MOFFATEN IS THE WORST. UGH. I just feel like Moffat doesn't get Ten as a character at all.

[_thirty2flavors]

BUT EVEN THEN, she still ranks ice cream higher than those times her husband died, or that time her best friend died in front of her.

lol I hate Moffaten so much. Ten can be a dick but not really in the ways Moffat writes him as a dick, and then Moffat's episodes get cited as examples of why Ten is terrible and ughhh, lol.