The Ten Worst Episodes of Doctor Who (According to Me) #1-5

[fauxkaren]

Sometime in the next week, I shall post my list of the 10 Best Episodes of Doctor Who since focusing on the worst is just a lot of negativity, but for now here are the Worst Episodes of Doctor Who!

Comments

[kilodalton]

I like the NY Dalek eps too. They have heart =)

There is so much I can't forgive GITF for, and I've said it so many times but idc, I'll keep saying it. I could hand wave so much away, but the fact that he sends Rose and Mickey into a spaceship that just slaughtered an entire space station crew ... and then disappears to go to a party??? Nononono.

The one thing I'm a smidge grateful for is Moffat's public comment that Reinette's use of the word dancing was as flirtation, and that nothing besides party!time happened that night. Besides being ooc, can you imagine that? And then the next thing Ten would have done in that case is to send in the companion-he's-in-love-with-yet-had-abandoned-to-DIE-for-that-purpose in to talk with the woman-he-had-had-a-one-night-stand with?

Omg my hatred of Ten would know NO bounds. I would be cheering during The End of Time, for realz.

[fauxkaren]

I just tend to not think of TGitF as canon. Moffaten is such a douche. Kali pointed out a line from the library episodes where Ten tells Donna that he lied to her to shut her up. UGH.

[kilodalton]

I'd like to do that, but it is juuuuust enough in sync with other early s2 canon (in terms of Ten pushing Rose away emotionally, Ten running after shiny objects during an adventure and kind of leaving Rose in a lurch), that it is hard for me to discount it 100% because I do see a few trends there that are in keeping with how actual!Ten acts.

That and, in general, it's really hard for me to accept some things as canon and handwave away others. It's a skill I've yet to develop lol.

[phoenixrising06]

There's also a line Moffat wrote that got cut, which I can't remember the exact phrasing of, unfortunately, but when Ten sends Donna back to the TARDIS to keep her safe he makes some comment about how great it is to have an off button for Donna.

[_thirty2flavors]

OMG

OMG

I CAN'T

[_thirty2flavors]

LIKE LEGIT I HAVE NEVER HEARD THAT BEFORE AND I AM LIKE

[anna_sg1]

MOFFAT IS THE ABSOLUTE WORST OMG!!!!

[sherrilina]

Wow, really?! There's a good line for those Moffat fans who love Donna to chew on!

[phoenixrising06]

There is so much I can't forgive GITF for, and I've said it so many times but idc, I'll keep saying it. I could hand wave so much away, but the fact that he sends Rose and Mickey into a spaceship that just slaughtered an entire space station crew ... and then disappears to go to a party??? Nononono.

This. A thousand times this. I have so many issues with this episode, but this is the one thing I can point to that no one can talk their way out of. There is no justification for that. How that ever got past RTD, Billie Piper, Julie Gardner, and David Tennant as okay will forever be a mystery to me.

[fauxkaren]

RTD didn't edit the scripts of people who had previously been showrunners out of respect for the position or something. So he and Julie didn't have a say, and of course the actors pretty much NEVER have a say. But idk. RTD does have a lot of professional respect for Moffat so yeah.

[phoenixrising06]

Yeah, I know. I suppose I'm just peeved at how much smoke they seem to blow up this episode's ass, to put it less than delicately.