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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[sunnytyler001]

I fell asleep during A Christmas carol XD

[fauxkaren]

I was watching it with my parents, my sister and two of my cousins, so I couldn't really go off on a rant about illogical it all was and how I found the character of Abagail problematic.

I'm not really looking forward to this year's Christmas special either. AH WELL. I have the Downton Christmas special to look forward to this year.

[firstofoct]

Have you seen the promo pics???????!!!!

[fauxkaren]

DW promo pics? Nope.

Downton promo pics? YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. I MADE POSTS ABOUT THEM AT ONTD. OMG. THEY ARE MAKING ME SHAKE WITH ANTICIPATION.

[fauxkaren]

lol. I am so predictable in my tastes, so I doubt there will be many surprises, but Part 2 shall be amazing nonetheless.

[papilio_luna]

Seeing the Doctor so scared is really interesting HAWT!!!!

Fixed that for you :D

[papilio_luna]

No, my dear. That is not weird. That is perfectly natural.

[firstofoct]

I remember watching it with you guys this summer and we were like SHITTY EPISODE BUT WHY ARE MY PANTS OFF?

[phoenixrising06]

Your brain is one of my favorite brains.

Chris Chibnall episodes are neither here nor there for me. I tend not to pay much attention to them, really. I guess that just goes to show you how much of an impression they made on me.

You already know I didn't make it through ACC, but it should also be noted that I quit VotD as soon as the Skittle Daleks turned up. Like you said, too much secondhand embarrassment.

The Vashta Naradas in the spacesuits are pretty much the least scary thing I've ever seen. They're even lamer than the Clockwork Robots for me, which is saying a lot.

An interesting fact about the Donna plot: an early draft of the script had Donna's "soul mate" being woman outside of the computer, but seeing ideal self as a man inside the computer. The giveaway at the end would've been her stutter, which would identify her to the audience as Donna's dream mate.

[_thirty2flavors]

I heard that about FOTD in the commentary and thought it was interesting.

Also, as spud14 drew to my attention, I am always going to be a little sad that Donna looks better in her fake wedding than she did in her real wedding in EOT. (srsly who was responsible for that hairstyle and where can I judge them, etc).

[phoenixrising06]

CAL clearly has the better fashion sense.

[fauxkaren]

Hm. I'm not sure how I feel about having Donna's "soul mate" be a woman outside the computer just because with Moffat I'm not sure how much of that would have been about representing trans people and how much of that would have been "GOTCHA!", you know?

[_thirty2flavors]

IA with all of this as you know. I think our lists are near-identical, though just in a different order.

Victory of the Daleks is legit so bad lololol like, it's sort of a different kind of bad than most of these episodes, it doesn't really offend me morally or anything, it just offends me that someone filmed this and thought it was fine. Like with Curse of the Black Spot, which is likewise just... ...bad.

[fauxkaren]

Victory of the Daleks is so bad. When people go on about Mark "Godtiss" and how he should be the best show runner I'm just like "...really?" I mean I don't mind his other scripts he's done for the show, they're not particularly GOOD either. The Unquiet Dead isn't OMG TERRIBLE, but it's not great either and I mostly just enjoy watching Nine fanboy all over Dickens. And The Idiot's Lantern is mostly enjoyable for the Doctor/Rose aspects of it. As a storyteller, he's not great.

[_thirty2flavors]

IA, ~Godtiss~ can stick to acting IMO because he's never particularly wowed me with any of his writing.

[papilio_luna]

People say this?

I assure you, people did not used to say this. Is it because he's now Moffat's new Sherlock BFF? Because his episodes were never well regarded before.