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

[zombie_boogie]

Well, you know which entry I disagree with on this list, but the rest seems fine to me. I hate "Let's Kill Hitler" so much. Soooooo much. So much, in fact, that I have yet to watch the rest of series 6 (and I loved series 5). It's nice that even though we're fans of different eras and characters that we can be united over how much series 6 blows.

[anna_sg1]

LOL at #5, that one definitely cought me by surprise. But I do agree with you on the awkward pacing. I honestly thought the episode ended that first time. Just, weird.

And, you know, AGREED on everything else. As bad as s6 was, it wasn't until LKH that everything was RUINED for me. And now that we ~know everything~ even the episodes with River I kinda enjoyed are ruined. Moffat maybe gets a good idea for a plot, but when it comes to fleshing it out in episodes - it blows apart in a million different directions and when he tries to put it together there are bits missing.

[sherrilina]

it's funny that even though the River we see here is probably one of the oldest Rivers we've ever seen (aka the Library is probably not that far off)

Why do you say that? :s What would indicate that to you, I'm curious? In s6 they make such a BIG deal of them traveling and meeting in exact opposite order or something, by which her speech in AGMGTW would be before all of her appearances in season 5, not nearly the oldest River we've seen...:s

And I'm not sure if she was faking in TIA, didn't they say that they might have affected her memory a bit or something? IDK, none of it hangs together!

[fauxkaren]

Moffat says things that sound good that he doesn't actually mean. Like how the series 5 crack was supposed to erase people as if they never existed, but then that wasn't actually the case because if the Doctor never existed, the Earth would have been destroyed a million times over. I think the idea of them meeting in exact backward order is nice and is generally how their stories go, but isn't exactly how it works.

I think the River in AGMGTW seems to know a lot, she knows that she is the baby and her name was Melody Pond (because she shows the name to the Doctor) and is calling it the Doctor's darkest day and such. She is at LEAST post-TWORS, but she also seems to recognize Rory and Amy which makes me think that she is probably post The Big Bang.

There's a line somewhere in... The Wedding of River Song, I think, where River says that she had to pretend she didn't know anything about the spacesuit, if I'm remembering correctly. So yeah, the show is actually going with the fact the River is just an ~amazing actress...

[notemily]

ahahaha I love the pic you chose for The Lazarus Experiment. THEIR FACES

[fauxkaren]

The problem for me with series 6 is that I DON'T particularly like any of these characters. Well, I think River is fun. I like Rory well enough. But I don't really get Amy and series 6 made me hate Eleven. So for me, when the plot goes off the rails, the characters aren't there to hold the show up for me.

[notemily]

Yeah, I can certainly understand that. It'll be interesting to see what kind of direction Season 7 takes.

Agree totally

[anonymous]

I totally agree with your list. LOL almost all of them are from seasons 5 and 6. I greatly prefer RTD to Moffat. Moffat has occasional good eps but as a showrunner he's terrible. He's way too focussed on creating mindblowing endings and stuff, he totally forgets about character development and stuff like that. I really didn't like how Amy and Rory forgot about their baby so fast. I mean, hello? It's a CHILD. How can your like forget about it as soon as your back is turned? I know it's a writer's error but it really turned me against Amy (well she was annoying from the start). I miss Ten and Nine, I really do.