What is your least favorite episode?
'Fear Her' or 'Love and Monsters?' An ending ruined by the worst, most corny solution ever VS a bad joke made worse when your mind GOES DOWN A PATH THAT IT SHOULD HAVE NEVER GONE DOWN!!!!
Hmmm..... Worst episode ever?
'Revelation of the Daleks'
This episode pretty much has no redeeming factors at all. It's a Sixth Doctor adventure (I can't take that man seriously in that outfit), the plot has no point, Peri annoys the hell out of me, and IT'S JUST BORING, OKAY! Never watch it! NEVER WATCH IT!!!!!!!!!
So what about you? What is your least favorite episode?
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psycicflower 114p · 735 weeks ago
While there are other episodes I dislike, they do have some redeeming qualities whether it’s a scene, a character or a story/idea that had potential but stumbled over a few hurdles. However ‘Fear Her’ doesn’t really have any of these, or at least not to the same extent. I don’t even know what to say about why I dislike it, which is probably a sign of how bad it is. With other things I dislike in Doctor Who I’ll talk about why I don’t like it or try to understand where it’s coming from or how it fits into the show, but I can’t even be bothered with the effort for ‘Fear Her’. My reaction to the whole thing is just:
NB2000 115p · 735 weeks ago
So, my least favourite: The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood (two parters totally count as one right?)
Okay there are some bits in them I like, Nasreen is delightful, Mo (the guy that gets abducted at the beginning) is lovely and I do think the actual make-up for the Silurians is really good. It's just that...it's so full of really awful parts that I can't enjoy it. The big one being RORY GETTING SHOT! It leads to the lovely reunion scenes in Pandorica Opens but still :'(
flamingpie 89p · 735 weeks ago
Medli 141p · 735 weeks ago
Love & Monsters is one that pops immediately to mind. I didn't like the portrayal of fandom here (I think in the hands of someone like Moffat, it could have been amazing), and I REALLY hate that ending, as I ranted about in my comment in Mark's review. Why RTD almost never seems to get raked over the coals for this disgusting bit of sexism is quite beyond me.
Then there's Fear Her. See Mark's hilariously rage-filled review for why I hate it. He said everything I'd want to say, and even added in a gif that still makes me laugh my ass off.
Freshest in my mind, and why this has to be a three-way tie rather than a contest between the above two, is End of Time. I rewatched them recently for the first time since my initial viewing, in the interest of doing accurate reviews, and I... I just... it was like watching an MST3k flick unriffed. By the time I reached the part where Donna serves margaritas in Part One, I really wanted to reach through the screen and drink all of them. There were some flashes of quality, like anything involving Wilf, and I loved the Skeletor reference, that genuinely made me laugh, but most of it was just like... what. What. What. Everything surrounding the Master was so bizarre: the whole Secret Books of Saxon thing and the cult, the weird resurrection scene, and the mess of WTF that was him after he'd been resurrected. I couldn't understand the point of the Naismiths, a lot of the dialogue and narration was godawful, I had issues with some of the endings (and it felt like Return of the King all up in there), I felt like poor Timothy Dalton was wasted on this dreck, the list goes on and on. WTF, RTD, just... WTF.
echinodermata 118p · 735 weeks ago
I do remember some cool stuff with Jackie (though I also remember it only furthering the 'older woman being sexual ISN'T THAT FUNNY' thing and DNW). I also hate the monster. Stupid and I don't care if it was a kid's contest or something, they picked that? And also, more of a pet peeve, but I tend to like when fandom is dealed with on TV shows. This episode could have been interesting and great, but it just utterly failed in execution for me. So an episode that not only makes me angry for what it did, but also angry for what it could have been but didn't aspire to be. Anyway, I think other episodes are worse, but this is the episode that I have absolutely no desire to watch again, and that's why it's my least favorite.
In contrast, I think End of Time, Part 1 is just utter shit. But I'm so appalled at it's low quality that it's one of those things I actually can bear to rewatch since it's sort of mesmirizingly bad.
It has the weird shit with Lucy and a crap scene with bad acting when they bring the Master back. It's got the weird hungriness thing with the Master, and then he eats people? And some not very good special effects, and then he can jump really high now or something.
We get some weird pacing issues, we get the Naismiths, whose purpose to the story I just don't get, and look, it wasn't that long ago that this first aired and I still remember my first reaction being utter confusion at this actually being a Doctor Who episode, cause it was just So. Bad.
And then the final reveal is interesting and all, but I could not get over the spittle. I don't think Part 2 is that much better, but at least shit happened in it, ya know?
So there you go. My least favorite episode is Love and Monsters, but I think the worst episode is EoT, Part 1.
fantasylover12001 · 735 weeks ago
PeterRabid 81p · 735 weeks ago
Openattheclose 99p · 735 weeks ago
Dragon Elexus 124p · 735 weeks ago
Fear Her was and episode I watched only once, and I remember thinking. "Er....what just happened? That was lame." So that probably gets my position on the poll.
Anyway, I hate being negative, so I can't wait to on to more cheerful topics of discussion.
Hypatia_ 99p · 735 weeks ago
That is all.
Selthia 68p · 735 weeks ago
The only good thing about that episode was what it told us about Jackie.
Fear Her is a close second. The only reason it's not first is because at least you have more of the Doctor in the episode to make up for the rest of it.
Kaybee42 91p · 734 weeks ago
The Pandorica Opens
I didn't mind the more intimate feel. The acting was brilliant. I loved all the characters (even River by that point, who had grown on me throughout the series). The plot was tight and pretty much flawless (relatively. I know there's debate about the time loop/ paradox re. the doctor letting himself out, but I didn't even mind about that). It was funny and dramatic.
So really, you'd think it was perfect? But I guessed that the Pandorica was going to hold the Doctor, and that the romans weren't real... And the whole 2 episodes just weren't up to what I'd been growing to expect throughout the series.
I do, however, hold out hope that the fact that it seems to be a two series arc will mean a MUCH better and more unexpected finale.
(I'd like to re iterate that I didn't hate this episode, and there isn't really anything that I can pinpoint about it to say why I didn't love it. It just disappointed me a bit)
My favourite bit was the something old, something new, something borrowed something blue. That bit was totally awesome!
EDIT: I'm going to take The Big Bang out of this, because while there was still a bit of disappointment, I did enjoy it a lot more than TPO. Amelia and the timey wimey ness of it was great. So yeah, not my favourite finale, and I think it could have/ should have been better. But not bad and a lot better than TPO.
asherat 80p · 734 weeks ago
ShayzGirl 67p · 731 weeks ago
Okay, moving on. I don't want to think about it anymore. I just don't.