aka the worst episodes. Again, this is based on my personal views and tastes and you may not agree 100% with this list, but these are the episodes/stories I personally found very disappointing and am attempting to erase them from my mind.
If you want to see the episodes I did like, please see my Best of Doctor Who post here.
SPOILERS AHEAD
From Series 1 (2005) Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor
There were some weak ones in series one, but nothing that I would really consider bad enough to be on this list and in retrospect anything in series 1 is a whole lot better than some of the nonsense that came after!
From Series 2 (2006) David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor
Love & Monsters
If any episode deserves to be wiped from Doctor Who history and from our minds it's this one. From the scooby doo nonsense at the beginning to the Absorbaloff to the stupid and out of character way the Doctor "saves" the main character's girlfriend (what was her name, Ursula? - Like I said, trying to erase it from my mind) to the really inappropriate and quite sickening "love life" reference at the end. There's really nothing that can redeem this episode.
From Series 3 (2007) David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor
Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks
These two aren't terrible, but really the Dalek Human creature is ridiculous and at this point, after having all been killed off for the zillionth time we should not have had to watch another episode with the Daleks. They'd really outstayed their welcome by the time this episode rolled around. Not one of the worst, but just... shouldn't have been there.
The Lazarus Experiment
This is one of the ones that really shouldn't have existed. We get some really fake and counterproductive development with Martha's family, a ridiculous bunch of nonsense with a character transforming into a scorpion creature about five times his size and then going back at will! All due to genetics, apparently...>.> and then two endings. Just terrible episodes all around.
Utopia.Sounds of Drums/Last of the Time Lords
I don't think I need to point out the bad things about this episode. IN order to do that I'd end up having to give a full synopsis. It's ok for characters, especially villains, to be completely insane, but a story/plot should have sanity and coherence at its core and both were missing in this tale that we wish we could forget.
Voyage of the Damned Christmas Special
These episodes weren't too bad, but way below the Christmas special standard. Also, they made the doctor fall in love with Astrid which was just out of character and flew in the face of all the other character development that's been happening for a full season.
From Series 4 (2008) David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor
The Doctor's Daughter
It reads like fanfiction and it's really stupid in its execution. Am I really supposed to buy the idea that that war with all those legends and so forth had only been going on for seven minutes or whatever? Because I don't buy it and never will. Also, the Doctor did not need a clone daughter. (Although, is it sad that I'd rather have her than River Song at this point?)
Planet of the Dead Special
It was slow and featured too many pointless things, such as the aliens that ended up being there simply for the purpose of giving them that bit of technology and then dying, etc. Also, Christina. I'm very grateful to the Doctor for refusing to take her on.
If I could just end this by saying all of Seasons 5-7 shouldn't have existed I would, but I think that would seem a little excessive, so...
From Series 5 (2010) Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor
Victory of the Daleks (and any other story involving Daleks from this point onwards)
The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone
... along with any other story involving the weeping angels. Moffatt made some excellent villians in Blink and then he destroyed them in one fell swoop in this story (and don't we wish it had ended here!)
The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang
proves that Moffat can't do season-long arcs, or complex plotting in general. Plot isn't about doing a bunch of random unexpected things and then solving the problems with more randomness, but this is what we get here.
From Series 6 (2011) Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor
A Good Man Goes to War
There is everything wrong about this episode, but it all boils down to the fact that it's a bunch of randomness stuck together in a way in which it fails to make sense.
The Wedding of River Song
I can't believe I'm saying this, but even Love & Monsters is good compared to this. They may have a pushed a huge reset button on events in this chapter, but how do I reset my mind and erase this experience from existence?
From Series 7 (2012/13) Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor
The Power of Three
Was completely powerless. It said nothing about anything and failed to create even the most basic character development for the Doctor, Amy and Rory.
The Angels Take Manhattan
Things need rules. The Angels had some wonderful rules that made them work as villains, in this episode that all got taken away for no reason so that now the Angels can do and be whatever Moffat's crazy plot requires. Also, the statue of liberty. Also, someone tell Moffat that suicide is not a "solution" to anything. Ever.
Then we had Bells of Saint John(a good episode) which was unfortunately followed by a Series of boring and completely forgettable episodes. The only reason I'm not including them all on this list is because I don't need to make an effort to erase them from my mind, they were gone before the credits even rolled around.
The Name of the Doctor
Once upon a time paradox, fixed point in time, and just time travel in general meant something on this show. Now... not so much. Also why is River Song still around? More to the point why is Moffat still around?
Hope you enjoyed this list. Let me know which of my choices you agree with and which ones you disagree with.
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