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Worst Episode Ever?
Glancing at the Outpost Gallifrey forums before bed, I noticed that someone had finally posted the combined results of the last round of cross-medium 'what's your favourite story?' voting. The answer is still Spare Parts, while The Talons of Weng-Chiang is the top story most people have actually heard of.
The bottom story, on the other hand, was the book version of The Ghosts of N-Space. While this is a legendarily bad story, I don't think I'd say it was the worst Doctor Who in all its occasionally glorious badness has to offer. Even given the Elvis impersonator. My nominations?
If I have to stick to TV stories, Time-Flight gets the wooden spoon. Pointless, annoying, boring tripe that looks like it was made for approximately $1.50.
My least favourite of all, though? The Unbound audio Exile, one of the few Doctor Who stories that personally offends me [1]. It's is disgustingly sexist without the excuse of having been made in the last century, but far worse, it's not funny. "The Doctor regenerates into a woman and promptly becomes an incompetent drunk" is probably the least good idea for a story in the history of anything ever. Offensive on every possible level, and made me think less of everyone involved.
So, what's your most hated Doctor Who?
[1] As opposed to the absolute legion that are offensive in the more general sense. To give you an idea how hard I am to offend, I am the card-carrying feminist who owns Sin City on DVD.
The bottom story, on the other hand, was the book version of The Ghosts of N-Space. While this is a legendarily bad story, I don't think I'd say it was the worst Doctor Who in all its occasionally glorious badness has to offer. Even given the Elvis impersonator. My nominations?
If I have to stick to TV stories, Time-Flight gets the wooden spoon. Pointless, annoying, boring tripe that looks like it was made for approximately $1.50.
My least favourite of all, though? The Unbound audio Exile, one of the few Doctor Who stories that personally offends me [1]. It's is disgustingly sexist without the excuse of having been made in the last century, but far worse, it's not funny. "The Doctor regenerates into a woman and promptly becomes an incompetent drunk" is probably the least good idea for a story in the history of anything ever. Offensive on every possible level, and made me think less of everyone involved.
So, what's your most hated Doctor Who?
[1] As opposed to the absolute legion that are offensive in the more general sense. To give you an idea how hard I am to offend, I am the card-carrying feminist who owns Sin City on DVD.
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A story so full of suck that even Peter Davison couldn't keep a straight face.
I have to say, I thought 'Timelash' was pretty stupid when I last saw it. I don't know about worst ever, but it's the episode I have the worst memories of XD
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And you can use it to help practice spotting general errors of all kinds.
True, true. Clearly, I have been interrogating it from the wrong perspective XD
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For worst audio evar, I'd have to say "Creed of the Kromon" - although I've only heard about 25 minutes of it, because that was all I could take.
For TV... I think I'm with you on Time Flight or possibly that awful one with the licorice allsorts monster (the name of which, I've scoured from my memory)
I've only just started catching up with the books (that's my reading list for the next three years sorted...) but recently I was completely and utterly underwhelmed by Halflife, an EDA by Mark Michalowski (sp?)
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Old Who: It's a toss-up between The Web Planet (the concept's not bad, but if I never hear the ssssslowly talking bugssssss again....) and Frontier In Space, in which nothing happens for at least 3 of the 6 episodes.
(I recall really hating both Ghost Light and Curse of Fenric, but I haven't seen either in quite some time, so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt until the rewatching gets to that point.)
New Who: Love and Monsters, hands down. Just, um, no. Please, no.
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I hate those! About Time offers this comment on The Web Planet:
"If everyone on Vortis acted as if this were their natural environment, and as if butterfly-people were a perfectly normal part of the terrain, then after an episode or so we might forget the weirdness of it and treat it as a place where interesting things might happen. Instead, we get showboating programme-makers constantly shouting 'look, this is alien!' at us. And we just want to shout 'no, it's stupid!' back at them."
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It is memorably awful, but I hate Minuet in Hell even more. Not even the Brig could save that one for me, I'm afraid.
For TV... I think I'm with you on Time Flight or possibly that awful one with the licorice allsorts monster (the name of which, I've scoured from my memory)
It's The Happiness Patrol, if you were morbidly curious *g*.
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Yeah, I can understand that reaction. I wanted to punch them, too, although I actually enjoy the episode. Mostly because their jerktastic behaviour here has such heavey consequences later on. (Victoria is inspired to create Torchwood which leads to Doomsday which leads to Rose trapped in another universe and the Doctor being emo.)
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Exactly! I'm all in favour of Doctor Who that is actually funny, but Exile is most assuredly not.
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Quite. I am also eternally bemused that she just happens to speak exactly the same dialect as the Aboriginal elder who left Earth thousands of years before her. Which is not translated by the TARDIS, apparently. Um, WTF?
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For me, The Twin Dilemma goes all the way through bad and comes out the other side *g*. At least it's funny, if only unintentionally so.
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You remember correctly, although both can be entertaining in a 'hilarious trainwreck' kind of way if you're that way inclined. Much like Timelash, actually.
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I loathed the entire thing, but the ending left a really bad taste in my mouth. At least if she'd survived they could have partially redeemed themselves by doing a sequel in which she had a proper adventure. I think '... and then the Doctor loses irrevocably' would be a potentially interesting end for an AU story, but Exile is not that story.
And there's no reason for her being the only portrayed-as-being-crap Doctor they've ever done other than "she's a gurl, lol"
Precisely. Additionally offensive: her previous (male) incarnation constantly lecturing her about what a terrible Doctor she is.
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It at least has the merit of being hilarious. Entirely unintentionally!
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As others have pointed out, as least it's possible to laugh at Timelash or, as one alternative titles guide dubbed it, Doctor Who and the Anagram of Surprising Honesty. Time-Flight does not even have that going for it.
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I adore the Sixth Doctor, but I certainly can't disagree with the point that Trial of a Time Lord was a horrible misfire. I'm always somewhat amazed that the series wasn't cancelled on the spot after The Ultimate Foe.
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No, "Full Fathom Five" is that story.
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Yeah, that was the bit that really, really lost me with that episode. Actually, that particular point was made in the second verse of The Ballad of Tegan Jovanka.
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It's a horrible audio all around, but the appalling accents are the last nail in the coffin.
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True! It has David Collings into the bargain.
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