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Andraste ([personal profile] andraste) wrote2007-09-05 12:42 am

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.

[identity profile] redstarrobot.livejournal.com 2007-09-04 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Caves of Androzani. It's tedious, highly derivative (and derivative of the already fairly lame and derivative "Phantom of the Opera", at that), and I've never managed to actually stay awake through the entire thing. Also, it features the whiniest companion ever, the stupidest "touching" self-sacrifice (DUDE, enough with the idiotic quest for bat milk; just spare us the pain of the coming season and let her die, all right? Seriously, does it make a difference plot-wise whether you unceremoniously give her to Caveman Brian Blessed or to the Phantom of the Quarry?), and it contains a sum total of 70 seconds of watchable senes; 30 of them are the secretary overthrowing the company, and the other 40 are all Colin Baker. And 70 seconds out of what feels like a goddamn thirty-two part story or something (I can't quite remember how many it is - I think I usually sleep through 12 or 13 of the episodes) is not much.