Worst Episode Ever?

[andraste]

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.

Comments

[redfiona99.livejournal.com]

Not read many of the non-episode based books or heard any of the audios, so I'm a bit useless for that, but in terms of TV episodes - 'Tooth And Claw'. There have been more boring episodes, there have been episodes with far worse effects, there have been plots that were much more stupid, but no other episode causes me to want to put my fist through the face of our heroes.

[andraste]

There have been more boring episodes, there have been episodes with far worse effects, there have been plots that were much more stupid, but no other episode causes me to want to put my fist through the face of our heroes.

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.)

[kerravonsen]

I simply can't bear to re-watch "Tooth and Claw". I may not want to put my fist through their faces, but I certainly want to slap some sense into both the Doctor and Rose.