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

[st-aurafina.livejournal.com]

I hate, hate, hate Four to Doomsday. All that sitting around watching dancing when people are going to be killing them any time now? And Tegan, argh! Normally I'm fond of her, but in this one, she's getting her Aussie on so hard it makes my skin crawl.

[andraste]

I hate, hate, hate Four to Doomsday. All that sitting around watching dancing when people are going to be killing them any time now? And Tegan, argh! Normally I'm fond of her, but in this one, she's getting her Aussie on so hard it makes my skin crawl.

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?

[kerravonsen]

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.

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.