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From: The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com>
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Subject: Re: The top 10 worst episodes of Nu-Who 20 years on
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:46:17 -0000 (UTC)
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On 27/03/2025 13:15, Blueshirt wrote:
>The Doctor wrote:
>
>> In article <xn0p3sqwk6lkn2n008@post.eweka.nl>,
>> Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
>> >
>> > [Snip]
>> > 
>> > Series 13 - The Vanquishers (Flux Chapter 6)
>> > 
>> 
>> All sucks! Not ever DW!
>> 
>> > Tennant Specials - Wild Blue Yonder
>> 
>> Agreed!!
>> 
>> > Series 14 - Space Babies
>> > 
>> 
>> Agreed!!!
>
>Dave, rather than just type agreed or ____ sucks... can you not
>just contribute your own list of worst (or best) Doctor Who new
>series episodes?
>
>I mean, it's only twenty years so it doesn't have to be a long
>list or take you a year to think about it!
>
>Try and contribute something a bit more meaningful anyway...

Worst 10 - hmm. Going backwards in time for variety...

The Devil's Chord. Waste of a great premise,  the resolution was facile -
 far too casual for killing a God - made no logical sense. And a fourth-wall
 breaking disconnected musical number at the end. They could have done the
 same song and dance and fitted it into the script somehow , but nobody
 tried.

Praxeus. Dreary, plodding and preachy.

Orphan 55. See Praxeus.

The Battle of Ranskoor av Kolos. Dull, flat and just not a worthy season
 finale.

Kill the Moon. Stupid beyond belief.

In the Forest of the Night. Boring, stupid beyond belief and pointless.

The Angels Take Manhattan. Terrible use of Angels, awful send off and ending
 for Amy and Rory, and the excuse for never seeing them again is just absurd
 and so easy to get  around - just no.

Fear Her. Awful.

Gods and Monsters. Could have been sublime but Peter Kay and the Absorbaloff
 were just unutterably awful.

Bad Wolf. The TV pastiches were poor at the time and they haven't aged well.

Another day, I might list another ten.

-- 
There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t act a little childish
 sometimes.