10 Worst Doctor Who Moments Of 2024

[@WhoCulture]

Any Worst Moments that we missed? Let us know - and stay tuned for Greatest Moments coming very soon!

[@Legendary3Dgamer]

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[@soundgal_sine_qua_non]

Not one mention of River in the season other than in a New to Who KZbin video 😢 that's the down for me, especially for the Doctor that's been to therapy and allows himself to feel things. One would think he would stop holding her as close to the chest as the previous Doctors did.

[@xandergrogan2012]

the doctor excessively crying.. yes, i get the timelord is emotional but not every episode...

[@gwenever7286]

the non stop crying, there are emotional 12 year old girls on some of Disneys shows who spend less time weeping than the Doctor.

[@Oddlot0930]

The worst moment was when they decided to make the episodes about 10-15 minutes shorter than they need to be.

[@lycos94]

and how the doctor crying in every episode was more a ''oh here he goes again'' instead of the powerful moment it should be

[@emeraldknight72]

7:43 I still say that the Space Babies wouldn’t have been as weird if their strollers translated for the babies and their voices came out of speakers on the strollers. Cheaper and less creepy.

[@cameronmonaghan6883]

Or more creepy (depending on the voice) But yeah that would've worked.

[@emeraldknight72]

@cameronmonaghan6883. Fair enough. 😆. I guess I should have said less creepy-LOOKING. 🤣

[@retrogiftsuk4812]

I think a lot of focus is put on the lip syncing. However one of the main reasons that the mouths look wrong is subconscious. What the babies were saying had no relation to their facial expressions or gestures. No matter what they did with the speech, if you have a baby saying how scared it is... But has a happy face and gestures it's going to look wrong. (Acting isn't just about what you do with your mouth)

[@harveyburton7]

The Death of Ricky September has to be number 1 💔 Justice for Ricky September!!!

[@tainkirrahe]

He was a racist living in a racist society lmao. Being hot doesn’t make you a good person.

[@elliesteele2027]

​@@tainkirraheSince he was the only one that was actually educated, it's possible he might have thought otherwise. Though everything he had to read would have been supplied _by_ the racist government so it might just have been packed with racist propaganda.

[@terrymoore595]

The racist guy wtf

[@harveyburton7]

@terrymoore595 Well, he was more educated than the rest of the people and possessed more empathetic qualities, so I would like to believe that his attitude would also be different

[@jakesinclair69420]

​@@terrymoore595 bro he wasn't racist, it was l*ndy who was racist. Ricky September was beautiful, understanding, and educated

[@ryanpetty8843]

Another missed opportunity was not making the chord that trapped Maestro contain the notes C A G and E

[@jjwubs1638]

That would be an Am7, right?

[@OrphanGrei]

Or G A G G E D! Very drag race

[@Devlinator61116]

Twelve: "People don't put 'space' in front of everything." Fifteen: "Space babies!"

[@vortexalliance9938]

Should have also put The Doctors rushed/forced romance with Rouge. Making the doctor instantly fall in love with a killer and nearly saying yes to marry him in just half an half when some of that was Rogue trying to kill him was so stupid

[@irrumnaaz]

I agree 💯

[@CubesBR67]

the history is basicly a fan fic

[@Pat12379]

I actually really liked the episode but yeah I agree

[@Pat12379]

I actually really liked the episode but yeah I agree

[@karenhenderson4546]

It was the air humping that was so wrong....so unlike something the Doctor would do while his companion was in danger.

[@LibertyBridgeProductions]

Hot take! Sutekh reveal was bad. I’ve been a massive doctor who fan for 14 years, and it meant nothing to me. It went off nothing previously established and he ended up being bland and uninteresting. He is evil and likes to kill so kills everyone. That’s it. Not interesting to me at all. Susan however being the doctor’s granddaughter, that’s very interesting.

[@JohnAlzayat]

You forgot to mention Sutekh supposedly latching onto the Tardis back in the 4th's lifetime when 11,12 AND 13 all would have felt something back then. Heck we had a SPEAKING TARDIS during 11's time and she didn't say anything about it. She wouldn't stop talking she definitely would have said something. Or when the weird ghost thing tried to possess the actual police box in the same episode Sutekh could have and would have slapped it out instantly.

[@Domihork]

I honestly don't get why Sutekh couldn't have latched onto the TARDIS at the edge of the universe in the 60th anniversary. And it still would have worked with him being present in a large portion of the universe because the TARDIS travelled from the edge to somewhere in the middle.

[@milesunsworth6365]

​@@Domihorkbetter yet, he latched on to the Tardis on the night of Christmas Eve 2004 when the Doctor saved baby Ruby from the goblins creating a scenario where the solution to the Sutekh problem may be undoing that - restoring the miserable timeline we saw for a moment in Church on Ruby Road. Because we know the Doctor will reboot and save the universe at the end, so why not make the tension of the episode about HOW he'll do it. Then when he can do it without sacrificing Ruby, it's actually satisfying. Could also explain away the snow and inconclusive scans and Maestro's fear by saying she's a space time anomoly/aberration.

[@ZOLTAR436]

​​@@Domihork this is what I wanted to happen especially because in a doctor who comic which had Sutek in it, he moved sideways in his time vortex tunnel that the 4th doctor trapped him in. And when he stepped out the vortex sideways he was at the edge of the universe, The Same place that the doctor and Donna were in the 60th special so they could have said Sutekh sensed the tardis and moved sideways and latched onto it from there. PLUS the tardis made that groaning noise in wild blue yonder meaning Sutekh was there latched onto That tardis.

[@KevinWalsh-m7w]

Why didn't Sutekh knock Captain Jack off. Hope this storyline is over.

[@csueconner9711]

Agreed

[@ugolomb]

I didn't mind Ruby's mother being an ordinary human. But it could have been handled a lot better. One solution that's been suggested by several people I've heard/read is that some entity had interfered with the *memory* of Ruby's mother. Thus, for instance, Louise Miller (the mother) didn't point -- and in "Church of Ruby Road" she actually didn't -- but the memory of the night was altered by some entity so that the VHS tape, the Time Window and even the Doctor's own memory would make it look as if she did. All this would create a false trail to mislead Sutekh and have him assign great importance to her, leading him on a wild goose chase and making it easier for the Doctor and Ruby to defeat him. The identity of the memory-altering entity could have been incorporated into the story -- making that entity (the Tardis? another god?) an ally of the Doctor; or it could have been left as an explicitly open question, to be resolved in the next season

[@ZOLTAR436]

Mrs flood's name was on a list on the set of doctor who and she had a description about her and in the description it said that she was the god of stories / an ancient story teller which is why she can break the 4th wall. So maybe she has the power to alter peoples memory's because 'memorys are where stories go when they are forgotten' that is something that Peter capaldi's doctor said to Clara when he had forgotten her in that cafe that was also a tardis in hell bent. I rewatch the last two episodes of Doctor from this year and Mrs flood said 'oh I had such plans' meaning she was beginning with her plan so maybe she was the one altering the doctor's memory of that night as he said that the memory of Ruby's mum had changed.

[@gestaltdude]

There is also talk that the big reveal will come from Ruby's father, not the mother.

[@KutayYavuz]

Sutekh laching onto the tardis for 40 years or sth

[@TheDigitalApple]

Hey, Russel that doesn’t sound cool, it instead makes Sutekh sound like a lazy fool and you more of a far cry than what you once were.

[@KutayYavuz]

Omg sorry it is like more than a thousand years within the lore lol

[@AnubisX1]

Mine was them going with disney. Even before this Disney had started to become not so good, only commissioning shows for 1 or 2 seasons then cancelling them. Disney has pretty much run Star wars into the ground. Also the other issues where the doctor crying way to much which took away the impact of when it was meant to really mean something. Also Sutekh being sat on the tardis, so 12, 13, yaz and jack have sat on him. The amount of times the tardis has been destroyed, when house took over it.. Sutekh did nothing.... doesn't make sense. The Comics brought sutekh back in a far better way.

[@YoGurlShanilla]

I totally agree with you, once Disney made Star Wars show....I gave up lol it's just too chessy and such

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

Disney Star Wars is fan fiction.

[@Rhewtani]

Whoculture's disdain for Space Babies still bewilders me.

[@KirbySans]

As an Australian fan, so interesting to hear how various different UK WHO KZbinrs are sooo spicy and not happy about the new air date loool

[@Bored_Barbarian]

Third. I hate the ending of 73 yards. 0 explanation oof

[@DrWhoFanJ]

Said no-one with a brain ever.

[@DavidTraynier]

I think the general desecration of Pyramids of Mars was the worst thing about this season - and the massive letdown at the end of the otherwise excellent 73 Yards. I didn't want everything explained but I did at least want +some+ sort of sense to it.

[@michaeltortorice9876]

Not really a fan of "worst" lists, but sometimes... #JusticeForTheJukebox! I was giggling (THE Giggle? Maybe...) through the whole video because, while Richard wrote a great script, my Lord, Ellie's delivery... I'll just leave it at that. Great job, guys. Happy Who-Mas! 🎄🎄🎄

[@cjab__]

I just finished rewatching the entire series and after trudging through the Chibnall era, I couldn't be happier with the quality of this year's DW.

[@walpolekidscomics879]

1. Yes wasted beatles 4. Yes space babies bad 3. Yes as an international i am sad that who is not all in one place, especially classic which is unavliable other than dvd 2. Yes i love musicials but you are right, we need better overall 1. Yes

[@m0r1arty]

Number √(−1) Mrs Flood breaking the fourth wall without it being made relevant within the season.

[@JamesMaund538]

They gotta have something to setup for the next season, one season won’t explain every single question

[@m0r1arty]

@@JamesMaund538 True, and RTD does like to carry things over like with Bad Wolf and Saxon. However in establishing that Mrs Flood is aware of the audience, and the overarching story, having what she said be relevant diminishes all other stories risk and therefore value.

[@Cyklopz007]

Space Babies>Rogue

[@EmpireGamingWynter]

Apparently in The Devil's Chord, the musical number happened because when music returned to the world, they were at the epicenter and it affected them the most To me thats a good explanation and should have been left in

[@ZOLTAR436]

It's also a parallel of what happened with the Toymaker as his 'Domain' was still active after his defeat so the 'essence of music' was active after Meastro's deafet which is something that I thought up.

[@RedX101]

So we blame Disney??? Fair enough

[@kevin10001]

As for ruby’s mother pointing a a road sign the did say in the legand of ruby Sunday the memory was changing which does mean the pointing was still completely unnecessary cause nobody from the church saw her point to the sign anyway and I would say Russell’s return was a disaster cause he seemed to be more focused on being more focused on becoming the doctor universe version of Kevin Feige then giving us a coherent season

[@B__C__]

Folks at the church would eventually have seen the tape after the police were called in about the abandoned baby, and they all sat through it trying to figure out who left it there.

[@michaelmcchesney6645]

I'll say it again: they should have used my solution to the mystery of Ruby. My idea was that Ruby's mother would turn out to be (the best character) River Song. River would have discovered she was pregnant after her night on Darillium with Peter Capaldi, but before she went to the Library. To keep her baby safe, she left Ruby at the church because she trusted the Tardis to bring the Doctor to Ruby when she needed him. I was pretty sure my theory was wrong until I watched The Legend of Ruby Sunday. In that episode, the Doctor tells Kate that, even though he had a granddaughter, he hadn't had any children yet. How was that possible? Because Time Lords do things out of order. If Ruby was the Doctor's daughter, she could also be Susan's mother. Wouldn't that have been better than the resolution the show gave us?

[@HatlessMuffin]

My first doctor was the 9th Doctor and I was hooked, the humour, sheer imagination, breath of story the acting, charismatic natural acting we had the golden age of who. I watched the classics loved large majority of them. To me, this new series was the 4th worst series ever made. The current doctor didn't cry only in one episode...the episode he was in for a few minutes.

[@JF-xx9yn]

I really felt that there was a 3 minute extra scene at the end where John and Paul added the chord to the end of Sgt Pepper's in a similar way to catching the Silence with the moon landing footage - every time the song is played it would banish the Maestro. But maybe it's just my headcannon.

[@gwenever7286]

As this list illustrates, so many major issues with season 1, and it really is overall the worst first season of any Doctor in the modern era. I really expected better from RTD and a much bigger budget. Its notable that so many issues with this season that the Doctor turning into Tiny Tears in almost every episode couldnt even get in to the top ten here.

[@Charliefarley170287]

For me the worst bit of the series was that painful line in 73 Yards from Carla to Ruby. If I ever meet RTD I might have to sit him down and talk about how to write a good adoption plot that won’t hurt adopted viewers.

[@Phe0nix1986]

Might i ask what the comment was? I only watched the episode when it came out.

[@elliesteele2027]

No mention of 73 yards having no explanation, being undone entirely and thus becoming completely irrelevant to the plot? All while RTD himself seemingly doesn't know what was going on himself despite his claims otherwise.

[@DrWhoFanJ]

No, because none of that is actually true.

[@elliesteele2027]

​@@DrWhoFanJ Then can you explain what actually happened and why? How did Ruby become the woman? Why was there a fairy circle to banish the future Prime Minister? Why did everyone who spoke to the woman run away? What did the hand gestures mean? If only one or two questions were left, I'd be fine with it. Instead, almost nothing actually gets a solid explanation.

[@DrWhoFanJ]

@ It’s meant to be unexplained. That was the point. Complaining that something designed to be unexplained has not been explained makes no sense, but you obviously will never understand that concept.

[@mythicalmonsterman1651]

​@elliesteele2027 I agree. Also, something from that episode that has confused me the more I think about it is the Doctor saying that mad Jack is the most dangerous prime minister in history because he tried to launch nuclear missiles (or whatever weapon he was going to use). Personally, I don't see how Jack (the prime minister who ALMOST destroyed the Earth) is worse than the Master (the prime minister that practically enslaved the Earth, made the Doctor his "pet", and transferred living human heads into his attack droids (the Toclafane) for an entire year!)

[@Ba-pb8ul]

@@DrWhoFanJ It's meant to be unexplained. That was the point. F*** me, listen to yourself.

[@cazyprogam9]

Ruby's ending still doesn't make sense to me with how the season built it up plus wasn't the god of death unable to see her mother? So how that work

[@eleanorcooke7136]

It feels like they tried to do a Bad Wolf then halfway in said "screw it it's too much work."

[@ZOLTAR436]

​​@@eleanorcooke7136the bad wolf reveal was SOOO MUCH BETTER than Ruby's mother reveal. One way it could be saved is if Ruby's dad is a creation of a God like the trickster or something cause [some people make comparisons between Ruby's theme and that girl from Sarah Jane adventures, as their themes sound similar to each other but 'ginnys' theme is slower of something like that] I think her name was ginny, I dunno. Which made people theorise that Ruby is a child of the trickster but tht didn't happen. But with the ways things are going the dad is just gonna be normal 😔😞and that's a boring story.

[@The-Hazbin-Devil04]

I really hate the 4th wall breaks, because Doctor Who didn't do that before, and there is no explanation on why people are breaking the 4th wall.

[@DrWhoFanJ]

It’s done that many times before. The explanation is coming.

[@Iionsong]

@@DrWhoFanJthis!! i'm so confused as to why people have just decided that these things won't be explained?? i was unimpressed with the finale but it quite literally teased that answers will come

[@ZOLTAR436]

The 12th doctor broke the 4th wall when he explained the bootstrap paradox in before the flood. Did you just forget that 🤨

[@goldexperience5713]

12, 7, 4 and (kind of) 1 and 11 have all broken the 4th wall. 12 and 4 were a lot more direct with their breaks too

[@DrWhoFanJ]

@ And 6 did it in his very first scene!

[@geraintwilliams531]

Having lots of the final episode in the trailer and being too clever for it's own good too (ending of Devil's Chord & Richard e Grant), and the DR crying every two seconds. Oh, characters addressing the camera directly too. Hoping for more cohesiveness and drama for season 15 please!

[@Manganra7]

For Splice’s behavior, I interpreted it as that society’s culture and education being so, so, so wrecked from the generations of being slaughtered that the children don’t grow up properly and are psychologically regressive as a coping mechanism. But you could be right that casting a younger actress would be better.

[@Heru3005]

My personal hot take: 73 Yards was crap. Mainly because the whole "it's magic" explanation runs entirely counter to everything that's been established since NuWho began.

[@RikBooker]

Just ten? I could effortlessly name fifty! We have to kick RTD to the curb and get this show back on track before it’s axed. Let RTD go do a reboot of skins or something.

[@jamiegannon2327]

A series full of disappointments both major and minor. I liked Ncuti much more in ‘Sex Education.’

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

Funny how almost all of the worst moments mentioned can be put on the showrunner...

[@Trifilaki]

What about him crying nearly every episode? It got ridiculous.

[@tenzhitihsien888]

I didn't even notice the cgi baby mouths, and I would still like to forget the whole Space Babies episode.

[@captainawesome0711]

I think the show wasted David Tennant’s return on the 60th… imagine if they used the BiGeneration to setup the Valeyard as played by Tennant. We could’ve had one of the most interesting seasons of television, which would solidify this as a distinctly new era. I think it’s wasted potential tbh, Tennant would’ve been the best choice to play the Valeyard

[@Heru3005]

"wasted potential" pretty much sums up the entire season imo

[@DrWhoFanJ]

@@Heru3005 Said no-one with a brain ever.

[@ZOLTAR436]

I rewatched TLORS and EOD a couple minutes ago and TLORS is such a good set up but EMPIRE OF DEATH isn't the best finale from Doctor who. It does the emotion was good but Ruby's mum being ordinary was a terrible payoff to Ruby being able to make it snow whenever she thought about the night she was born

[@StephenTurnerVlogs]

I'm really enjoying your videos. I'm in Ireland. There's NOTHING on Disney+!!! The 60ths and Ncuti's first series were such epic let downs! I have no desire to watch the show anymore. Millie was the only thing worth watching.

[@kevinfisher489]

Absolutely awful CGI, the BBC did better in the sixties with a few bits of plastic and cardboard. Only 1 interesting episode out of the ones I saw. Unfortunately, as someone who's watched since the 60s I gave up before the season ended. Show needs some writing talent and a new show runner.

[@josephlobosco3647]

Doctor Who was always fond of social satire. How about a Doctor Who story about people all over the world watching their tablets and discovering that several years of their lives have past? It will be an episode Illustrating how much of a time vampire our electronic devices have become!

[@eleanorcooke7136]

I still want an episode where the Doctor has to contend with an evil version of himself. Not a clone or anything, actually himself but pushed to the point of no return. Like take where the Doctor was at in Waters of Mars, take the Time Lord Victorious and make the new Doctor try and face off with him to put the time streams right as TLV does what he wants.

[@connormaze2605]

As someone who regularly works 2pm to 11pm shifts I loved the Midnight releases, by the the time id walk home it would be about 11:30 i could make a cup of tea and sit down watch Doctor Who and then go to bed

[@weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars]

The thing about a midnight release, that's like a magical thing for kids. I'm thinking of the bookshops that held special Harry Potter events, kids all dressed up, owls in the shop. They were magical to see, it was an entire experience. The thing with a midnight release for Doctor Who.... The fanbase is a wide range of ages, and Many of us over fifty, sixty, seventy due to the show being going 6 Decades. We're at home in a domestic setting, there's distractions, we're Knackered, we're falling asleep. Who the hell has the energy to be up and properly awake at that hour to watch a programme?? if I'm viewing I want to Remember what I've seen, not fall asleep half way through. Parents with young kids would have the same issue. As for CGI, it's been horrendous at times, bad CGI is never good and never as acceptable as the wobbly sets we used to have decades ago. Those are endearing to cringe but poor CGI is just dire and jarring. As for musicals within Doctor Who, please Don't!!!!!!!!!! They're horrific, disturbing and cringe of the worst kind.

[@frontier51]

I am loving the negativity out of Who Culture lately. LOL. Just kidding. But they gave rave reviews to basically every episode last season and it didn't feel honest. They've balanced the tone out surprisingly well since then.

[@Winjoe69]

This video is exactly why I stopped watching WhoCulture for a few months. The negativity less than a week before a new Christmas episode is a real bummer. Doctor Who has always been a unicorn of a show. Judging it by "Ups and Downs" and "10 Worst and Best Moments..." doesn't do the show justice. I wonder how long it would have survived if this era of 24/7 media criticism had existed in 2005? I'm glad we'll never find out.

[@theranter]

I hate to say it, but Doctor Who jumped the shark with the bi-generation thing. At that moment, I lost all interest in new Doctor Who, and I don’t like it. But I can’t even bring myself to bother to watch the new Doctor Who. The worst part was that suddenly there was this new thing that it never happened before, but the doctor instantly knew exactly what it was and how to deal with it and it was just nonsense.

[@klaxoncow]

I'm not so down on trying something different with the bi-generation - the show constantly renews itself, so why not try something different this time? But I have to agree with you - the Doctor(s) were instantly cool with it and knew exactly what it was and brushed it off 20 seconds later. Even if you're fine with the bi-generation concept, the execution was so off-hand and dismissive for something that uproots and changes established lore.

[@DrWhoFanJ]

Said no-one with a brain ever.

[@ItsArcticVision]

9:41 yeah, no. Let’s not have a marvel situation where they announce a crap ton of stuff before any pre production on them whatsoever has started. Give it time, and we’ll eventually have our full fledged whoniverse (hopefully 😅)

[@stevedoggart2805]

I wont lie , I absolutely hated the song n dance routines. The breaking of the 4th wall was non too sexy either. The House of Mouse kill everything they touch at the moment, I fear for the future of the Dr.

[@DrWhoFanJ]

Said no-one with a brain ever.

[@MichaelDuntz]

Gotta say I enjoyed Space Babies more than Boom.

[@x_Kiro_Fan_x]

I saw a deleted scene of the doctor saying to ruby in the devils chord “music will come flooding back into the universe” as a reason for “there’s always a twist” WHY DID THEY DELETE THAT, THAT SHORT SCENE WOULDVE FIXED THE ENDING OF THAT EPISODE

[@Jacx_DoctorWho]

Other great alternative series I watched this year (cos there's more than Doctor Who to the world): ~ SCI-FI ~ - The Expanse - Firefly - Foundation ~ Thriller ~ - Heroes (american series) - Severance - His Dark Materials ~ Animated ~ - The Owl House (Fantasy) - Amphibia (GOATED finales) (Fantasy - a bit darker than the Owl House) - Arcane (haven't finished this yet but I like it) ~ Detective/crime/murder ~ - Only Murders in the Building - Sherlock (Most DW fans have probably seen this already)

[@mykstand]

I agree with this list 100%. I'm honestly more excited about the Classic collections on Blu Ray, the colorized "The War Games" and missing animations. Disney and Who just don't seem to be a good match. And I say that as an American fan.

[@DrWhoFanJ]

colourised*, and stop talking gibberish.

[@LostInAScrapbook]

@@DrWhoFanJ💩💩

[@DrWhoFanJ]

@@LostInAScrapbookOP’s native language.

[@ZOLTAR436]

10:50 I imagined that happening instead of what we got, cause I liked what we got but the Beatles were under-used,so if anything Meastro should have been there to stop the Beatles making music as it reached many people so the finale battle should have been Ruby The doctor plus the Beatles vs Meastro to create a song powerful to banish Meastro. Jink monsoon would still give an amazing performance that way then we can spend time with the doctor and Ruby in that time period AND THEN we get more screen time from the Beatles

[@GSG02590]

Apart from 73 Yards it was all bad. 1) A horribly miscast Doctor who can't stop crying and not acting like the doctor. 2) Cringe inducing episodes with horrible CGI 3) Ruby's whole arc was pointless and really bad writing, Ruby's parent's were no-one special like Rey in Star Wars, expect Rey's grandfather was emperor Palpatine. RTD missed that bit huh.. 4) Hiring his woke TRA friends, aka men in drag and having one of them lecture the 14th Doctor. Solution? The BBC need to fire Gatwa and Davies and go back to basics.

[@jfrance649]

I agree with all of these. I hope the juke box doesn't turn out to be the custard cream dispenser from 13's era, remember that thing. It was shown in the second episode of her era and never seen again.

[@anotherperson2627]

I loved this season by far my favorite Doctor Who season, but the ending made me so mad. Beating Sutekh was waaaaaaaay too easy and the Ruby's mom reveal left a sour taste in my mouth

[@YoGurlShanilla]

Long story short......I thought Ruby's mother was going to be Rose....yes I know if Rose came back through our world it would cause a bad situation...They just made it so dramatic that the reveal of the mother was going to be someone we knew....and come on.......she looks like the doctors and Rose's daughter if they ever had a kid

[@DrWhoFanJ]

So Rose had a daughter the year before she met the Doctor (and somehow simultaneously many years afterwards), yet was perfectly fine with abandoning her one-year-old child‽ That makes no sense!

[@sbatty65227]

The BBC really needs to offload this now tat serial to the Yanks for good.

[@so1opiniao]

Again, if that Whoniverse intro was shown before every episode of DW or any spin off, it'd be really nice

[@cullenkarra9219]

Worst doctor who moment of 2024: 2024… damn shame too Ncuti could be amazing if he had ACTUAL doctor who writing.

[@B__C__]

Well, he does, but its fluctuates between early-21st century and the mid-1980s.

[@DrWhoFanJ]

Said no-one with a brain ever.

[@ShadowsFloating]

The crying!

[@danielmarr290]

I would also like to give a special mention to the death of William Russell and David Graham. Rest in peace you two legends! Your performances as Ian Chesterton and the Daleks will never be forgotten!

[@Flytrap]

We need more Torchwood.

[@klaxoncow]

Thanks to John Barrowman's indiscretions, it seems unlikely now that they could ever use Captain Jack again, unfortunately. And it's such a stupid reason too, as the accusation seems to have been that John thought it was funny to frequently flash his genitals on set. To just whip his dick out and then act like nothing had happened. Which he thought was a hilarious practical joke or something. I perfectly get why you have to "cancel" someone who kept doing that, as it's highly inappropriate - and it could still be taken as threatening behaviour, even modifying for the fact that he's a gay man - but it just seems such a silly and pointless thing to be cancelled over. On John's part, I hasten to add. As I think the BBC simply had no choice but to "cancel" him, once they received complaints (and he had been told to stop doing it - a formal warning - beforehand). Their hands were tied, as you can't just overlook something like that and do nothing (he was known for doing this, so I think they tried to ignore it for as long as possible, but once there are formal complaints, you can't dismiss them out of hand). But, yeah, no Captain Jack - and, therefore, likely no Torchwood (as he was not only the central character but an immortal central character, so you can't just kill off his character to explain his absence, even if you tried to carry on with a new lead) - because of a dumb "joke" that really isn't funny to anyone but Barrowman himself.

[@chesham121]

Only ten?🤪

[@hirudinaria]

Oh honey I think you will find that a tad difficult when every second of it competes for the worst place 😂😂

[@johna5635]

Let's remember the bits we want to forget????!

[@mareiramv]

So no video about Ncuti confirming season 3 and all of that stuff? Weird.

[@GSG02590]

As Ellie says in the video, The BBC and Disney are waiting to see the audience numbers for season 2 before deciding to do another. Gatwa mentioned season 3 filming on the Graham Norton show but the BBC edited that bit out implying that the deal with Disney is likely ending.

[@mareiramv]

@@GSG02590 if anything, I think that's another reason to talk about it. Great and important topic.

[@badwolf66]

Nothing like a top 10 worst moments video to brighten up your day. :P

[@matthewbelcher5389]

All of it, series was terrible and fans turned off lol

[@Bored_Barbarian]

6:52 good. We’ve had months delays before for previous seasons for us over here. You just need to wait 5 hours.

[@GSG02590]

It's a British show, foreigners shouldn't have access to it before us as British taxpayers pay for the BBC. The final season of Superman and Lois isn't even on BBC iPlayer yet and it ended weeks ago on the CW.

[@KristianDavies-tm3dv]

The tricksters theme

[@JJThompson3269]

It’s a great list Ellie! I was watching an RTD interview with BAFTA last night and he had referenced his time working with David and Nchuti but also made a promise to work with Eve Myles again 🙂 Torchwood reboot or link into the show or even a cameo in the War between the Land and the Sea?

[@DrWhoFanJ]

Ncuti*

[@JJThompson3269]

@ Sorry! I can’t believe I’ve always spelt his name wrong 😂

[@rebornitsybitsy7515]

Only 10? You are being generous

[@cinematic_gamer1]

Personally, I really hope that Doctor Who never works with Disney again. They've already ruined so many franchises.

[@DrWhoFanJ]

Said no-one with a brain ever.

[@treefrog101]

#5 As an American Whovian, it has and always will be awkwardly xenophobic to be able to watch a British show as early as 4pm while Britian is asleep. I am happy to wait a few hours more so the British can relish first in their own television show. 😂

[@nurimep]

The Tardis made Ruby important to get sutekh revealed😊

[@DpacOP]

3:33 we got to ask the real question is rose Alive an the other earth 😢

[@likecat7886]

8:21 Does that count as Ellie mentioning River Song... ,,The best character"? 😂

[@neilyb4590]

All of it it’s the worst it’s ever been utter rubbish totally unwatchable tripe

[@markduggan3451]

Don't forget the fact that there have only been about 7 episodes in a YEAR.

[@Bored_Barbarian]

11:10 yeah….that was so bad. Oof

[@sauvixcustoms]

As Ruby may have experienced dread in learning about her mother possibly being some kind of 'big cosmic thing', she could have ended up being the daughter of Incensor, the god of disaster, whose children are called Doubt and Dread. Maintaining the theme of the Pantheon.

[@mercuryman1250]

This 15th doctor run is just horrible.

[@DrWhoFanJ]

Said no-one with a brain ever.

[@Legendary3Dgamer]

Shut up

[@cameronmonaghan6883]

I hope that after The War Between The Land and Sea we get a series wrapping up the storylines of Class, Torchwood and the Sarah Jane Adventures. The spinoff characters are some of the most fleshed out that the franchise has had. Another issue I have had is the contradictive narrative Russell has had (e.g. saying the Screwdriver design change was to avoid children enjoyed guns, only for Morris Gibbons to have a turret in his segway) and how underutilised UNIT was in the finale. It's not a new problem but a reoccurring one I'd hoped would change.

[@adrianhead6272]

8 episodes, a Christmas special, and the travesty that was "Sutekh"... can't guess what nonsense you've come up with.

[@DrWhoFanJ]

Said no-one with a brain ever.

[@gestaltdude]

To be fair about the whole Whoniverse thing, it takes a very long time for anything to get done in show business. Every tv show and movies takes years from initial concept to broadcast to plan, fund, cast, find locations, organize hundreds of needed behind the scenes shenanigans, before it can be finally broadcast. This is why most animated shows such as The Simpsons avoid getting too topical, as by the time a script is written and produced the talking point is very old news. The only exception I know to this is South Park, due to its unique animation style. Plus, we all know how studious feel about franchises these days; they'll make plans for all sort of things, but will always wait to see how the first offering fares before giving any additional content the green light.

[@alexfletcher5192]

A great deal of the trouble with RTD 2 is what affected RTD1 - at least in the minds of fans: the 'Boosterism' of Russell T Davies. Because of his enthusiasm and his tendency to talk things up, which has served him well, many of the outcomes ultimately feel like a letdown. However, for those of us of a certain age, the fact that the franchise is even still around and vaguely continuous still feels like a Christmas miracle. I have to remind myself that this show was nearly killed off for good before I was even born. And I'm talking about the 1960s.

[@DJWhovian]

See I feel that the Ruby storyline is probably linked with Mrs Flood as though she has influenced the shaping of this story and that the resolution was instead a way to cover the reality.

[@enigmagenesis7341]

It's kind of embarrassing that there are 10 worst moments in such a short season.

[@DavRossTheWhovian]

No, leave the midnight thing. If you don't want to know what happens, don't it just shows how much people today leave their lives around social media.

[@Tularis]

I thought the bbc had full access to all the Beatles music......

[@GSG02590]

They don't. The Beatles back catalogue is owned 50% by Michael Jackson's estate and 50% by Sony.

[@jjwubs1638]

It's not the beatles broadcasting corporation, ya know ;)

[@DrWhoFanJ]

Only in the UK market, not for international use. That’s why any Classic stories that use it either replace it with other music (where it’s just in the background) or remove the scene entirely (when the song *is* the scene itself) on foreign releases.

[@mrspiderhead8794]

I disagree about Space Babies! I thought Empire Of Death was the worst episode of the series by a long way. It was just so packed full of anticlimax, plot holes, and borderline retcons that it was a bit of a non-episode. Also, the fact that Russell's neglect of past details meant that it killed off Rose and the metacrisis Doctor was low key unforgivable. At least space babies had a classic monster of the week vibe, plenty of (admittedly unearthed) chemistry between the Doctor and Ruby, and The Doctor gets to really show off a softer paternal side he hasn't shown much before. Lots to like.

[@DeusLucifer]

think you missed one the whole series

[@DrWhoFanJ]

Said no-one with a brain ever.

[@karenhenderson4546]

It's pretty sad there are 10 bad moments in one season.

[@PShawtx]

The whole of season 14 is the worst Doctor Who moment.

[@DrWhoFanJ]

Season 14 is one of the single most popular seasons of all time, with the most popular Doctor and two of the most popular companions.

[@concerned_citizen1857]

This isn't entirely relevant to this video, but lately, I've been thinking about who could replace Ncuti. I know he's still new. I look forward to a long tenure with him. However, if they ever go the woman route again, I think Hannah Waddingham would be a perfect 16th Doctor. Does anyone agree?