Well I've done my favourites so now it's time for the opposite side of the spectrum. again remember I haven't yet seen all stories so these could potentially change. Anyway welcome to... my least favourite classic stories!... 5) Trial of a time lord: The ultimate foe. What the heck was this? After the previous 3 instalments to the trial of a time lord series which weren't perfect but weren't bad ether we get this. Everything is just thrown out of the window, one minute we have the valeyard is a future doctor, then we have the master then we have being eaten by sand then we have going into the dream factory (which I may add is obviously a cheap knock off from The deadly assassin) and to top it all off we have the sixth doctor being reduced to childish name calling throughout the whole trial of a time lord (the 'scrapyard', I mean come on) Overall the whole thing is just one big mess. 4) Warriors of the deep. The reason I hate the 5th doctor era is because of the predominately 80's style of everything! Even if the story is set 1000 years in the future we still have a bunch of camp 80's people looking ghastly. This is why this story kind of sums up why I hate the 5th doctor era. Although the plot is quite good, the costumes, set's, effects and directing just fail the plot. Creating a bit of a bore-fest. And the mighty Silurains we saw in the 3rd doctor era are reduced to embarrassing shadows of what they once were... 3) The ambassadors of death. Now this one always causes conflict. Season 7 (Spearhead from space, The Silurians, The ambassadors of death and Inferno) is repeatedly called the greatest season in the whole of doctor who. For me I wouldn't call it my favourite. They are all pretty average stories for me (apart from the amazing Inferno!). The ambassadors of death just doesn't keep me interested for long enough, I usually only get to part 4 then fall asleep or turn it off, which is a shame because part 5,6 and 7 are all great but the first parts are just torture! 2) The Sensorites. Now don't get me wrong, part 1 and it's cliff hanger are quite good but then it just goes downhill from there... The plot just doesn't go anywhere and just takes ages to get to the small amount of action there is. The Sensorite costumes are pretty naff (although the head's aren't too bad) and finally the script and plot is just boring, the whole 6 episodes could have easily been put into a pretty interesting 2 parts. 1) Terminus (or ‘Terminally Boring’). Complete and utter crap! A total and utter embarrassment to the doctor who world. The whole thing is total rubbish with no logic and a crappy writer who won't even acknowledge what an embarrassment it is. I can't even put into words how bad it is therefore I'll leave you with I 'overheard someone telling their friend that Terminus was the best example of horror fiction he’d seen in the last 10 years.' This quote is from the writer in the DVD extras. If this doesn't show how deluded he is, I don't know what will. Sorry if these are anyone's favourite story, but I just hate them. Of course even though I dislike them, I won't forget the hard work (apart from Terminus) that went into them. Some of these problems that I mentioned were maybe unavoidable or a low budget therefore we can think that at least they tried... (apart from Terminus :P)
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Handbot10
12/4/2014 03:34:54 pm
Terminally Boring! Ha ha ha ha! 100% agreed!
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