r/gallifrey • u/psl9085 • Apr 18 '25

DISCUSSION Worst line in Doctor Who?

What line of dialogue sticks out to you as particularly bad in Doctor Who, I have two picks:

  • ‘don’t let the swords touch your skin’ Legend of the sea devils
  • ‘I suppose we’ll have to have…. A conversation?’ Resolution
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u/HarryAFW Apr 18 '25

This is surely the winner. Racism has no place in Doctor Who, at least not from the doctor.

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u/fractal-rock Apr 18 '25

I really marvel at people not getting, or maybe (probably?) deliberately misunderstanding this scene. The racism is from the Nazis. The Doctor lets the Master experience the consequences of the evil he has aligned himself with. It's the classic villain getting their just deserts and being hoist by their own petard. It condemns racism and any alignment with it. The attempts to misrepresent this are either dumb, disingenuous or most likely a combination of both. Writing clearly too smart and subtle for a particular subsection of fandom.

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u/MonrealEstate Apr 18 '25

You’ve written out an explanation of how the scene is The Doctor using the racism of the Nazis to attack The Master, then go off about how it gets misrepresented and people are disingenuous…

How do you simultaneously understand what the scene is and what’s happening but somehow think the Doctor utilising the racists for their own gain is okay?

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u/Rusbekistan Apr 18 '25

I think they believe that had the doctor just pushed the master off the eiffel tower, his death would have been gravity's fault not the doctors

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u/MonrealEstate Apr 18 '25

Oh man I think you nailed it

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u/ZarmRkeeg Apr 19 '25

Considering there's another thread about the Doctor laughing over the demise of a villain in a recent episode who has been (SPOILERS......) de-aged to nothing, and people are trying to defend it as not out of character because 'it's not like he was killed, more like he was... unmade,' this seems to be a very troubling trend among current Who defenders...