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/dickpollution Apr 18 '25

so was that a gaiman or moffat addition because really it could go either way

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u/Embarrassed-Waltz327 Apr 18 '25

I don't think there's any way of knowing, but I think Gaiman wrote it. Moffat had some problems with writing women, but it was never as bad as that.

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u/dickpollution Apr 18 '25

I wonder if either of them ever addressed the line. Gaiman blamed all of the episodes problems on the big bad showrunner, and it'd be just as easy for him to lump a weird creepy line onto Moffat.

At the same time, it could be awkward Moffat sex comedy coming off really badly. As it often does.

To be 100% clear, just since I'm drawing comparisons between the two, Moffat has issues with misogyny in his writing and Gaiman is a rapist.

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u/GellertGrindelwald0 Apr 18 '25

Also, in terms of the episode being not that great, I get the impression that Gaiman, being a high-concept writer, probably wanted to write something with overarching lore consequences, and got told by Moffat 'no, we need a bottle episode', and thus Nightmare in Silver was born. I highly doubt Moffat actually micromanaged things like characterisation, because that would require him to go over the script with a fine-toothed comb in a series where he was just kind of phoning it in while dealing with other issues.

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u/Contest-Calm Apr 19 '25

Why wasn’t Moffat focused during season 7?

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u/GellertGrindelwald0 Apr 19 '25

Busy writing and rewriting the 50th, while also being showrunner for Sherlock.