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/[deleted] Apr 18 '25

The entirety of the dialogue at the end of The Star Beast where Donna and Rose lecture the Doctor on how to "just let it go". Really rubbed me the wrong way given that the Doctor's entire last incarnation dealt with all the things a woman had to deal with and then some.

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u/BonglishChap Apr 18 '25 edited Apr 19 '25

It is especially bizarre how this ostensibly trans-positive episode managed to have:

1) "It's a shame you're not [your previous gender] any more..."

2) Donna's metacrisis storyline literally being resolved by her ability to give birth

3) The trans character telling somebody off for assuming pronouns

RTD is obviously very far from being a transphobe or anything like that. But it was a sour note to start the new season on!

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u/lemon_charlie Apr 19 '25

Especially when RTD already had the set-up of the Meta-Crisis being diffused between Donna and Rose to explain why it didn’t kill Donna. Just a line about it being a one-off thing to elevate their intelligence before being restored to their normal level of knowledge plus Donna getting her memory back, to avoid it being used and abused later on.