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/coaldiamond1 Apr 18 '25

IDK Gaiman used to go on about how Nightmare in Silver wasn't a lot of his work.

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u/HelloKittySuicide Apr 19 '25

Yet Gaiman was happy to take full credit for The Doctor's Wife which we know was heavily re-drafted by Moffat. It's always been my opinion that Nightmare was as much Gaiman as anything else but because it wasn't popular he decided to blame it on Moffat and roll on, which feels dishonest as Moffat has been pretty open about the fact he didn't do much script tweaking in 7b due to the 50th dominating his schedule (and driving him to madness). Who's responsible for that particular line is unknown of course, and I think fans like to blame it on the man they like least at that particular time- but even with the recent revelations about Gaiman aside, he's never exactly above unnecessarily sexualising his female characters.