8 Doctor Who Episodes Ruined By Their Endings

8. Can You Hear Me?

Series 12's Can You Hear Me? introduced a pair of villains who rank among the most powerful in Doctor Who lore.

Eternals who've been kicking around for millennia, Zellin and Rakaya are basically gods, and to them, humans are nothing more than ants beneath their feet. Their powers are immense: they can move throughout time and space, teleport inside the TARDIS, induce nightmares in their victims, and destroy planets for a bit of fun.

Basically, they're unbelievably strong and nearly impossible to defeat, which the episode makes clear on numerous occasions - but for some reason, they didn't get the ending that their skillset would seem to warrant.

In a noticeably rushed conclusion, the Doctor dispatches not just one of them, but both of them in 90 seconds flat, without the two villains putting up much of a fight. Perhaps realising that Zellin and Rakaya were too powerful, it feels like the writers nerfed them in order to wrap the story up on time, sucking all the energy out of what should have been an epic final showdown.

The episode was all twisty and trippy up until this point too, one of the more unique episodes of the Whittaker era - so it's a shame that it fumbled the ending.