Doctor Who: 10 Worst Twelfth Doctor Moments

10. Robin Hood And Robots

Robot of Sherwood began with The Doctor allowing Clara to choose to go anywhere she pleased. And of course the logically-minded schoolmarm chose late-medieval England so she could meet Robin Hood, who, for lack of a better word, is fictional.

Granted, the legend may have been loosely based on various anti-crown vigilantes named either Robert or Robin who existed between the 10th and 17th century. But sword/spoon fighting with a pseudo-fictional dandy wasn’t even this episode’s biggest sin. The true crime was not doing this historical episode justice.

In the past, episodes where The Doctor went back in time to rub elbows with the likes of Van Gogh, Charles Dickens, and Queen Victoria, were some of the show’s finest. Because whenever a historical figure showed up, The Doctor and his companion would dig deep not only into the person but also into his/her time period, resulting in a truly poignant and meaningful reason for disrupting the space time continuum.

Meeting Robin Hood, however, amounted to little more than low-stakes adventure story. And Robin himself behaved eerily like the 11th Doctor acting as a sort of placeholder giving Clara more time to get used to her new, more crotchety Doctor.