10 Doctor Who Endings That Get Worse The More You Think About Them

Any companion who travels with the Doctor should be able to prove they can stand without them, and they’re not just along for the ride. But it can be a fine line to toe. This works best in a scenario where the Doctor is unable to help and the companion has to rise to the occasion to save the day, much like Last of the Time Lords. It’s somewhat less effective when the Doctor just abandons his best friend because he doesn’t really feel like helping out that time.

While this does lead to the fantastic scene where Clara gives Twelve a good dressing-down about the trauma he put her through, you can’t help but feel it destroys a bit of our faith in the Doctor along with Clara’s. He’s meant to be our hero that will always have our back, but now we can’t help but look at him and wonder if it’s all just a big game to him.

But that’s not the worst bit, and honestly it’s not even that bad compared to what comes next, when the Doctor casually mentions: “The moon is an egg.” Insert a Tenth Doctor “WHAT” triple-whammy right here.

So every time we’ve seen the moon before this, it was an egg? When we see the werewolf transformation in Tooth and Claw, that was the doing… of an egg. In Smith and Jones, all those people who got transported to the moon, were in fact having a breakdown on the shell of a giant egg. And the entire climax of Day of the Moon centres around Neil Armstrong walking on a great big egg?

It’s strange and weird and every other synonym you can think of, stretching Doctor Who’s pseudo-science to its breaking point and making you not even want to think about the rest of the episode, let alone rewatch it.