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

It says a lot about how well the Cybermen were used in the Eleventh Doctor’s era that their greatest appearance was as an arm on the floor.

Outside of turning them into super-speedy Iron Man knock-offs, their biggest indignity came during the climax of Closing Time, where they were defeated by the immense power of… a crying baby. And no we’re not talking about James Corden.

Who knew that all it took to overcome Cyber-conversion was hearing your kid be upset? This terrifying process that strips you of all feeling and emotion, turning you into a cold killing machine trapped in a metal body, can all be avoided if you simply just don’t really feel like it.

Reducing one of the Doctor’s oldest and most iconic enemies to this, getting beaten by the power of love, was incredibly cheap and just really damn frustrating.

Thematically it makes sense as a moment where Craig overcomes his fears of not being a good enough dad and rises to the occasion, but this is a perfect example of why story logic should always trump emotional logic, because all you’ve done is damage the Cybermen, and nobody really likes this episode anyway!

And don’t even get me started on Eleven screaming “Daddy’s coming home…”