10 Doctor Who Stories With WORSE Endings Than Flux
7. Resurrection of the Daleks (1984)
Davros has been freed! The Daleks are duplicating various prominent Earth figures! They plan to clone the Doctor and send him to destroy Gallifrey!
A lot of people have balked at the idea of the Doctor cheerily allowing the Sontarans, Cybermen and Daleks to perish in the Flux. It's likely that those same people were cheering Peter Davison on as he gassed a bunch of Daleks to death back in the 1980s! Resurrection of the Daleks is a mess. For a story that plays out across two locations - a spaceship and warehouse - there is a lot going on.
Davros' plot to avenge himself against his own creations, the Daleks' plot to clone the Doctor to assassinate the High Council of Gallifrey, the Daleks' plot to take over the Earth with clones of prominent politicians.
Frustratingly, none of these plot strands tie together in any meaningful way. There's an underlying interrogation of whether the Doctor will stoop to the level of Davros to defeat the Daleks but it's brushed off at the end with a "perhaps it's time I change my ways" that doesn't pay off in Davison's final two stories. And even then, his resolve to change his behaviour is only brought about by his companion's revulsion at the death and destruction wrought across the story, rather than the death and destruction itself.
If the Doctor doesn't care about all the people that have died due to his conflict with the Daleks and Davros, why should we?