10 Doctor Who Stories With WORSE Endings Than Flux

The Master has destroyed a large chunk of the universe, but the entropy wave is out of control. The Doctor must make a deal with the devil to save the day.

They did Tom Baker dirty. The final story for this beloved Doctor is a po-faced, near impenetrable slog with some fascinating tonal choices and a few stand-out moments for our departing leading man. The lack of occasion, and haste to get Tom out the door is not the reason that Logopolis' ending is worse. It's the lack of consequences to events that are more egregious than anything in Flux.

Both stories are very similar. Universe-ending stakes. Someone sinister from the Doctor's past at the controls. A stuffed TARDIS. And yet, what makes Logopolis' end of the universe worse than Flux's is that we have a character who is directly affected by the destruction.

We're not talking about Vinder and Bel, separated by events. We're talking about the orphaned Nyssa of Traken, who watches her home planet get completely destroyed by the Master in the third episode of this four-parter. The level of upset portrayed is akin to someone who's lost their favourite skirt rather than of someone who's lost their home and family.

It doesn't get any better in the fourth episode as the focus shifts to the Doctor and the Master's climactic battle atop the telescope and then it's barely mentioned again. Hopefully, the aftermath of the Flux event is better handled!