4. The Moon Is An Egg
Yup. They really went there. The events of Doctor Who can be pretty barbaric at times, and for that its fans are eternally grateful, but one of its storylines in Series 8 well and truly took the biscuit. The episode in question, in case you hadn't guessed already, is Kill the Moon which only really ended up killing the mood and putting lots of confused viewers in a very angry one in the process. In case a story set on the lunar surface involving a mining base full of corpses and vicious spider like creatures wasn't outlandish enough, at the end of the episode it's revealed that the moon is actually an alien itself - an alien egg, to be precise. An alien dragon egg to be even more so. Seriously. Just when you thought Doctor Who had reached its nonsensical peak they go and throw this spanner into the works. Of course Doctor Who doesn't make sense but up to this point it had all made perfect sense, relativity speaking and in a timey-wimey sort of way, within the realms of the universe it's created for itself. This was just plain weird. So, fans can accept that the Doctor is a 2,000 year old Time Lord with two hearts but the show suggesting that planet Earth is being orbited by a giant dragon egg which hatches into a replica of itself and causes natural disasters is apparently one step too far. If they were looking for the line, they've well and truly found it. The Robin Hood thing doesn't sound so far fetched now, does it?
Dan Butler
Doctor Who Editor
Dan Butler is the Doctor Who Editor at WhatCulture.com. When he isn't writing his own articles or editing other people's, he can be found trawling the internet for gifs of Steven Moffat laughing. Contact him via dan.butler@whatculture.co.uk.
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