20 Worst Moments In Modern Doctor Who

The climax of Legend of the Sea Devils is a confusing mess and basically the whole episode could go on this list, but if I have to pick one moment, it’s the ‘thrilling’ sword fight that happens near the end.

And yes, ‘thrilling’ is in quotes.

Choppily edited, badly directed and confusing as hell, it’s a neat summation of the episode itself, which, to be fair, was a bit of a rush job as we were coming out of the pandemic, which no doubt impacted production. Oh, and it was also written in basically three days, which, I mean… you can tell!

This should’ve been a grand, epic return for the Sea Devils after decades away, and this sequence should’ve been awesome. But it wasn’t. And what makes it extra rubbish is the painfully obvious ADR’d line from the Doctor "Don’t let the swords touch your skin!"

Really? Gee, thanks for that Doc, I was totally gonna let them whack me before you said something! Frankly it’s a relief when Ji-Hun finishes off that Sea Devil on the floor, as it meant we didn’t have to watch any more of this scene, and the episode itself was over quicker.