20 Worst Moments In Modern Doctor Who
8. Thumb Sucking (Orphan 55)
While everyone else is running round saving the day after things kick off at Tranquility Spa, Ryan is hiding under a table... sucking his thumb. Which apparently stops hallucinations brought on by the Hopper virus. Ok then.
As luck would have it, he meets fellow thumb-sucker Bella, and the two "bond" over the course of the episode. Ryan is ultimately forced to leave Bella behind after she chooses to stay with her estranged mother and fight off the Dregs, which could have been a tender goodbye – had Bella not decided to signal it by shoving her thumb in her mouth.
It's a laughable attempt at forcing a meaningful emotional moment with some dramatic music and lingering close-ups. These characters have no real chemistry and they're both just stood there sucking their thumbs like a pair of babies during the big action climax.
All it’s missing is for someone to yell BENNNNIIIII in the background, and the Razzies would be flowing in.