20 Worst Moments In Modern Doctor Who

It’s an open secret why the closing scenes of Steven Berkoff in The Power of Three are so poorly put together. The actor was allegedly so difficult to work with that an alternate resolution to the plot had to be scrambled together at the last minute, and that resolution left a lot to be desired.

The Shakri (played by Berkoff) suddenly disappears, the Doctor waves his sonic a bit, everyone looks slightly concerned, they jump through a hole and it ends. Erm, what just happened? And why did it happen?

Throw in some blatantly obvious close-up inserts of Matt Smith and Karen Gillan against a green screen, and the scene is so chaotic that it's hard to follow exactly what you're watching.

We also never actually see any of the cubes defibrillate anyone back to life – there's no tension, no build-up, nothing. It all just amounts to the Doctor waving his sonic at a sci-fi TV screen and saving the day.

Now to be fair that’s roughly 93% of Doctor Who resolutions, but this one was clunkier than most.