16. A Gigantic CyberKing Invading London... And No One Remembering It
Things went from bad to worse for the Tenth Doctor in his 2008 Christmas escapade The Next Doctor when the scheming Mercy Hartigan forced orphans to build a gigantic CyberKing who proceeded to rise from the Thames and stomp its way over London. Seriously. WTF?! To make matters even worse and more nonsensical, nobody even remembers that it happened and it was later revealed, in Series 5, that the whole thing was sucked into one of the cracks of the universe and subsequently wiped from existence. Basically the Moff's way of saying, "That was all rather crap, wasn't it?". Tell us what you really think, Steven...
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.
