Doctor Who: Every Doctor's WORST Episode

TREES!

While Series 8 has some highlights and is a big improvement on Series 7, it's still a mixed bag. For every Listen or Deep Breath, there's a frustrating episode like In The Forest of The Night. 

Written by accomplished screenwriter Frank Cottrell-Boyce, its ham-fisted environmental message is a perfect example of what happens when you sacrifice plot for the sake of a moral lesson, even if that lesson is a valuable one. It doesn't hold up to a lick of scrutiny, and the threat to the Earth doesn't even feel real, partly due to the fact that we're two weeks away from the series finale!

And then there's the kids, the tedious rivalry between the Doctor and Danny Pink, and a strange subplot involving a missing teenager hiding in a bush.

Aside from a beautifully-directed TARDIS scene and some striking imagery of London under a sprawling green canopy, the story itself doesn't amount to much. In fact, it's so forgettable that – according to the Doctor – even the characters are destined to eventually forget the events of the story.