3. All Of "Love and Monsters"
Let me be perfectly clear on one point. I adore "Love and Monsters." I love it into tiny little pieces. This story gets a fair share of flack from a lot of fandom, and while I kind of understand some of it, a lot of it is just simply boneheaded. Yes, the Absorbalof is on the cheesy side. Yes, I agree, they probably would have done better to lose the sex with a paving slab joke at the end. However neither of those things are remotely the point of the episode. Or rather, the fact that they jar tonally with what we expect Doctor Who to feel like
is the point of the episode. Take for example the blatantly Scooby-Doo chase scene. What people who complain about this scene tend to miss is that it's presented that way because
that's how Elton saw it. That's his frame of reference, and in that he's the one telling us the entire episode, of course it feels different. And if you're one of the people who dismissed this episode as 'not being Doctor Who', as if Doctor Who was
in any way about having to be one specific thing with everything else being 'wrong', then you have spectacularly missed the point of the last 50 years of stories. All of the tonal strangeness here exists for one reason. To get to this moment- "When you're a kid, they tell you it's all... grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better."