What Doctor Who moments have been a bit too dark for you?

[Gingerbread Demon]

For me Bill Potts conversion
Adelaide Brook committing suicide

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[Timofnine]

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[Gingerbread Demon]

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Oh yeah........ That was great, Also 11 in "Smile" was a bit dark.

Frankly a full series of the Doctor being dark would be awesome.

 

[kirk55555]

Love & Monsters

A woman is sentenced to Eternity as a face in a brick, with implied sexual stuff going on between her and her boyfriend, basically making her an immortal living sex toy. The fact that this is the end of an episode all about a stupid monster designed by a literal child IRL is hilarious, but the actual ending is really messed up if you think about it for literally 1 second.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Love & Monsters

A woman is sentenced to Eternity as a face in a brick, with implied sexual stuff going on between her and her boyfriend, basically making her an immortal living sex toy. The fact that this is the end of an episode all about a stupid monster designed by a literal child IRL is hilarious, but the actual ending is really messed up if you think about it for literally 1 second.

That ending is fucking dark.... It would be torture for eternity for her

 

[Saul]

'Death in Heaven' is extremely tasteless. They turned those buried at graveyards into Cybermen and at the end included Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart among those people. It's disrespectful and offensive. And they even had the audacity to call it a tribute. I felt sorry for little kids who watched this episode and were left with the imagery in their minds of Cybermen crawling out of graves.

 

[Starkers]

I suspect most kids were fine with it and it was the adults who were traumatised!

 

[The Nth Doctor]

'Death in Heaven' is extremely tasteless. They turned those buried at graveyards into Cybermen and at the end included Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart among those people. It's disrespectful and offensive. And they even had the audacity to call it a tribute.

Yup, I really loathed that. I love Moffat's writing usually, even some of his odder choices, but he seriously misstepped here.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Yes the only thing I hated about the story was having the Brigadier resurrected as a Cyberman. That was insulting

 

[N-121973]

Horror of Fang Rock, Warriors of the Deep & Resurrection of the Daleks because of the extremely high body counts (the Doctor and his companion(s) were the only survivors in the first two and the only sympathetic characters to survive in the third). Plus with Resurrection you also had scenes of mutilation and those two creepy police officers killing people.

 

[diankra]

Horror of Fang Rock, Warriors of the Deep & Resurrection of the Daleks because of the extremely high body counts (the Doctor and his companion(s) were the only survivors in the first two and the only sympathetic characters to survive in the third). Plus with Resurrection you also had scenes of mutilation and those two creepy police officers killing people.

Actually Bulic survives Warriors. But left alone, and then having to explain what happened...

 

[TimmyWl]

The bit about the Monks (?) and how 12 basically faked his own death in front of Bill. I actually never saw the ending of that episode because of that. The one with Old Amy was also a bit dark.

 

[publiusr]

The goriest scene was Lytton having his hands crushed by the Earthshock era Cybermen.

 

[Pindar]

The end of Waters of Mars when Adelaide kills herself is pretty dark.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

The end of Waters of Mars when Adelaide kills herself is pretty dark.

It is really, but then it still inspires her daughter into space somehow...

 

[Qonundrum]

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The show's always had sinister and dark moments. Always will. Even Classic Who has had some truly sinister moments; not just a villain that needs to survive in cold temperatures cooking himself via direct sunlight out of abject angst mixed with boredom because it's the only original thing in a story that's a bad mixture of Superman and Aliens (Dragonfire). Then Mel leaves with Glitz for no reason as well... Delta and the Bannermen camps it up in an attempt to hide very disturbing material (actively committing genocide)... Paradise Towers shows devolution... The Happiness Patrol kills anyone who isn't happy, and given how trashy their society is they're forced to be happy. There's some neat psychological horror right there...

Was surprised they included any from the original series' run, actually...

Was even more surprised they didn't show what the Doctor was going to do to Ian and Barbara, dumping them in prehistoric Earth to rot in order to prevent humans from spreading the word that so many technological concepts are possible - all that puts Kane's poorly-scribbled suicide to shame. They'd probably take the scene out of context, which has been done to death already by the likes of taking Lon's outfit out of context (which leads to a bigger issue that I won't mention), the newly regenerated Doctor - where it was spelled out in the very previous episode how the process felt different - had mental instability and tried to kill his companion under temporary insanity (it is a poorly scripted story and I wish Eric Saward penned it instead of having to take over for part three onward), how the Doctor was not pushing anyone into the acid bath (but people still take that scene out of context as well despite it being plain on screen that it was the other henchman pulling his partner into it while believing it to be the Doctor.)

Or how the fourth Doctor wields a gun at point blank range, punches nice uppercuts, and a slew of other antics... "The Faceless Ones" has the 2nd Doctor putting out quite some nice death threats at the villains that's all but genocidal, too. (Never mind what Seven does to Davros and the Daleks, and the Cybermen in that one's cut'n'paste plot...) But it's amazing how much classic Who was taken out of context; it's as if those video makers never watched the actual stories in question.

 

[Qonundrum]

The goriest scene was Lytton having his hands crushed by the Earthshock era Cybermen.

Physical gore, but it didn't feel gratuitous. Something "Varos" had done, and even that story got accolades by the BBC. Definitely didn't feel cartoony, either. Combining the hands with the post-transformation we'd seen in modern Who series 2 where they actually show some mental remnants (though crying motor oil started getting over the top) and - voila - the Cybermen really can be more frightening than the Daleks, for which it's always a triumph when an episode makes conscious efforts to make the terrifying (e.g. The Daleks, The Power of the Daleks, Dalek, Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways, Chibnall's stories, et al.) Not bad for a supposedly second-fiddle monster created because the Daleks were originally going to America (but returned for Pertwee because the deal fell through, and how does one make a successful show out of villains that look like art deco cleaning machines with kitchen utensils glued on? Well, the whole visage definitely rises above the sum of its parts...)