Worst episode ever? Why Space Babies doomed Doctor Who
“Space Babies was at the extreme end of light and fluffy,” says Rob Irwin, co-host of The Doctor Who Podcast. “To be running around a spaceship with some babies and a ‘snot monster’ – who was really just misunderstood [he was revealed to be a pet] – put some fans off from the start.”
Many never returned. Ratings for Davies’s second tilt at Who have nose-dived ever since
So sharp has been the spiral – down 800,000 on 2024 and two million fewer than the not-especially-loved Jodie Whittaker era
But for sheer silliness Space Babies nonetheless took the interstellar biscuit – and a backlash against it has been building among the fanbase ever since, to the point where the episode arguably threatens to overshadow the entirety of the Gatwa era.
The hope was that this new era was going to fix all the issues and bring back Doctor Who. But what we got was Space Babies. That is what broke people’s hearts.”
Go woke, go broke
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