The second half of season 7 of Doctor Who is finally on HULU Plus (go ahead, run off to watch them all, I'll wait patiently for you to return) so I've been marathoning them with my hubby. The last episode we watched was Hide, which I had really been looking forward to. I'm a huge fan of the horror genre, despite them giving me nightmares. So the idea of a scary Doctor Who episode was almost more than I could take! And the episode delivered....until the last 5 minutes retconned all of the scariness and made it some weird trans-dimensional love story. Seriously, they took this amazingly creepy monster and made it some lovesick alien just trying to get to it's mate.
I didn't grow up with what we now refer to as Classic Doctor Who, but I've read story after story about people watching it from behind the couch. How scary the Daleks were, or the nightmares the Cybermen use to give them. New Who (the rebooted series, so 9th Doctor forward) just doesn't deliver on the scare factor. Or when it does they go back and make it all OK and full of rainbows and sunshine and happy faces. What happened to that darker element? Nobody is hiding behind a couch anymore, hell I let my toddler watch it with me. There are still emotionally heartbreaking episodes (Doomsday still makes me cry like a baby, and don't even ask me about Donna unless you have 4 hours and a box of Kleenex), and plenty of hilarious ones, but the horror genre is sadly missing.
Is there a scary episode that still makes you dive under the covers no matter how many times you've seen it?
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