When Doctor Who was rebooted in 2005, one of the biggest changes was in the production value. Gone were the days of tinfoil aliens and countless alien planets that looked like Welsh quarries; now, Doctor Who aliens could be impressive and CGI. However, no show is without its budgetary and scheduling issues, so Doctor Who started the age-old tradition of episodes that were glaringly made in an attempt to save money, like “Vincent and the Doctor,” which handily had its monster be invisible for the majority of scenes, or “Midnight,” set entirely on a plane with no visible monster at all.
Surprisingly, a lot of these go down in history as some of the show’s best. But in 2006, one of these episodes gained a reputation among the fandom for being one of the most bland, formulaic, and visibly cheap episodes of the series entirely. 20 years later, does that label still stand? It depends on how you look at it.
