Handman said:
While it’s true Tennant had some awful stuff (Rose romance, “I don’t wanna go” especially), I don’t recall the worst stuff being as bad as, say, “Kill the Moon”, “Robot of Sherwood”, or that viking episode that had an evil lion show up in the last 20 minutes and derail a character study. Clara was especially mishandled, she was given a few good farewells but kept coming back only to leave with a whimper.

Robot of Sherwood was okay for a comedy. But it was typical mediocre material of Gatiss. He did Idiot’s Lantern for Tennant, which I would say is on par with or worse quality than Sherwood. He did Victory of the Daleks which was the worst episode in a mostly fantastic Series 5. And he did the eye booger one for Capaldi which was quite bad. I liked his Ice warriors episode this series.

I agree that The Girl Who Died went a bit off the rails. Some enjoyable parts, and I liked the ending. But it was a letdown after Mathieson wrote the two best episodes the prior Series.

I was definitely disappointed in Kill the Moon. As a scientist, I actually normally really like bad science in sci-fi. Sometimes more than attempts at real science that are poorly executed. But this one went too far at the end, to the point where I had to roll my eyes. The original Ice Warriors is another Who that has science that is really just bad. However, I loved both of Harness’s other stories (the Zygon two parter and the Pyramid one). Kill the Moon didn’t quite work the way the problem was handed off to the humans at the end. But looking at it as a sort of trilogy, where it always comes down to the same kind of responsibility/decision theme, but with different outcomes, it’s a bit more enjoyable for me.

Anyway, I’ll take any of those over Fear Her.