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Review of Love & Monsters by WhoPotterVian

9 June 2024

This review was written on April Fools Day 2016, as I decided this is the one Doctor Who episode that feels the most like an April Fools joke. Yes, that's right: Love & Monsters.

 

Love & Monsters is quite simply an abomination in every sense of the word. The premise is about a Doctor fan group called L.I.N.D.A. (London Investigation 'n' Detective Agency) led by Elton Pope (Marc Warren) who seek to track down the Doctor and Rose because they're rabid fanboys. If that sounds incredibly meta, that's because it is. The only difference here is that the fans are bland; nothing like the exciting characters you get in real-life fandom.

 

It only gets worse when Peter Kay comes in as Victor Kennedy. To be fair to him, he's not too bad at first but when he becomes the Abzorbaloff he is laughably terrible in the role. As I said previously, Peter Kay would have been better playing a fan like Malcolm in Planet of the Dead as opposed to a cheesy monster invented by a kid.

 

Who's idiotic idea was it to let a kid design a monster for the series?

 

There's a reason why 10 year olds don't work as costume designers!

 

Yet there's something far, far worse than all this. It's hinted that Elton Pope, the guy who is supposed to be our substitute for the Doctor, has sex with a paving slab.

 

Overall, Love & Monsters is without a doubt the worst Doctor Who episode of all time.

Review created on 9-06-24