Doctor Who #151: Dragonfire

Doctor Who: "Dragonfire," 1987 (the final story of four from season twenty-four). An ice planet/grocery store has an evil mastermind and maybe a dragon.

Created by Sydney Newman, C.E. Webber & Donald Wilson. Directed by Chris Clough. Written by Ian Briggs. Starring Sylvester McCoy, Bonnie Langford & Sophie Aldred.

Concept: 1/4 (Bad)
Story: 0/4 (Terrible)
Characters: 1/4 (Bad)
Dialog: 1/4 (Bad). It has its moments, though.
Pacing: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Cinematography: 1/4 (Bad)
Special effects/design: 1/4 (Bad)
Acting: 1/4 (Bad)
Music: 0/4 (Terrible)
Subjective Rating: 3/10 (Bad, 1/4). Horrible, horrible writing. Despite a simple plot, nothing about it makes any sense. There are some attempts at humor, but they're pretty bad and I wasn't always sure if something was meant to be funny or if it was just funny asinine because it was such crap. McCoy is always clowning regardless of the intended tone of a scene, which makes it feel like he's just not taking the role seriously, rather than that the character is silly. Not that you can really blame him considering the scripts they were giving him.
Objective Rating (Average): 0.9/4 (Very bad)