YMMV / Doctor Who S28 E11 "Fear Her"

• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The Doctor really did carry the Olympic Torch... Matt Smith ran with it in 2012.
  • Huw Edwards provides commentary for the London 2012 Opening Ceremony. He would do so again for the actual Opening Ceremony.
  • Rose notices ads for singer Shayne Ward doing a "greatest hits tour". At the time the episode was filmed, he was best known as the winner of the second series of The X Factor. By the real 2012, he was becoming more known for acting, and is now best known for his role on Coronation Street.
• It's Not Supposed to Win Oscars: When addressing the episode's negative reception, Matthew Graham had this to say:
  It was only later that I realized that the older fans had reacted badly to it, so I went, 'Well, it's a shame that they have, but it wasn't meant for them.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Alien child or no, the Isolus can be very hard to sympathize with. The narrative clearly hypes it up to be a lost kid with no proper guidance who is desperate for companionship, and it expects us to feel pathos for it. The episode tries to make the Isolus' feelings toward its human child host out to be a genuine if one-sided sense of kinship and love on the Isolus' end, whilst doing nothing to address the implications that the Isolus has been using the animated, monstrous drawing of Chloe's Abusive Dad to threaten her into being compliant, making the Isolus guilty of full-blown fantastic domestic abuse for which it expresses no shame. Even when the Isolus leaves Chloe's body, its expression of loving farewell to her is undermined by the fact that it doesn't give a shit that it's leaving Chloe and her mother at the mercy of the loosed drawing of Chloe's father. It doesn't help that the Isolus and the possessed Chloe conduct theirself like an entitled brat the moment they don't get their own way, nor that they do everything in their power to obstruct Rose and the Doctor's actual efforts to help the Isolus reunite with its mother and siblings, making the Isolus come off as an Easily Forgiven Karma Houdini when the Doctor sends it home at the end.

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