Story you love, that everyone else seems to hate

And the accents. The cabin full of people in silver parkas and orange goggles like mutant Omopa Loompas.

And on the not so camp side there's the genuinely interesting idea of two ships fusing, not to mention the CET Machine, which not only stores actual samples of the ecology of different worlds, but can also be interacted with.

And K9 manages to get something of a character story for himself, overcoming his fear of the distortion. I think what really hurt it more than anything was the direction. Imagine if it'd been a part of the Hinchcliffe era, Romana would have gotten her own "So you see, I'm not going to let you stop me now!" moment with Fisk holding her at gunpoint, the Mandrel attack on the passengers while the captain laughs could have been horrific, the Doctor's quiet rage at "the profits of human suffering", etc.

I was about to post the exact same thing.

I'll throw my hat in the Timelash-is-okay pile. I've watched it again recently and I see its many flaws but can shrug them off. I've seen worse - it's certainly not boring.

And honestly it's the twins plot of Twin Dilemma that takes me out of it. Colin's stuff is all fine. He's obviously being directed to play the character far too big but the man sells it.

For love but hate though, people really hate Let's Kill Hitler. It might actually be my favourite Eleventh Doctor story. I get the problems with it but the frenetic madcap pace is perfect, the idea of the Teselecta is inspired and some of the lines are pure gold. And overall it's just fun.

For books, I don't think Spiral Scratch has a great rep (its first 50 or so pages were rated the worst part of the year by some Who fans I believe?) but I loved it - just so twisty and dense with internal continuity.

Also, I've less love for it, but Divided Loyalties also landed way better for me than for others - especially the Gallifrey section that some people hate so much they refuse to accept it as canon. My reasons for not loving it are more about a quick, weakish ending and a lot of filler, rather than messing with the Doctor's past.

As for audios, I relistened to The Maltese Penguin the other day. I think it's a charming little romp. Not the best thing BF has ever produced but Frobisher is so often said to have "one brilliant audio and one rubbish one".

constonks I didn't realize Maltese Penguin was hated I really enjoyed it. Okay it's not The Holy Terror but it's a loving parody of film
Noir and as a Film Noir fan it's a lot of fun. And the idea of Frobisher and the 6th Doctor in a Noir is so ridiculous it cracks me up (at least Frobisher is in black & white well except when he is playing the 6th Doctor lol)

It's the Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid of noir stories. Honestly, I think it could've worked if they played it straight, but the comedy is so on point that the series would have been the lesser for it not existing.

If I had to pick one story, I would have to say '42', I really don't get the hate for this story as I personally love it

I'm a fan of this one too! Good solid story with nice visuals, great setting and the unnerving sight of the Doctor losing control of his own mind.

Possibly the problem is that the latter half of Series 3 has such a strong run that it gets lost in the mix for being more traditional (compared to Human Nature, Blink, etc.)