Season 17 is one of my least favorite, though it's always a joy to watch Lalla Ward, the best Romana of them all. City of Death is of course brilliant, and I do enjoy Nightmare of Eden, but everything else is awful. Rock-paper-scissors in Destiny of the Daleks is fun in a so-bad-it's-good sort of way.

The problem isn't that the season is lightly comic, the problem is that it's lightly comic but none of the jokes are actually funny.