Doctor Who: the rankings

[coalescent]

Based on the results of this, this and this:

1 2x04 The Girl in the Fireplace 95.2

Comments

[iainjclark]

Amazingly given the absolutism of GOOD or BAD it makes general sense.

Like you I'm a bit surprised by the S2 finale doing so well. Must be all the Rose 'shippers. ;-). Likewise from S1 'Bad Wolf' was rubbish apart from the ending, which must have saved it (see also 'Utopia').

Bit surprised by some of the mid range too, like 'The Lazarus Experiment' and 'The Idiot's Lantern' coming off significantly worse than 'The Long Game', 'The Shakespeare Code', the Christmas specials etc. etc.

And my personal cause célèbre is that I hugely enjoyed 'Daleks in Manhattan', and only felt that the whole thing collapsed like a bad RTD finale soufflé in 'Evolution of the Daleks'.

[snowking]

cause célèbre

You've typoed "HORRIBLE BRAIN FLAW" there.

[iainjclark]

Must be all the accents.

[despotliz]

I am surprised that Smith and Jones is above The Family of Blood.

[coalescent]

I think it would make my top ten.

My top ten:

1. The Girl in the Fireplace
2= Human Nature/The Family of Blood
4= The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
6. Blink
7. Dalek
8. The Christmas Invasion
9. The End of the World
10. Smith and Jones.

[iainjclark]

Despite the Space Rhinos and the MRI of DOOM?

Also I quite enjoyed 'The Christmas Invasion' but again it didn't knock me out.

[coalescent]

Well, to be honest I was scrabbling a bit for the last couple.

I do really like "The Christmas Invasion", though, because I think David Tennant's performance in the last fifteen minutes or so is hilariously brilliant.

[lil_shepherd]

While I think "School Reunion" and "Family of Blood" should be rated higher, I am also fascinated to note how low some of the Dalek episodes rate. Quite rightly, IMHO.

Also gratified to see low rating of "Love and Monsters".

[pikelet]

Also gratified to see low rating of "Love and Monsters".

Wrong in the head!

[pickwick]

I'm just happy Dalek made the top ten.

But I'm surprised how high up Runaway Bride is. I mean, it's not actually high up, but I'd have it probably in last place...

[iainjclark]

It aired at Christmas, when we were over-full and slightly drunk.

[white_hart]

It was also almost straight after Casablanca, by comparison with which it suffered enormously. It's possible it was no worse than many other episodes, but compared to 'We'll always have Paris' it really was a turkey...

[helen_keeble]

Moffet for the win!

All fans of Moffet's Doctor Who episodes really _need_ to be watching his current miniseries, Jekyll. 'Tis awesome, and I think it should be on the Hugo list next year.

[fba]

Jekyll falls into the 'it grabs me enough to carry on watching it even though it isn't very good' category. How much of this is Moffat's fault and how much is James f**king Nesbitt's I'm not sure. I suspect that most of the problems are with the casting generally (Jackman's wife is also very annoying) rather than the script...

[helen_keeble]

Interesting - I really like the casting, especially (after ep 3) Claire (Mrs Jackman). :-)

Admittedly, I have never seen any of the actors in anything else (AFAIK), so I'm not really seeing the _actors_, just the characters.