Top Ten Episodes of Doctor Who (According to Me) #6-10
My top five episodes were really easy to choose, but numbers 6-10 were a LOT harder, so here's a list of some episodes that almost made the final cut.
Honorable mentions: School Reunion. I REALLY enjoy this episode and I cannot understand people who use this episode to hate on Rose. She was not the only one acting petty and immature in this ( Read more... )
Honorable mentions: School Reunion. I REALLY enjoy this episode and I cannot understand people who use this episode to hate on Rose. She was not the only one acting petty and immature in this ( Read more... )
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These two things sum up my feelings on School Reunion. Tony Head makes for a creepy and nicely animalistic villain, y/y?
When I'm writing these types of lists myself, I generally count double eps as a single entity. When it comes to Doomsday, though, I separate it. The two eps put together are more of a single story than some of the multi-eps, sure, but it's only Doomsday that I really love out of those two. You're absolutely right about the plot issues, as well. I just ignore that, mostly, in favour of the so-very-pretty sadness.
Ok, so the actual sci-fi plot with the scavengers eating people isn't all that compelling, but this episode is PERFECT from an emotional and character standpoint.
If you reword this so that 'scavengers eating people' is replaced with [insert alien menace here], this is pretty much true of all Paul Cornell's stuff, no? He really is better at emotion than plot. Or, you know, logic.
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And I AM SHOCKED AND APPALLED to see s6 making it anywhere on the list, but The Girl Who Waited was damn good, it's gotta be said. Also Rory and Amy calling out Eleven for being a douche ranks pretty high for me.
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TGWW is SO GOOD THOUGH. I wish I could take it away from the horror that is the rest of series 6. I am pretty sure that half the reason I love it is because Amy and Rory call Eleven out for being an ass. But like, it's a clever and pretty original plot, and the character stuff is on-point! I love it! (lol It's also the only Moffat Who episode that made it anywhere on my Top Ten list).
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I think the only place where TGWW is lacking is that IT'S SO ALONE. All the character stuff is brill but THERE IS VERY LITTLE FOLLOW THROUGH. I mean, that's not the fault of the episode itself, which is pretty flawless, but it colours my perception of it and means every time I say "fantastic episode" I also have to add "BUT...".
Tbh though, it's my favourite Amy moment hands down.
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and that is why she is a hero.
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Eh, I thought they were all acting badly for a while. That episode really pissed me off at RTD, actually. Two women fighting over a guy and then bonding over how he's just a silly man - bah. I also hated the specifics of the speech Sarah Jane gives Rose. I think it's how you feel about Moffat in general - all this stuff that could have been good or fine but was just made so sexist and stupid...
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There were other vibes though - not so much in the straightforward cafeteria scenes as in her bitch-fights with Sarah Jane - that did set off vibes of a different sort. Fairly or not, I think comparison to a romantic scene is inevitable for a lot of people when faced with two women who are arguing basically about (1) who's had the cooler time with a man (2) who the man likes more. The Sarah Jane and Rose bonding scene also has strong parallels to the sorts of romantic comedy stories where 2 women (often the ex ( ... )
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