I am finally getting around to ~revealing~ my top 5 episodes of Doctor Who. It's probably pretty obvious to those who know me, but let's pretend this is suspenseful. ( drumroll, please )
ALL 5 OF THESE ARE AMAZING AND I LOVE THEM AND AGREE WHOLEHEARTEDLY TBH
Turn Left, HN/FOB and WOM are my top 3 and for the most part it is hard for me to choose between them. Midnight is so great, every time I watch it I'm on the edge of my seat even though I know exactly what's going to happen when, and TIP/TSP is really great and totally my favourite episode from a Doctor/Rose perspective.
ffffffff all of these episodes are so good.
IA about both Blink and VATD, they're good but they're not top 10 quality for me. VATD isn't even my favourite in s5 tbh, I mean it'd be in my list of top Moffat Era episodes but I don't really like it as much as a lot of other people do, I think because I was mad that the episode wiht so much character development used it all on Vincent and we still had Eleven and Amy as comparatively blank slates. It's a pretty beautiful episode regardless but that frustrated me.
My top three shift around a lot depending on my mood. I think the reason that TIP/TSP ultimately ended up as my number one this time around was because it's just less emotionally draining than the others. TIP/TSP is just like a really delicious comforting bowl of ice cream.
Yeah, my favorite in series 5 is probably The Lodger. LOL. IDGAF. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I REALLY LIKED ELEVEN. (Oh how short lived that was...) I mean, it'd definitely make the top ten of Moffat Who, but Moffat Who is kid of slim pickings for me. ITA about how all the character development was focused on Vincent with a bit of Amy stuff shoved in at the end. It's still a good episode, but it's not without its flaws.
i sort of picked an order one time and have rigidly stuck to it ever since because it's easier that way lolol.
Amy's Choice is top for me, and then probably The Lodger and then maybe VATD. If I was doing like, Top 10 of Moff-Era it would make the cut. But maybe not even top 5? Because Girl Who Waited and Doctor's Wife exist.
Heh "The Lodger" is also my fave of s5, for the same reason! Craig + Eleven is like some magical combination that makes him suddenly likeable (I found it having the same effect on me even in s6 in Craig's epp!).
And yeah I will never understand why people hold up VaTD as like ~THE BEST EPP EVAR, it was a solid epp to be sure, but I didn't think it was groundbreaking or anything...:s Plus the weird way they pronounce Van Gogh's name and Bill Nighy's OTT praise for the artist (sorry but even a lot of Dutch art history academics wouldn't agree with you there, man! He was good, but not necessarily THE best, why couldn't you have added a "one of" in there?).
Ugh TIP/TSP why are you so beautiful? I love that you have TIP/TSP and then WOM. Those two stories are so perfect. IDK if this was your reasoning, but TIP/TSP slightly beats out WOM for me because shipping is my first priority, then it is clearly Ten's character development.
Those five stories really do contain some of the best television I've seen, I think, not just in Doctor Who. Even thinking of the Doctor saying "water always wins" right now is giving me the shivers.
Guh. There is some really fabulous writing in these episodes. Like, "Midnight" is SO well done. Can you imagine how difficult it would have been to write all the overlapping voices and constructing the characters and the creature possessing Skye and the Doctor and as;ldkfjd;slkjf. Such good writing.
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Turn Left, HN/FOB and WOM are my top 3 and for the most part it is hard for me to choose between them. Midnight is so great, every time I watch it I'm on the edge of my seat even though I know exactly what's going to happen when, and TIP/TSP is really great and totally my favourite episode from a Doctor/Rose perspective.
ffffffff all of these episodes are so good.
IA about both Blink and VATD, they're good but they're not top 10 quality for me. VATD isn't even my favourite in s5 tbh, I mean it'd be in my list of top Moffat Era episodes but I don't really like it as much as a lot of other people do, I think because I was mad that the episode wiht so much character development used it all on Vincent and we still had Eleven and Amy as comparatively blank slates. It's a pretty beautiful episode regardless but that frustrated me.
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Yeah, my favorite in series 5 is probably The Lodger. LOL. IDGAF. IT WAS THE FIRST TIME I REALLY LIKED ELEVEN. (Oh how short lived that was...) I mean, it'd definitely make the top ten of Moffat Who, but Moffat Who is kid of slim pickings for me. ITA about how all the character development was focused on Vincent with a bit of Amy stuff shoved in at the end. It's still a good episode, but it's not without its flaws.
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Amy's Choice is top for me, and then probably The Lodger and then maybe VATD. If I was doing like, Top 10 of Moff-Era it would make the cut. But maybe not even top 5? Because Girl Who Waited and Doctor's Wife exist.
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And yeah I will never understand why people hold up VaTD as like ~THE BEST EPP EVAR, it was a solid epp to be sure, but I didn't think it was groundbreaking or anything...:s Plus the weird way they pronounce Van Gogh's name and Bill Nighy's OTT praise for the artist (sorry but even a lot of Dutch art history academics wouldn't agree with you there, man! He was good, but not necessarily THE best, why couldn't you have added a "one of" in there?).
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Ugh TIP/TSP why are you so beautiful? I love that you have TIP/TSP and then WOM. Those two stories are so perfect. IDK if this was your reasoning, but TIP/TSP slightly beats out WOM for me because shipping is my first priority, then it is clearly Ten's character development.
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which may explain why the knockoff in 42 heralds such bad things?
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Turn left is actually my favourite :)
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