Dalek really was a great way of reintroducing the villains. Having just one Dalek showed how dangerous they were which helped to set them up to be the big threat that they're seen to be, particularly for the Series 1 finale!

 

To spewd it up when it was fighing a whole platoon, as it had one laser beam per person at a time, they made it electrocute them through their rubber roots ahaha.

 

Midnight and Eleventh Hour should be MUCH lower.

 

Midnight is AMAZING :wub: Defo in my personal top 10 just thrilling to watch and nothing like Doctor Who typically is.

Someone at DigitalSpy must have clocked this as they have done their own rank :lol:

'Not as bad as people suggest' - uh yes it is. And more! Absolutey terrible. Stll, if they're gonna copy Joseph, the least they could do is not copy his stances on he episodes too!! :lol:

Much prefer Joseph's countdown tbh. He placed the Library episodes low but not ridiculously low.

The Eleventh Hour was alright, obviously I remember it bc it was the first Matt Smith episode but if it wasn't I'd probably have forgotten it.

 

Midnight was AMAZING though, such a tense episode, my dad goes on about it all the time still :lol:

Midnight was great, but Turn Left is by far the greater of the two solo episodes. I like the characters and the tension brought by the unseen threat but what I really love about this episode was the fact that it gave Donna one last chance to chill out and relax on an alien planet before the heartbreaking next 3 episodes.

Turn Left is good and very interesting, except from humans gettng unauthorised access to the Tardis and the cheapo nasty plastic bug frm Wilkinson's.

recapping some that I missed:

 

Asylum of the Daleks is definitely the best Dalek episode of the Moffatt era and one of the best episodes overall! The production is incredible and it contains some genuinely scary moments, especially with Rory alone. The human Dalek puppets were a good idea, especially better than the previous human Daleks that we'd seen! The added twist of Clara was also completely shock-worthy, especially with the extra twist that she was a Dalek! The Amy & Rory split was completely unnecessary though.

 

Fathers Day was a good exploration of both Rose's character and what a person might do with time travel. The reapers were a good idea but it would limit future storylines if they kept appearing everytime a paradox might be created :kink:

 

The Waters of Mars is absolutely incredible, I love everything about it! I love the idea that it is a major event in the future (along the same lines as say the Titanic sinking) but that allows the story to play around with it without it seeming ridiculous. It really helps to further explore the character of the Doctor and his battle between getting/not getting involved. The monsters are a brilliant invention and help make the story so tense in that water can easily spread anywhere and everywhere, bringing that extra dimension to the base under seige story. The final 15 minutes is superb, especially with Adelaide's speech (The Time Lord Victorious is wrong <3)

 

Whilst the alien threat is weak (and the episode COMPLETELY wastes Olivia Colman) The Eleventh Hour is a really strong episode in rebooting the series. It is an incredibly brave thing to continue the series without ANY characters who had appeared in the previous few series (although River Song would of course appear later on) and, like Rose, the brilliant writing helped the series to continue once again. The scenes with Amelia were great and it helps to set up Amy's character and sets up a sort of beautifully magic aspect for the series. It is a testament to both Matt & Karen as well as Moffatt himself.

Someone at DigitalSpy must have clocked this as they have done their own rank :lol:

I stopped reading when I saw Partners in Crime so low :drama:

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13 Partners in Crime

Series 4, Episode 1

Doctor: Tenth

Companion: Donna Noble

Also starring: Sylvia Noble, Wilfred Mott, Rose Tyler

 

Speak of the devil :magic:

 

The Doctor and Donna both investigate Adipose Industries, a company selling weight loss pills fronted by Miss Foster. Donna begins working as a temp while the Doctor uses his psychic paper to get in. Both follow the same leads, narrowly missing each other as they visit a client each to learn more. Donna visits Stacey Campbell, a woman who's preparing to go on a night out, and she couldn't be happier with the effect of the pills. However, with a pendant she's picked up, Donna unwittingly causes the pills to activate in Stacey, and she witnesses what they really do - create tiny little creatures of fat. Once she's seen the creature, the pills are fully activated by Miss Foster and Stacey is killed as her body turns into many of the little creatures. The Doctor meanwhile visits Roger Davie, a man more sceptical of the pills after he gets woken up at 1:30am when the burglar alarm goes off - by which point, he'd lost exactly 1kg. Donna returns home after Stacey's disappearance, to a whining Sylvia, and joins grandad Wilf "up the hill", where she has a heart to heart with him, telling him she wants to find "a man", referring to the Doctor specifically. The next day, Donna is almost captured by Miss Foster, who was actually on the lookout for journalist Penny Carter instead. She follows them up to Miss Foster's office, as does the Doctor who takes the more scenic route using the window cleaning lift. Donna and the Doctor finally meet, communicating to each other using mime. When Miss Foster notices them both, they both escape, and Donna meets the Doctor on the roof. They descend in the lift, but Miss Foster uses her sonic pen to snap one of the cables, leaving Donna dangling. The Doctor climbs in through a window and helps Donna in through one of the lower windows, also helping Penny escape..... before being captured again :') The reunited duo come face to face with Miss Foster in the offices, who explains that her real name is Matron Cofelia, a nanny of sorts. The Doctor and Donna head to stop the plan, but Miss Foster activates the Adipose, as Sylvia notices on her night out with friends. The Doctor and Donna manage to stop it using the pendants, but with so many Adipose born already, Miss Foster sends them up to the newly arrived nursery ship, along with herself. However, ignoring the Doctor's warnings, she plummets to her death as the Adiposian First Family are aware that their actions were illegal. Donna invites herself in the TARDIS, with the Doctor being wary after the events with Martha. He accepts however, and takes her to wave goodbye to Wilf on the hill.

 

Partners in Crime may not be as "deep" as a lot of the episodes surrounding it, but this is what works to its advantage for me. It's an incredibly fun opening episode, with lots of laughter and comedy moments with a pretty decent plot, if not one of the biggest threats the show has seen. The Adipose are incredibly cute and I kinda like the idea of them not being vicious, angry creatures like you'd stereotypically expect - it's not their fault that humans are being turned into them! The mime scene between the Doctor and Donna is one of my favourites of the new series, never fails to raise a smile, and Rose's re-appearance was a huge surprise at the time, I loved it. Shoutout also to Donna and Wilf's scene on the hill, incredibly heartwarming and just one of the many reasons why both Catherine Tate and Bernard Cribbins are exceptional in the show. A really fun start to series 4 with endless rewatchability, which sees it to perhaps a surprise high position.

Partners in Crime - the first Doctor Who episode I ever watched! That girl being turned int the Adipose was indeed scary, and I'd forgotten about the Adipose being beamed up until now! Did we ever get to see what they looked like in adult form?

I have made it to series 4 and I just love Donna as a companion. I think Bill has made it to my second favourite of the new series but I'm not sure anyone will top Donna.

 

I do ironically love Mel from the Colin Baker/Sylvester McCoy days. #bonnielangfordscreaming

Wrong. Rose is better.

 

I love that episode - ridiculous, but it works!

I liked Rose in Series 1, enjoyed her bouncing off Eccleston. Controversially, I didn't enjoy her with Tennant. She always seemed overly smug in series 2 and I think that's why I think the series the weakest of RTD. She was put on way too high a pedestal in Series 3 and then was good for nothing but foreshadowing in Series 4.

 

Donna was interesting and funny all the way through and bounced of Tennant much better. I even preferred Martha with Tennant (having just watched Series 3, she gets way too much stick)

Partners in Crime was the moment I really warmed to Donna as a companion. She was okay as a one-off companion, but when I heard she was going to be a full-time companion I wasn't convinced as a) I was worried that having Catherine Tate as full time companion would turn the series into a farce, and in a more directly comedic direction that I wasn't on board with, and b) I didn't think that the character of Donna could be likable over the course of a series. Luckily, Partners In Crime proved me wrong, as although it did add a lot more comedy than before (the episode includes two of my favourite "comedic" moments in Who - the mimed conversation, and Donna misunderstanding what The Doctor meant when he said he wanted a "mate"), Donna really grew on me as a character, and one of the key moments in the episode is Donna realising how much The Doctor had changed since she last saw him when he allows the Adipose children to return. Donna's definitely my favourite of the New Who companions as well, just goes to show that there's much joy in being wrong.

Series 2 is weakesr as Tennant is awful.

I was also not sure about Catherine Tate at first. Same reasons as you, Chez, but also because I knew she would only commit to 1 series. I was proved wrong for most of it, but if you're going to have only 1 series, at least it was an amazing one.

 

As for Michael's thoughts, I should just dismiss them as he does with anyone else's views.

I was also not sure about Catherine Tate at first. Same reasons as you, Chez, but also because I knew she would only commit to 1 series. I was proved wrong for most of it, but if you're going to have only 1 series, at least it was an amazing one.

 

As for Michael's thoughts, I should just dismiss them as he does with anyone else's views.

 

I think you mean Brett :kink:

 

Though while I'm here, I did rewatch Series 4 recently though and she certainly wasn't as bad as I remember and made some good funnies and was excellent in Turn Left and the Library two parter, still not a huge fan though, the 'time lord' version in Journey's End was just...no. Rose did get a tad too clingy in S2 onwards but she's still my favourite, Martha is as I remember her - competent and refreshingly normal, but just not very memorable coming in between Rose and Donna.

 

The DS rank have a pretty spot on top 10, but the S1 finale and the Library two parter's placings are ridiculous.

Edited May 29, 20178 yr by Chez Wombat

I think you mean Brett :kink:

 

Though while I'm here, I did rewatch Series 4 recently though and she certainly wasn't as bad as I remember and made some good funnies and was excellent in Turn Left and the Library two parter, still not a huge fan though, the 'time lord' version in Journey's End was just...no. Rose did get a tad too clingy in S2 onwards but she's still my favourite, Martha is as I remember her - competent and refreshingly normal, but just not very memorable coming in between Rose and Donna.

 

The DS rank have a pretty spot on top 10, but the S1 finale and the Library two parter's placings are ridiculous.

 

Yes I did mean Brett! Doing this on my phone so I couldn't see the username in the frame and I thought it was you!