My favourite would definately come from Series 4 (inc. VOTD) , but I'm not sure which one exactly because they're all so good!

 

Other than those from Series 4 I think The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances, Blink, and Heaven Sent deserve to be high on this list!

Oh Blink was great, as was the one with Melody on that planet where Rory sies again. I preferred that to Blink tbh,. All theWeeping Angels episodes were amazing.

 

TheImpossible Planet was trash and too religious.

Silence of the library 2 parter is mine river was fantastic until we found out more about her imo

 

 

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80 The Wedding of River Song

Series 6, Episode 13

Doctor: Eleventh

Companion: Amy Pond, Rory Williams, River Song

 

Yet more series 6 now, and this time, it's the finale. We start off in an alternate timeline, where there are pterodactyls roaming the skies, Churchill is the Holy Roman Emperor of the UK, and the time is stuck at 5:02pm. Churchill asks for his soothsayer, and brings a scruffy looking Doctor out, who explains the events that led to this moment. The Doctor attempted to track down the Silence to figure out why he must die, encountering the head of Dorium Maldovar and the Teselecta on the way. When he accepts his fate, River Song inside the astronaut costume refuses to shoot him, therefore changing a fixed moment in history, causing all of time to happen at once. The Doctor and Churchill are saved from numerous Silents by Amy, who takes him to a pyramid, where the Silence are kept in tanks and Madame Kovarian is tied up by River Song. Everyone wears an eyedrive so they don't forget the Silence when they turn around. The Silence break free and overload the eyedrives, killing anyone wearing one, although this includes Madame Kovarian after Amy refuses to save her. The Doctor and River "marry" on the rooftop and as they touch, time begins to revert back to normal, with River killing the Doctor on Lake Silencio. However, what Amy, Rory and River aren't aware of is that the Doctor actually replaced himself with the Teselecta, so he wasn't killed after all.

 

I've mentioned already how the series 6 arc felt overly confusing and messy, and this is heavy with tying up the loose ends so it's no surprise this isn't a big favourite of mine. The idea of time happening at once was quite a fun twist although it was initially quite confusing I found! The best part is when the Doctor finds out about the Brigadier's death - a very sad moment but a touching tribute to Nicholas Courtney.

Unmemorable and boring.

 

79 The Vampires of Venice

Series 5, Episode 6

Doctor: Eleventh

Companion: Amy Pond, Rory Williams

 

The Doctor seeks out Rory at the start of this episode, interrupting his stag do to tell him that Amy kissed him (as we saw the end of Flesh and Stone). He then decides to take the couple on a date to Venice, but before long, they bump into a man called Guido, who says he's not heard from his daughter Isabella since she joined the Calvierri school for girls. Amy goes undercover in the school and allows the Doctor and Rory inside, but is captured by Rosanna Calvierri and her son Francesco. They have teeth like vampires and appear to drink Amy's blood, but in fact they are replacing it with their own, converting her to their own kind. Amy kicks Rosanna's device and briefly sees her true alien form. Isabella helps Amy and the others escape but the sunlight prevents her from leaving, as she has already been partially converted herself, and she is later killed by aliens that live in the canal by the castle. The Doctor returns to question Rosanna, who identifies herself as a Saturnyne, and reveals that she plans to sink the city into water and convert the humans to "sisters of the water". The Doctor regroups with the others, but they are attacked by some of the transformed girls. Guido sacrifices himself, killing the girls in an explosion. Rosanna activates the device that will flood Venice, but the Doctor climbs to the top of the tower while Amy and Rory face off against Francesco. When defeated, Rosanna jumps into the canal, to be consumed by her own kind.

 

I think this episode is pretty solid, it's bread and butter for Doctor Who really and not tied up in an ongoing arc like we'd see in later Moffat series. Much like the other "supernatural" influenced stories like Tooth and Claw, we see that the supernatural beings, vampires in this case, are actually aliens, and it works quite well as a plot I'd say. Isabella and her father make for good supporting characters, although the biggest flaw in the episode comes from the CGI as the Doctor climbs the tower :lol: It's no Doctor Who classic (like many around this section) but it's solid, the type of episode I enjoy, just not among the very best.

Eh, that was ok.

I really don't remember any of these Series 6 ones, reminding me how much I tuned out for that whole thing. As well played as she was, I'm honestly glad River's gone, it was her that all this confusing stuff revolved around.

 

I did enjoy The Name of the Doctor, though it was flawed (and I don't remember why his name was actually important at all lol) and Tooth and Claw, though that might have been my Season 2 bias.

 

(Also, Rose>>>>>everyone, Meek knows it)

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78 A Town Called Mercy

Series 7, Episode 3

Doctor: Eleventh

Companion: Amy Pond, Rory Williams

 

By mistake, the Doctor, Amy and Rory end up in a small town in the USA called Mercy in this episode. Quickly, the Doctor notices that a ring of stone and wood surrounds the town, and that they have electricity 10 years too early. They find out that the residents are being kept inside the town by a figure called the Gunslinger, who wants the town to turn over "the doctor". This doctor is known as Kahler-Jex and is being held in jail within the town - he's an alien lifeform who has helped the residents out after they rescued him when his ship crashed. The Doctor offers to get the TARDIS and evacuate the town, while the town's marshal Isaac distracts the Gunslinger with Rory. On his way, the Doctor finds Jex's ship, and sets off an alarm in it. He finds out that Jex is from a team of scientists that experimented on people, turning them into cyborgs, and when the Gunslinger arrives at the ship, the Doctor realises he is one of these cyborgs. It turns out that the Gunslinger is programmed not to harm innocent people and is just wanting to avenge what Jex did to him. However, he demands of the Doctor that the next person to step out of the town must be Jex. The Doctor drags Jex out of the town, despite Amy protesting, and as Jex is about to be shot, Isaac jumps in the way and is killed himself. His final action is to give his marshal badge to the Doctor so he can protect the town instead. Overnight, the residents form an angry mob outside, but the Doctor devises a plan. When the Gunslinger arrives, the villagers confuse the cyborg by running around with the same facial markings painted onto them. Jex flees to his ship, but instead of taking off, he activates self destruct, while the Gunslinger stays as the town's new marshal, needing a place to protect.

 

This episode never seems to get mentioned a lot I've noticed. It's a shame actually because I think it's pretty interesting, I like the idea of the Gunslinger being a victim after initially being suspected as the villain. Jex is portrayed superbly by Adrian Scarborough, and for a western episode, it could've been a lot more clichéd than it actually was. Solid episode, only the second from series 7A to be eliminated in fact!

I really don't remember any of these Series 6 ones, reminding me how much I tuned out for that whole thing. As well played as she was, I'm honestly glad River's gone, it was her that all this confusing stuff revolved around.

 

I did enjoy The Name of the Doctor, though it was flawed (and I don't remember why his name was actually important at all lol) and Tooth and Claw, though that might have been my Season 2 bias.

 

(Also, Rose>>>>>everyone, Meek knows it)

The Doctor's name had to be spoken in order to open his tomb, so the Great Intelligence could intercept his timestream! :magic: (it took me a few rewatches to get this)

 

77 The Long Game

Series 1, Episode 7

Doctor: Ninth

Companion: Rose Tyler, Adam Mitchell

 

His luck had to run out sometime! Christopher Eccleston's lowest story is here at #78. It continues from the conclusion of Dalek, which sees Adam join the Doctor and Rose in the TARDIS. Rose takes him for a bite to eat while the Doctor investigates. He meets Suki and Cathica, who tell him they're on Satellite Five, the centre of all news channels on Earth in the year 200,000. The Doctor, Rose and Adam then watch the news transmission process, with Cathica sat in the middle of the room with Suki and others around the outside. Cathica clicks her fingers and opens a hole in her forehead, exposing her brain, before beginning the infospike. Information streams into her brain and transmits from there. Afterwards, Suki is promoted to floor 500, the top floor of the space station, where only the best are said to be invited. When she gets there, she meets the Editor, who has realised that she is an imposter, trying to find out the truth about Satellite Five. She is reduced to a working drone, who sits at the computer on floor 500, barely conscious. The Doctor and Rose hack into the computer before travelling up to floor 500 themselves, where they find the walls are not made of gold, but in fact it is freezing cold while the heat is being vented to lower levels. Meanwhile Adam has his own chip installed, so he can store information about the future and bring it back to the present. The Doctor and Rose are captured by the Editor and introduced to the Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe (I know that off by heart :ph34r:), which controls every human on the Earth. Adam's infospike allows the Editor to learn more about the Doctor, but Cathica overrides and allows the top floor to defrost, therefore ruining the optimum temperature for the Jagrafess and causing it to explode. The Doctor suggests the human race will accelerate now, before dropping Adam home, ashamed.

 

This episode tries to cram a lot into 45 minutes. The infospike idea is excellent and I think the character of Adam was portrayed really interestingly - not every companion is travelling for the right reasons, and this is something I've appreciated more with rewatches actually. The biggest letdown is the Jagrafess - it's not really utilised very well and it just looks a bit..... useless? We don't see much of it or what it can do, and I think if we had a better alien at the end of the episode, it'd be higher. Bonus points for the ending, where Adam's mum clicks her fingers and his forehead opens :') This leaves series 4 as the only series with all of its stories intact!

I mention A Town Called Mercy a lot because it was one of the best episodes the show did before I stopped watching!!! That ending speech gives me chills, because of the whole legacy of the Gunslinger lasting through the ages. The whole remote western town has a strong sense of community that comes across really quickly and it has a wonderful moral dilemma of this alien doctor who's done atrocities, paired off against a cyborg, it all has a very Star Trek (particularly the original series) vibe, as in, classic sci-fi used as discussion and introspection on ourselves.

 

Vampires Of Venice is solid, Venice is a cool setting and they did well enough in periodising it. The Long Game, I find it works better in conjunction with Bad Wolf - as in, two episodes set a century apart in pretty much the same place, adds a double meaning to the title 'The Long Game' and a sense of foreboding when you know what this place will turn into later on, Simon Pegg was good in it, I always remember thinking the treatment of Adam was overly harsh for what he did, one strike and you're out because you're not an attractive blonde girl - but then Eccleston was portraying a harsher Doctor.

Can't remember any of it, except the clicking forehead.

 

Season 2 shoulda been ahead of season 4 tho!!!

I really Like the Long Game and I love the Editor (well of course I will since Simon Pegg is my fave actor) I love how the controlled woman is the one who brings the editor down with the building

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76 Hell Bent

Series 9, Episode 12

Doctor: Twelfth

Companion: Clara Oswald

Also starring: Ashildr/"Me"

 

We'll start to see more RTD era episodes start to drop out now, but first, here's another Moffat episode. This time, it's the series 9 finale. Hell Bent carries on directly from Heaven Sent, although we see the episode narrated by the Doctor in an American diner, talking to a woman who looks remarkably like Clara Oswald. The Time Lords are aware of the Doctor's return to Gallifrey as the cloisters have been set off, but the Doctor himself hides away, waiting for them to track him down. The Time Lords make many attempts to speak to him, but he refuses until the Lord President, aka Rassilon, finally gives in. The Doctor tells him to get off his planet, and when the Gallifreyan military side with the Doctor, he reluctantly leaves. The Doctor now devises a plan to rescue Clara, taking her out from the second before she dies and restoring her partially, with no pulse and no need to breathe. The military general insists that it is only temporary but the Doctor has other ideas, and runs off with Clara into the cloisters. They try to escape, but when the general and Ohila of the Sisterhood of Karn give chase, Clara distracts them for long enough so that the Doctor can steal another TARDIS. They go to the end of the universe to see immortal Me, to talk about the hybrid prophecy. The Doctor realises that it's a human and Time Lord hybrid - him and Clara, and that together, they are a dangerous combination. He plans to wipe Clara's memory of him a la Donna, but she refuses, and they press the button together like a lottery. Ultimately it is the Doctor who forgets, and later we see him wake up and talk to Clara in the diner, without fully knowing who she is. The diner is revealed to be her TARDIS and she leaves with Me to travel the universe, before eventually going back to her death.

 

I like a lot of the elements of this episode. The Doctor's return to Gallifrey was really well shot, and his chat with Clara in the cloisters was fantastic, particularly when she realised how long he'd spent in the confession dial to retrieve her. My issue is that it tries to cram in so many ideas that ultimately it's a bit of a mess. Furthermore, I really loved Clara's ending in Face the Raven. It's not often we see a companion die, and we saw the culmination of a series-long plotline of Clara taking way too many risks. The ending is happier in Hell Bent perhaps, but I'm not sure it really works as well or has that emotional impact. I think with a bit of fine-tuning though, this could've been an incredibly epic finale, it's just all over the place despite being enjoyable.

Oh I really liked that episode.

 

No WAAAY is that super repetitive one, and WAAAY over the top one, where he kills himself over and over and punches through a f***in wall of DIAMOND for NO REASON, higher!!

 

 

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Class

Starring: Greg Austin, Fady Elsayed, Sophie Hopkins, Vivian Oparah, Jordan Renzo and Katherine Kelly

 

A quick interlude now to talk about the first of the three main New Who spin-offs (I mean, has anyone actually watched 'K-9'??)! With Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures having been off air for a number of years, the path was clear for a new spin-off, and Class filled that gap. Created by Patrick Ness, the show was set to follow the lives of Charlie, Ram, April, Tanya and Matteusz, alongside their physics teacher Miss Quill, as they dealt with a rip in time located at the famous Coal Hill School, or Academy as it is now. The show was mainly aimed at the teen/young adult market, and was released initially to BBC Three, or the iPlayer as it simply is these days, before being given a pretty terrible slot late night on BBC1. Among the Doctor Who fanbase on other forums I've visited, Class has received pretty mixed reviews, and its future beyond series 1 looks very uncertain at this stage.

 

I was very hyped for a new Who spin-off. I totally loved The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood recovered really well after a shaky start (more on these later), so was gagging for something to fill that gap. Class got off to a decent start, lots of potential established in episode 1 with a solid cast, with the clear highlight being Katherine Kelly as Miss Quill ("leave us, we are DECORATING" is the quote of the series). Sadly it didn't quite seem to pick up the pace until the final few episodes and despite some cool concepts, series 1 leaves a LOT that needs to be improved if a series 2 gets the go-ahead, including scrapping the awful Shadow Kin and not forcing the more adult themes so much.

 

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Worst Story: Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart / Brave-ish Heart

Series 1, Episodes 4 and 5

 

I really quite liked the character of April so was interested in a story centred around her, but sadly this was overshadowed by how awful the Shadow Kin are. They look like budget Pyrovile (you know, the rock monsters from Doctor Who episode The Fires of Pompeii), and I certainly struggled to understand the overly deep alien voice. This is before we get to the scene where April and Ram have sex, and because the Shadow Kin leader Corakinus is linked to April, he wanted to satisfy his urges with another one of his kind. The first part of this story actually builds fairly well otherwise, with April's criminal father turning up after being released from prison, while she struggles to control Corakinus' influence over her. The love scenes with Ram felt quite shoehorned in though, I must say. The best part of this episode was the killer petals, and they were more of an afterthought to get Quill to meet up with Ms. Ames, the new headteacher.

 

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Best Story: The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did

Series 1, Episode 7

 

I said above that Katherine Kelly was the best thing about this show, so it makes sense that my favourite episode was the one focused around her. Quill proves to be the most complex character they have, imprisoned by Charlie as a punishment, like they would do in his now almost-extinct race. This story sees Quill go on a mission to remove this punishment, an Arn in her head, from her, and enlists the help of Ames and a shapeshifting alien named Ballon. The scene where the Arn is removed is extremely and unnecessarily gruesome but otherwise Katherine's a superb actress and I barely even noticed the other cast being mostly absent. Having said that, the preceding episode (which focuses on what the teens did during this time period) was pretty strong too and comes a close second in this!

What annoys me the most about Class is that there was no Doctor Who connection. Torchwood & SJA still had the style of Doctor Who but interpreted it to fit their relevant audiences. Class was clearly thought of first and then had DW attached to it in order to increase viewers (not that it helped). Shoehorning in the Doctor, Coal Hill and that ending does not make it associated to Doctor Who, especially when there is literally zero chance of a second series after no one watched it.

 

It was good in terms of defining all of the characters and making them all have their own personalities but the plots were pretty shit, especially the AWFUL Shadowkin who sadly dominated the series. Episodes 4/5 really were the worst and incredibly uninteresting. It was quite a shame because I actually enjoyed the third episode too.

 

I literally could not care less for the series though and I won't ever be watching it again. I treat it the same as Torchwood: Miracle Day and pretend it didn't happen.

What doesn't help Class for me is that not long after, I started getting into Teen Wolf, which is aimed at the same demographic, except they actually do it way better. The relationships that form generally felt more natural than say, Ram and April.

 

The funny thing is, Matteusz was probably the best teen character and he wasn't even main cast :lol: the fact he questioned Charlie regularly was important as nobody else seemed to have a problem with Miss Quill basically being his slave!

Matteusz and Qull were the best characters for me too