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[altariel]

We have devised an infallible system for ranking and categorizing the episodes of Doctor Who. Argue as you might, you cannot be more utterly accurate than these.


The Utterly Utterly Accurate And Definitive Doctor Who Tiered Rankings

Genius
Girl In The Fireplace
Love & Monsters

Bloody brilliant
Gridlock
Utopia

Smashing
Bad Wolf
Blink
Empty Child / Doctor Dances
Human Nature / Family of Blood
School Reunion
Dalek
Smith & Jones

Luvverly
The End of the World
Rose
Parting of the Ways
New Earth
The Sound of Drums
Tooth & Claw
Unquiet Dead
Father's Day

Happy enough
Shakespeare Code
Boom Town
Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks
The Long Game
Lazarus Experiment

Yeahok
Christmas Invasion
The Impossible Planet / Satan Pit
Army of Ghosts/ Doomsday
Runaway Bride
Fear Her
Idiots Lantern

Oh dear
Rise of Cybermen / Age of Steel
Aliens of London / WWIII

Pants
42

Comments

[frankymole.livejournal.com]

The Cybermen origin story on a par with the farting Zygon ripoffs? No way. Give Graeme Harper some credit - also note the crew admit they hadn't a clue how to make New Who in block one...

Also "Fear Her" is obv bottom, GitF'ace should be an "Oh dear", and "Long Game" was the only Eccleston with any tension/suspense...

Agree with your placings of Runaway Bride (I'd maybe put it lower), and Idiot's Lantern...

Boom Town is very smelly indeed and should swap places with "42".

"Human Nature/FoB" are clearly genius and the closest things to classic Who in stature and sustained imagination - nearly on a par with the best stories (Web of Fear, Inferno, Green Death, Seeds of Doom).

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Graeme Harper's direction is great on the Cybermen story, but sadly the story itself is rather rubbish. I like the storyline about the family in "Fear Her", but the Olympic stuff is a bit toe-curling.

"The Girl in the Fireplace" makes me weep every time I watch it. Spectacular piece of telly.