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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

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I liked 'Love and Monsters' a lot - until about 20 minutes in. But once Peter Kay started hamming it up it began a rapid pantward career. It probably averages out somewhere between Smashing and Luvverly.

'Blink' has been the highlight of the current series so far, with the Dalek two-parter the nadir - but perhaps that's partly because one expects so much more from Daleks?

I can barely remember 42 - which says it all, really.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I simply adore 'Love and Monsters': I never believed I would see My Life In Fandom dramatized so cleverly and honestly and warmly. Also, I think Elton's speech at the end is magnficent. Straight to camera, he says this magnificent thing to anyone of any age listening at home:

When you're a kid, they tell you it's all ... grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.

Worth every penny I've ever spent on the licence fee.

'Blink' is a beautiful, brilliant thing. My only misgiving about it (very tiny!) was that I didn't think it came from the whole heart of the writer. It's something written by someone at the top of his game, showing exactly how skilful he is. Which is absolutely wonderful and I'm not complaining at getting great telly! But 'The Girl in the Fireplace' is about how much the same writer knows and loves Doctor Who.

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

I never believed I would see My Life In Fandom dramatized so cleverly and honestly and warmly.

Ah. Explains much, for which I thank you, but still doesn't endear the story to me at all...