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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

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Comments

[kradical.livejournal.com]

I don't agree with a lot of that -- I'd put "Gridlock" much lower and the Slitheen two-parter much higher, just for starters, and any ranking that doesn't put the execrable Dalek-New York two-parter at the very bottom is doing something wrong, as that was easily the nadir of modern Who.

Love the categories, though. *snorfle*

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I have a long post about 'Gridlock' rattling around my head which I must get round to writing up, but I don't want to do it until the final episode, in case I get jossed.

I just love the Daleks "putting on the show right here!" Taking over the Empire State Building seems exactly the kind of insane scheme Daleks would come up with, like digging to the centre of the Earth so they can pilot it around space. Also, there was a dance number.

[kradical.livejournal.com]

I had no problem with the scheme, but the rest of the episode was crap. The Daleks had about fifteen opportunities to exterminate the Doctor that they didn't take because David Tennant's listed in the credits, they couldn't have gotten 1930s Manhattan more wrong if they tried (made all the more frustrating by how well they nailed 1910s Britain a few episodes later), and Sek was the lamest and most unconvincing Who villains since the raspberry tart creatures in "The Three Doctors."

[altariel.livejournal.com]

The Daleks had about fifteen opportunities to exterminate the Doctor that they didn't take because David Tennant's listed in the credits

*splutters* Ouch, I just snorted water up my nose!

mraltariel, over my shoulder, says: "Those are many of the reasons why I love it!"

[frankymole.livejournal.com]

They got 1940s Blitz-era Britain completely wrong in Series 1, too!