Now the dust has settled a little

[such_heights]

This week's SGA was big gay ridiculous plot space opera straight to the veins, oh my. \o/

Originally, this post was going to be the 15 Unpopular Opinions meme floating around Who fandom, but I wrote them and then realised they were all variations on the theme "I like this character/ship/episode that some people don't!". I think that is not exactly the point. Ah well, chipper to the bitter end, that is me. But let's make this a Doctor Who post regardless.

This post with its photo of Noel Clarke and Freema Agyeman from the TDK premier is amazingly cute. Cast friendships ftw! ♥

Now, it is poll time. avendya did this at the end of Series 3 (you can view that poll here) and I thought I would resurrect it now, pitting the episodes from each series against each other. I've done a minor amount of tweaking, merging all the two-parters as one option save the finales and moving a couple of episodes so they're against other single episode stories. Some of these are really hard, some I'm pretty sure I can guess the outcomes of already. So, which episodes do you like best?

[Poll #1228453]

If you're gnashing your teeth at some of those, don't worry; so am I! And please, do share your thoughts on which you like best and why.

eta: Oops, nearly forgot. Now you've trawled your way through that, answer me this. Classic or New Who answers welcomed. What's your all-time favourite Doctor Who story? There'd be a poll for this too, but apparently LJ's fed up with me now.

Comments

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Ooooh, difficult poll! It's interesting to have to choose, especially when particularly good or favorite episodes are up against each other.

I'm surprised at how well season three is doing! There are some episodes I love from that season (The Shakespeare Code and Human Nature/Family of Blood, as well as Blink) among them. But I've been contemplating lately how very well season/series one was planned out. Maybe it's because it was the first Davies arc I experienced, but I think it was really well constructed. And I think The Parting of the Ways is hands down the best finale, especially considering how seasons three and four ended. (Clearly I liked neither Last of the Time Lords or Journey's End. Heh.) Doomsday is good as well, but PotW was just . . . wow.

I'm the only one who chose Father's Day, which was hard, especially due to Blink being in the same poll. And that was mostly due to personal reasons. When I first saw Who, up to that point I thought, okay, this is a cool show and I like it. But after Father's Day -- well, that was when Who owned me. :) FD was a punch to the gut for me; completely cemented my love for Rose and for the Doctor.

[such_heights]

It's a fun way to look at them, I think. Fun, yet possibly evil, haha.

I'm surprised people are surprised! I think I'm used to the fact that largely my flist really liked S3, even if that's not the overall fandom consensus. Personally I think it's well structured in terms of themes, at least, as it's all about what it means to be human which is then explored in different ways. But certainly in terms of leading up to a finale, there's nothing that really beats the Bad Wolf motif, which still gives me shivers when I'm rewatching.

I really haven't watched that episode in absolutely ages, I need to get on that! I think we all have special fondnesses for the episodes that we just loved at the time, which is part of the fun of it.