RTD poll

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[Poll #1207064]

Comments

[stevenagy.livejournal.com]

So many to choose from. The hardest decision was which one to pick as the worst. Coin flip for me between Rose and The Longest Game. Both just struck me as awkward and forced. The first episode I saw was the Dickens episode, so I got hooked before I had to deal with Rose. By then I didn't care; it was Doctor Who, so even the bad episodes were good.

[grahamsleight.livejournal.com]

Hate to say it, but Tooth & Claw should also be there. But I guess anyone wanting to vote for it as either best or worst is a) a wronghead and b) can indicate their view in comments.

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

Dear me that's a stark list of mediocrity.

Best is between 'Midnight' and 'Parting of the Ways' for me. Worst is between 'Aliens of London' and 'New Earth'.

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

Aside from the S2 Doctor/Rose love-in I really enjoyed 'Tooth and Claw'.

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

Checking the way voting is going I can agree with 'End of the World' as a "Best" as well. But 'Bad Wolf'? The one with deadly versions of crap light entertainment shows? That 'Bad Wolf'?

Amusingly, 'Love & Monsters' is proving as divisive as ever.

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

actually I wanted to vote for it as worst - dullest anyway.

[shsilver.livejournal.com]

New Earth was edged out for me by the even worse Gridlock set in the same milieu.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

So long as we understand that 'best' means 'least mediocre'...

[grahamsleight.livejournal.com]

You could make a case for "Bad Wolf" on the basis of the last ten minutes, especially Eccleston's climactic speech. I think it's outweighed by the parody fluff at the start, but it's not an unimaginable argument to put.

[tizzle-b.livejournal.com]

To clarify I have long thought the Christmas episode to be utter pap... and I really quite liked the crabs-and-motorway-thingy-one.

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

Yes, Eccleston's speech was good. I suppose it's getting votes for the same reason as 'Utopia' - that the good bits at the end outweigh the bad bits. But 'Utopia had far more, and better, good bits.

And now 'World War Three' has a "best" vote, an episode about which all I can say is that it wasn't as dreadful as 'Aliens of London'.

And come on, people, was 'Voyage of the Damned' really worse than 'The Runaway Bride'? Was it really? I think 'Bride' must be benefitting from Donna's reconstruction this season.

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

Although 'Gridlock' featured an entirely ridiculous set up (for satirical purposes), I didn't hate it.

'New Earth' was just a poorly integrated mish-mash of several different ideas, and --fatally-- as Tennant's first regular episode he spends an awful lot of time being possessed.

[ajr.livejournal.com]

'Gridlock' was a horrible episode, with far too many things that were obviously STUPID, yet none of the characters seemed to think so. What, none of them thought it was funny that all the offramps were closed? None of them thought to override the automatics and try and find a way off manually - say, going up the onramps, which were obviously still open if Martha and friends could enter? And no-one noticed the giant crabs? Gah! Horrible episode.

You're far, far, far kinder about 'New Earth' than I would be.

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

I was less kind originally.

[ajr.livejournal.com]

I thought I'd written an invective-strewn creed, lambasting RTD for ripping off old ideas and stitching them together in a mish-mash of nonsense that had no business ever being filmed, let alone screened, but it appears I only thought that and never wrote it. Unless it was in a comment on someone else's LJ; if so, my chances of tracking it down by now must be near nil.

Which is a long way of saying you were still kinder than I would be. :)

[jinty]

How'm'I supposed to remember which one is which just from the titles? Surely links to some sort of episode guide is indicated in this sort pf poll.

/grumpy

[ajr.livejournal.com]

Ta-da!

HTH, HAND.

[jinty]

Yes, that is helpful, ta (though a) I've already voted and b) responsibility for it should devolve to the poll creator IMHO, bad Niall!).

Lack of this meant I only picked the episodes I could remember any thing at all about based on the title - may or may not be a relatively fair way of doing it, actually. I think I would given Bad Wolf a better mark if I'd not confused it with the actual season finale, though.

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Was it really?

HE FLEW A SPACESHIP OVER BUCKINGHAM PALACE AND THE QUEEN WISHED HIM A MERRY CHRISTMAS. And then the Total Bollocks Overdrive set in.

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Gridlock as best episode? What sort of crack are you smoking, people?

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

Yes but... The Runaway Bride. The Runaway Bride.

Okay, I admit it, there was a lot of TBO in Voyage of the Damned.

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

Maybe they really, really hated all the other choices.

[snowking.livejournal.com]

Some people's love of kittens exceeds even yours, Liz.

[snowking.livejournal.com]

HE FLEW A SPACESHIP OVER BUCKINGHAM PALACE AND THE QUEEN WISHED HIM A MERRY CHRISTMAS.

Man, that was awesome. I was sooo drunk by then.

[snowking.livejournal.com]

Really, you could have waited three weeks.

[abigail-n.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, even without the retconning of Donna's personality in the fourth season, there is no way The Runaway Bride is worse than Voyage of the Damned. There wasn't a single interesting or engaging moment in VotD, whereas at least some of the Doctor/Donna interactions and the glimpses of the Doctor's grief for Rose were watchable.

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten about the kittens. Really the episode should have had GIGANTIC KITTENS in the smog, rather than crabs.

[ajr.livejournal.com]

Yes. Or done it in two parts. First part: GOOD or BAD on all of them. Second part: select the best episode from those which fell on the side of good, the worst episode from those on the side of bad, and argue about Love & Monsters in the comments.