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POLL: What is your favourite Peter Capaldi story (so far)?
Chris_Hobbs
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Last year I created polls for every Doctor prior to Capaldi in order to find out your favourite story for each Doctor. This one is for the Twelfth Doctor's stories so far.
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This poll will be open for 7 days.
Please note: The poll can sometimes take a while to appear.
This poll will be open for 7 days.
What is your favourite Peter Capaldi story? 97 votes
Deep Breath
4%
4 votes
Into the Dalek
2%
2 votes
Robot of Sherwood
3%
3 votes
Listen
9%
9 votes
Time Heist
5%
5 votes
The Caretaker
3%
3 votes
Kill the Moon
1%
1 vote
Mummy on the Orient Express
31%
31 votes
Flatline
20%
20 votes
In the Forest of the Night
2%
2 votes
Dark Water & Death in Heaven
9%
9 votes
Last Christmas
8%
8 votes
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But I'd have to go with "Flatline". It just got so much right.
The monsters were inventive, well realized with the visuals, and I like how it touches on the idea that they are unwittingly hurting people, only to subvert it, which led to one of the best Doctor speeches of the whole show, which really cemented Capaldi in the role for me.
The gimmick of having the TARDIS shrink was not only an inventive way to get around a Doctor-light episode, but led to so much fun visual humour. Plus it gave way to one of Clara's better episodes; she was really likable in this one.
On top of all that, it touches on the arcing plot just enough without being intrusive, has fun supporting characters, its just dark enough, but most importantly of all, its fun fun, fun-fun Fun!!! And that's what really matters.
Thinks....
Voted Mummy on the Orient Express. Today.
Flatline is up there, and even for a supposedly Doctor-lite story, Capaldi shines. But it has to come down between Mummy and Listen.
What Listen does, it does really well. I've probably already watched it more than any episode since 2008. "Scared is a superpower" is perhaps my favourite 12 interaction. But Mummy does more and does it just as well. What a way to introduce a new writer to the series. So more of this please. A real romp.
Mummy on the Orient Express, it is!
I loved a lot of others too though!
ALL were better than the previous series dreary mixed-up plots!!
The beginning was quite creepy when the bloke using his phone ended up in the wall. Also, the 'monster' absorbing people and objects into the floor was a good effect. I felt a bit unnerved watching it. Doctor Who can do that sometimes, especially with iconic monsters like the Daleks and the Weeping Angels.
It's not the first time that The Tardis has been shrunk before. I saw the DVD of Logopolis in 2013, and I remember Tom Baker's Doctor's face, looking worried, after the Blue box was made smaller. Tegan and Nyssa tried to get the Doctor's attention by showing an equation to him, so the Tardis could get bigger again.
http://basementrejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/doctor-who-logopolis-shrunken-tardis.jpg
I'd put Last Christmas in second place. It was a hugely enjoyable special, which was unexpected because again, I wasn't really looking forward to watching it. In truth, I enjoyed all but a handful of episodes from Series 8 and hope Series 9 is better still. The Capaldi/Coleman pairing is my favourite since Tennant/Tate and I can't decide which I like the most (I guess it'll depend on how Series 9 unfolds) and Capaldi himself is my favourite Doctor since Eccleston
But I thought Flatline was truly dreadful, I'm genuinely surprised that anyone likes it at all. For me, it's as bad as Fear Her and In The Forest Of The Night. (I watched it twice, just to be sure I wasn't in a bad mood the first time round!)
Vive les differences, eh...
I think I'll go for Dark Water. A deliciously dark Python esque episode. Moffat's concept and dialogue is bang on the money.
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Mummy on the orient express comes a close second though.
My favourite episode for the performance of Capaldi is Deep Breath, with a close second perhaps being The Caretaker and then possibly Into the Dalek, an episode I didn't otherwise greatly care for.
Contenders for his best scene to date are, for me:
The restaurant scene in Deep Breath.
The showdown with the clockwork man in Deep Breath.
The opening TARDIS scene with Journey Blue in Into the Dalek.
The opening TARDIS scene with Maeve in Forest of the Night.
His first encounter with Danny Pink in The Caretaker.
The final scene of Mummy on the Orient Express, on the beach with Clara.
The Doctor pretending not to know, even though he does but then he doesn't because he can't remember, so a predicament but all gets sorted eventually. Clara, have faith in The Doctor, he knows what he is doing, sometimes.:D
Just rewatched this on iplayer. (Already voted for 'Mummy..' in the poll) Enjoyed it well enough on first viewing, but yeah...it is a rather terrific episode; great cast, clever writing, great direction/editing and Peter C rocks it. Think it might be a 'keeper'.
Nice to see that there are no episodes with No votes. Name your worst EVAH Who story. Well, someone out there liked it very much.