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Old 05-06-2013, 19:08
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SERIES 1
BEST: Dalek (The only time a Dalek has ever seemed menacing on NuWho.)
WORST: (Tie) Aliens of London / World War Three / Boomtown (Slitheen = Fail. Always.)

SERIES 2
BEST: School Reunion ((S)Laden with so much tension & love & gravitas.)
WORST: The Idiots Lantern (Spoilt for choice in S2. Who is least scary? Peter Kay? A little girl? Or Maureen Lipman. Ugh.)

SERIES 3
BEST: Human Nature / Family of Blood (Freema's Finest Hour. RTD ought to be ashamed of himself for Rose'ing Martha to death)
WORST: The Lazarus Experiment (Mark Gattis can't act. Can't write. Oh, and Francine Jones? Jackie Tyler, you are not.)

SERIES 4
BEST: Turn Left (An epic, sweeping love letter to the Nobels. Catherine Tate has never shone as brightly.)
WORST: The Sontarem Stratagem / Poison Sky (A mess from start to finish. Just appalling.)

SPECIALS
BEST: Waters Of Mars (The Doctor flips out. The heroine blows her brains out. Surely the Darkest Story since Who returned.)
WORST: Planet of The Dead (Flies. Unimaginable Heat. Public Transport. An annoying woman. Essentially, it was the story of every rush hour on the Tube.)

SERIES 5
BEST: Vincent & The Doctor (Beautifully poignient.)
WORST: Victory of The Daleks (Everything about the mess offended me. Mark Gattis needs shooting.)

SERIES 6
BEST: The Girl Who Waited (Heartbreaking & beautifully realised. An Amy & Rory Tour de Force.)
WORST: (Tie) Night Terrors / The Wedding of River Song (Children aren't scary. / The Moffatiest of Moffat Messes by far. Incomprehensible crap strung together on ludicrous set-pieces.)

SERIES 7
BEST: The Power of Three (A treat. A lovely insight into the Ponds life - which the Doctor gorgeously can't cope with.)
WORST: The Rings of Akhaten (Took all the ingredients of a good Who episode - then overcooked them, into a toxic unforgivable, cheesey, appallingly scripted car crash. Not even Matt Smith could salvage it.)

XMAS SPECIALS
BEST: Runaway Bride (Donna. The start of someone very special. "Come on!" - "I am IN my Wedding Dress!!!" - "Yes! You look lovely! Come on!!!")
WORST: The Doctor, The Widow & The Wardrobe (A Moffat Mess.)
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Old 06-06-2013, 01:01
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I use the term "worst" loosely since I generally fine it hard to really dislike things, so I'll just be using stories that I didn't like as much as the others, which is difficult to really choose in most seasons/series.

So here's my Best/Worst list for the show (both Classic and New)

(First story listed will be the best, while the second will be the "worst")

Classic Who
Season 1: The Aztecs/The Reign of Terror
Season 2: The Dalek Invasion of Earth/The Giant Planet
Season 3: The Celestial Toymaker/Mission to the Unknown
Season 4: The Evil of the Daleks/The Faceless Ones
Season 5: Tomb of the Cybermen/Fury from the Deep
Season 6: The War Games/The Space Pirates
Season 7: Inferno/The Ambassadors of Death
Season 8: Claws of Axos/Colony in Space
Season 9: The Curse of Peladon/The Mutants
Season 10: The Three Doctors/Planet of the Daleks
Season 11: Planet of the Spiders/Death to the Daleks
Season 12: Genesis of the Daleks/The Sontaran Experiment
Season 13: The Brain of Morbius/The Seeds of Doom
Season 14: The Talons of Weng-Chiang/The Masque of Mandragora
Season 15: The Sunmakers/Invasion of Time
Season 16: The Pirate Planet/The Power of Kroll
Season 17: City of Death/Nightmare of Eden
Season 18: The Keeper of Trakken/The Leisure Hive
Season 19: Earthshock/The Black Orchid
Season 20: Enlightenment/The King's Demon
Season 21: The Caves of Androzani/The Awakening
Season 22: Vengeance of Varos/Timelash
Season 23: Mindwarp/The Ultimate Enemy
Season 24: Delta and the Bannermen/Time and the Rani
Season 25: The Happiness Patrol/Silver Nemesis
Season 26: Battlefield/Ghostlight

Eight Doctor Adventures (Since Eight only had the movie, I'll be using his own series from Big Finish)
Season 1: No More Lies/Phobos
Season 2: Max Warp/Dead London
Season 3: The Cannibalist/Wirrn Dawn
Season 4: Lucie Miller-To The Death/The Book of Kells

New Who
Series 1: Dalek/The Long Game
Series 2: The Girl in the Fireplace/New Earth
Series 3: Human Nature-The Family of Blood/The Lazuras Experiment
Series 4/Specials: Silence in the Library-Forest of the Dead/The Stolen Earth-Jounrey's End
Series 5: The Pandorica Opens-The Big Bang/The Beast Below
Series 6: The Doctor's Wife/The Curse of the Black Spot
Series 7: The Name of the Doctor/The Power of Three
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Old 06-06-2013, 02:52
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Fear Her is by far, one of the worst DW stories since the show came back in 2005. I have my parents to vouch for that!

Also, The Lazarus Experiment wasn't very good. Neither was Bad Wolf. The Parting of the Ways was much better. Jo Joyner is much better playing Tanya Cross in EE. Her hair in DW! I wonder who thought of doing her hair like that?

The best episodes have to be Blink, 42, Daleks in Manhatten/Eveloution of the Daleks, Army of Ghosts/Doomsday, Eleventh Hour, Victory of the Daleks, the one with the cube invasion, A good Man Goes to War, World War Three, and Boom Town. I did enjoy Planet of the Ood. Also, the Agatha Christie one was not bad, either.

Lastly, I thought the Stolen Earth was great as was The End of Time Part 2. "I'm still not ginger!" A funny line from Matt's Dr.
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Old 07-06-2013, 22:38
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Bump again.
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Old 08-06-2013, 19:10
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SERIES 1
BEST: Dalek (The only time a Dalek has ever seemed menacing on NuWho.)
WORST: (Tie) Aliens of London / World War Three / Boomtown (Slitheen = Fail. Always.)

SERIES 2
BEST: School Reunion ((S)Laden with so much tension & love & gravitas.)
WORST: The Idiots Lantern (Spoilt for choice in S2. Who is least scary? Peter Kay? A little girl? Or Maureen Lipman. Ugh.)

SERIES 3
BEST: Human Nature / Family of Blood (Freema's Finest Hour. RTD ought to be ashamed of himself for Rose'ing Martha to death)
WORST: The Lazarus Experiment (Mark Gattis can't act. Can't write. Oh, and Francine Jones? Jackie Tyler, you are not.)

SERIES 4
BEST: Turn Left (An epic, sweeping love letter to the Nobels. Catherine Tate has never shone as brightly.)
WORST: The Sontarem Stratagem / Poison Sky (A mess from start to finish. Just appalling.)

SPECIALS
BEST: Waters Of Mars (The Doctor flips out. The heroine blows her brains out. Surely the Darkest Story since Who returned.)
WORST: Planet of The Dead (Flies. Unimaginable Heat. Public Transport. An annoying woman. Essentially, it was the story of every rush hour on the Tube.)

SERIES 5
BEST: Vincent & The Doctor (Beautifully poignient.)
WORST: Victory of The Daleks (Everything about the mess offended me. Mark Gattis needs shooting.)

SERIES 6
BEST: The Girl Who Waited (Heartbreaking & beautifully realised. An Amy & Rory Tour de Force.)
WORST: (Tie) Night Terrors / The Wedding of River Song (Children aren't scary. / The Moffatiest of Moffat Messes by far. Incomprehensible crap strung together on ludicrous set-pieces.)

SERIES 7
BEST: The Power of Three (A treat. A lovely insight into the Ponds life - which the Doctor gorgeously can't cope with.)
WORST: The Rings of Akhaten (Took all the ingredients of a good Who episode - then overcooked them, into a toxic unforgivable, cheesey, appallingly scripted car crash. Not even Matt Smith could salvage it.)

XMAS SPECIALS
BEST: Runaway Bride (Donna. The start of someone very special. "Come on!" - "I am IN my Wedding Dress!!!" - "Yes! You look lovely! Come on!!!")
WORST: The Doctor, The Widow & The Wardrobe (A Moffat Mess.)
I may have disagreed with a lot of your choices, but I find all your explanations absolutely brilliant
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Old 10-06-2013, 21:30
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Old 27-12-2014, 11:50
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Series 1

Best: Dalek
Worst: Boom Town

Series 2

Best: Army of Ghosts/Doomsday
Worst: Fear Her

Series 3

Best: Blink
Worst: The Shakespeare's Code

Series 4

Best: The Stolen Earth/Journey's End
Worst: The Doctor's Daughter

Series 5

Best: The Lodger
Worst: Vampires from Venice

Series 6

Best: A Good Man Goes To War
Worst: The Girl who Waited

Series 7

Best: The Power of Three
Worst: The Rings of Arkhaten

Series 8

Best: Dark Water/Death In Heaven
Worst: Kill the Moon

Specials

Best: The Day of the Doctor
Worst: The Planet of the Dead

Christmas

Best: The End of Time
Worst: A Christmas Carol
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Old 27-12-2014, 13:19
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Season 1

Best: The Keys of Marinus
Worst: The Aztecs

Season 2

Best: The Time Meddler
Worst: The Dalek Invasion of Earth

Season 3

Best: The Ark
Worst: Galaxy 4

Season 4

Haven't seen enough

Season 5

Best: The Web of Fear
Worst: The Ice Warriors (still like this story)

Season 6

Best: The Invasion
Worst: The War Games (still like this story)

Season 7

Best: Inferno
Worst: The Silurians (Season 7 is Brilliant)

Season 8

Best: Deamons
Worst: Colony in Space

Season 9

Best: The Curse of Peladon
Worst: The Mutants

Season 10

Best: Frontier in Space
Worst: Planet of the Daleks

Season 11

Best: Death to the Daleks
Worst: Planet of the Spiders

Season 12

Best: Genesis of the Dalkes
Worst: The Sontaran Experiment

Season 13

Best: Terror of the Zygons
Worst: Seeds of Doom

Season 14

Best: Robots of Death
Worst: [The Masque of Mangragana

Season 15

Best: The Sun Makers
Worst: Horror of the Fang Rock

Season 16

Best: The Power of Kroll
Worst: The Ribos Operation

Season 17

Best: City of Death
Worst: The Creature from the Pit

Season 18

Haven't seen enough

Season 19

Haven't seen enough

Season 20

Best: The Five Doctors
Worst: Terminus

Season 21

Best: Resurrection of the Daleks
Worst: Planet of Fire

Season 22

Best: Revelation of the Daleks
Worst: The Two Doctors

Season 23

Best: The Trail of a Timelord: Terror of the Vervoids
Worst: The Trail of a Timelord: Mindwarp

Season 24

Haven't seen enough

Season 25

Best: Remembrance of the Daleks
Worst: Silver Nemesis

Season 26

Haven't seen enough
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