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POLL: What is your favourite David Tennant story?


View Poll Results: What is your favourite David Tennant story?
Born Again (Children in Need 2005) 0 0%
The Christmas Invasion (Christmas 2005) 0 0%
New Earth 0 0%
Tooth and Claw 0 0%
School Reunion 3 2.54%
The Girl in the Fireplace 12 10.17%
Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel 0 0%
The Idiot's Lantern 0 0%
The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit 5 4.24%
Love and Monsters 0 0%
Fear Her 0 0%
Army of Ghosts / Doomsday 5 4.24%
The Runaway Bride (Christmas 2006) 1 0.85%
Smith and Jones 0 0%
The Shakespeare Code 0 0%
Gridlock 3 2.54%
Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks 1 0.85%
The Lazarus Experiment 0 0%
42 0 0%
Human Nature / The Family of Blood 14 11.86%
Blink 20 16.95%
Utopia 2 1.69%
The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords 1 0.85%
Time Crash (Children in Need 2007) 1 0.85%
Voyage of the Damned (Christmas 2007) 1 0.85%
Partners in Crime 0 0%
The Fires of Pompeii 0 0%
Planet of the Ood 0 0%
The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky 0 0%
The Doctor's Daughter 0 0%
The Unicorn and the Wasp 3 2.54%
Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead 9 7.63%
Midnight 7 5.93%
Turn Left 6 5.08%
The Stolen Earth / Journey's End 14 11.86%
The Next Doctor (Christmas 2008) 0 0%
Planet of the Dead 0 0%
The Waters of Mars 9 7.63%
The End of Time 1 0.85%
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Old 20-02-2014, 20:43
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I am running a number of polls to discover the favourite story for each Doctor. This one is for the Tenth Doctor.

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Old 20-02-2014, 20:57
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Blink
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Old 20-02-2014, 20:59
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Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead for me, definately.
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Old 20-02-2014, 21:11
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'Blink' is technically the best but my personal favourite is probably 'Midnight'.

It's a very hit and miss era for me. Others I particularly enjoyed are 'Silence in the Library', 'The Unicorn and the Wasp' and 'Love & Monsters'.
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Old 20-02-2014, 21:17
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For me Gridlock.
I like the scene where Martha makes the Doctor tell her about Gallifrey.
Also the death of Boe is a good scene
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Old 20-02-2014, 21:24
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The Girl in the Fireplace, everytime
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Old 20-02-2014, 21:44
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I went with Human Nature/Family of Blood. He had to play out of his element for the majority of the episodes and then once the Doctor was restored was able to deal with the Family as the Doctor.
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Old 20-02-2014, 22:28
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Human Nature/The Family of Blood - my favorite episode ever - Simply the Best!
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Old 20-02-2014, 22:41
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Blink or Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead. I'll decide who to vote for when it's clear which of them needs my vote the most.
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Old 20-02-2014, 22:41
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What I like about Tennant's stories is that there is a huge variety in them and also in the standard of stories as well.

I would say bottom of the pile for me are stories like Love and Monsters, Fear Her, most of the 2009 Specials. Then there's the ok-to-watch stories like Daleks in Manhattan, Gridlock, New Earth and then there's really enjoyable ones like the first half of Series 2, Turn Left, Midnight, The Unicorn and The Wasp.

Then there's the real amazing Episodes like Blink, Human Nature/Family Of Blood, Stolen Earth/Journey's End and off course my personal fave, Army Of Ghosts/Doomsday.

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Old 20-02-2014, 22:56
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I couldn't pick a favourite. There are far too many. At best I could narrow it down to...

The Christmas Invasion
The Satan Pit
Love and Monsters
Gridlock
Family of Blood
Blink
Utopia
The Sound of Drums
Silence/Forest
The Waters of Mars
and special mention for Time Crash

as such I haven't voted.
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Old 20-02-2014, 23:27
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Shouldn't The Day of The Doctor be listed on the poll? Apologies if I've got that wrong. Only, 10 accosting the rabbit in the forest is my favourite scene he's in!
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Old 21-02-2014, 02:42
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I voted for "The Waters of Mars" although I also really like the various Doctor/Donna episodes along with "The Next Doctor", "The Voyage of the Damned", "42" and others.
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Old 21-02-2014, 09:01
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Shouldn't The Day of The Doctor be listed on the poll? Apologies if I've got that wrong. Only, 10 accosting the rabbit in the forest is my favourite scene he's in!
Sorry but I did not include The Day of the Doctor because that is a part of Elevens era. Eleven is the main Doctor in that story and as such it belongs in the Matt Smith poll.
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Old 21-02-2014, 09:21
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Sorry but I did not include The Day of the Doctor because that is a part of Elevens era. Eleven is the main Doctor in that story and as such it belongs in the Matt Smith poll.
No worries - I'll vote for The Waters of Mars instead
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Old 21-02-2014, 09:56
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Really hard, this one. After the Pertwee era, this is my favourite era of the show and there were very few eps I didn't like. Went for The Girl In The Fireplace, though.
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Old 21-02-2014, 11:15
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Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead. The Stig was brilliant in this
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Old 21-02-2014, 11:26
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A toughie. Between Gridlock and Turn Left, the latter largely because I think it's the best performance by a companion in the show's history. To quote 10cc..."Oohh, Donna."

Er...going with Gridlock. Offbeat, rather beautiful and Tennant at his best.
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Old 21-02-2014, 13:09
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Girl in the Fireplace for me. A lovely story.

Human Nature and Blink were also great and I have a soft spot for School Reunion and the Doctor's Daughter.
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Old 21-02-2014, 13:24
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Very, very hard but for positive reasons as there were so many episodes that I can watch over and over. Went for "Human Nature" in the end, partly because you can believe that John Smith and the Doctor are different individuals; the same in the change in Harry Lloyd from complete twerp to 'Son-of-Mine'. Then it was expertly set, the supporting characters were interesting and had relevance and meaning to the story. I know the ending (the vengeance) jarred with some, but for me it was again a brilliant contrast to see the Doctor taking action.
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Old 21-02-2014, 16:24
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Stolen earth/journey's end. A wonderfully intricate yet easy to understand plot, carefully woven throughout series 4, and also encapsulating the best element's of all 4 year's that came before it, that combined to make a story that was bold, epic, happy, sad, funny, and exciting.
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Old 22-02-2014, 14:53
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David Tennant's era of the show is like Tom Baker's from the classic series for me, so many to choose from even picking my favourite from each individual series usually taxes me quite hard. I went for Human Nature/The Family of Blood, just seeing the Doctor as a human, the chameleon arch, the school surroundings, the Journal of Impossible Things. I just love it all. It just sneaks in ahead of so many good stories such as Blink, The Army of Ghosts/Doomsday, The Girl in the Fireplace, Turn Left and countless more.
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Old 22-02-2014, 18:26
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Okay, who voted for Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks? Come on, WHO?

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Old 22-02-2014, 19:37
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It's quite a fun little romp if you don't take it too seriously.

I didn't vote for it though. I went with Silence in the Library. When the first expedition member gets it, and you hear his memory chip run out, that is honestly some of the creepiest OMG crap I've seen on TV in years.

It was a very VERY close call though with Family of Blood and Midnight. I'd forgotten how good Family of Blood was. I loved the scene at the end. That sent a chill up the old spine. "Fury of a Timelord" indeed. Midnight is just something else entirely. It's more like a proper Science Fiction Play for Today than an episode of Doctor Who. It's in the same class as Torchwood's Children of Earth.

I also love Gridlock and even Partners in Crime (tell me you don't smile at the 'Window scene').

Also blown away by the last 10 minutes of Utopia, but that isn't really a Tennant thing

I didn't rate Journey's End too highly. Nice build-up, but the ending sucked.
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Old 22-02-2014, 19:51
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It's quite a fun little romp if you don't take it too seriously.
I was just teasing. Just because I (and many others) thought it an abomination, doesn't mean everyone has to feel the same.



I also love Gridlock and even Partners in Crime (tell me you don't smile at the 'Window scene').
I didn't smile at that scene at all. Thought it was terrible 'sketch show comedy' that Tate is [in]famous for. Liked her much more in the dramatic scenes, where I thought she acted the arse off Tennant many times (but that's another story). Prefer my laughs in Doctor Who to come from humorous dialogue and to be far more subtle...a Moffat speciality.
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