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Moffat's Best Episode
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rollgeorge
29-10-2014
I'm glad that this thread has been bumped up above that thread with the similar name...

Anyhow, best Moff scripts... lot's to choose from, but his best probably still remain the scripts he did under RTD. Blink is phenomenally good. I still to this day use it as an introductory episode for friends who've not seen any Who before, and it always goes down well. The two 2-parters he did under RTD's reign were also brilliant. Girl in the Fireplace to a less extent in my view - although still very good.

During his own era I think Listen from the present series is probably the first episode he's written that I think is of the same caliber as his RTD era stuff. I'd probably actually rank it a cut above Girl in the Fireplace.
Antimon_Bush
29-10-2014
Most of them deserve to be here because even 'not-so-good' Moffat's stories are very good compared to average stories...
Anyway, here is my top 5:

1. Listen
2. Pandorica Opens / Big Bang
3. The Snowmen
4. Blink
5. The Name of the Doctor

Honorable mentions to: The Day of the Doctor, Library two-parter, The Girl in the Fireplace, Eleventh Hour, Astronaut two-parter...
Granny McSmith
29-10-2014
Originally Posted by LightMeUp:
“As said before, Girl In The Fireplace - and I'll probably be lynched for it but it's such a lovely bittersweet episode.”

I'll be lynched with you then - I love this episode. I love the two leads, and I even love Rose and Mickey - and the horse.

In fact I love nearly all the episodes mentioned on this thread, though, oddly, I've gone off Blink a bit. This series, Listen just knocked my socks off.
doublefour
29-10-2014
Originally Posted by Granny McSmith:
“I'll be lynched with you then - I love this episode. I love the two leads, and I even love Rose and Mickey - and the horse.

In fact I love nearly all the episodes mentioned on this thread, though, oddly, I've gone off Blink a bit. This series, Listen just knocked my socks off.”

My favourite too, it is the episode I still get the same amount of joy than when I first watched it. The horse, Tennant's pretend drunk scene, the soundtrack are all among many others excellent. I just think it is such a beautifully crafted episode all round.

After this one I like all his stories/episodes before he became head writer/show runner, Asylum of the Daleks is a cracker from his later episodes.
LightMeUp
29-10-2014
Originally Posted by Granny McSmith:
“I'll be lynched with you then - I love this episode. I love the two leads, and I even love Rose and Mickey - and the horse.

In fact I love nearly all the episodes mentioned on this thread, though, oddly, I've gone off Blink a bit. This series, Listen just knocked my socks off.”

Oh good it's nice to be agreed with . Yeah The Girl in the Fireplace pretty much floors me every time I see it. I'm not too crazy about Rose in this episode and Tennant's drunk acting sort of annoys me now but it all doesn't really matter in comparison to the crux of the actual story. And that is the connection that The Doctor and Reinette had. Even though it all happened so fast you still felt the weight of what they meant to each other, and that's not easy to do. You believed every word.

And Listen, well, for me it's the perfect Doctor Who episode. Such a wonderful idea and absolutely brilliantly acted. Jenna Coleman made it for me, she gave me goosebumps in that barn and I feel exactly the same with every rewatch. And I've rewatched it a lot! The Doctor chasing an irrational fear is a genius idea. Moffat can get away with River Song ridiculousness as long as he still has the ability to write like this.
Granny McSmith
29-10-2014
Originally Posted by LightMeUp:
“ And that is the connection that The Doctor and Reinette had. Even though it all happened so fast you still felt the weight of what they meant to each other, and that's not easy to do. You believed every word.

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I believe I read somewhere (probably on here!) that Tennant and Sophie Myles were actually an item at the time of filming. They certainly had some chemistry going there.
jodo
29-10-2014
Hard to choose a favourite two-parter although I think 'Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead' just takes it for me as idea, plot, execution and characterisation are all top drawer.

As for single episode I never tire of 'the Girl in the Fireplace'.

When he hits the mark Moffat is very hard to beat and even when he doesn't his episodes are always interesting (apart from The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe which was dreadful in all aspects).
alphonsus
30-10-2014
I've mentioned elsewhere, but it's only fair i join the 'official' thread. So, in descending order:

The Day of the Doctor
(The Night of the Doctor)
The Time of Angels (but not Flesh and Stone)
Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead
The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances on a par with The Girl in the Fireplace
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