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tardis_stowawayContinuing to play catch up with this TV meme, have the best and worst of New Who!
Day 6: Favorite episode of your favorite t.v show
This one's easy. My favorite episode of my favorite show is "The Doctor Dances." ("The Empty Child" is also really stupendous and part of the story, but I've decided to treat the halves of two-parters separately.)
I love this episode from tip to tail. It's got Nine, my Doctor, and the ever awesome Rose Tyler. Together with TEC, this ep introduced Captain Jack Harkness to the Whoniverse, and that alone would be enough to endear it to me. Nancy is one of my favorite guest characters. I love her determination and her mix of pessimism with humor. The dialog is endlessly quotable and sparklingly witty. (Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks 'this could be a little more sonic'? The empty child and the gas mask zombies are excellent monsters; I get shivers down my spine when I watch the scene where the characters play the recording of the child's voice and start having another conversation, only to realize that the tape has run out and they still hear the child. Eep! As scary as they are as monsters, I appreciate the fact that it turns out that there really aren't any monsters here, just a mistake from Jack that let loose some technology that didn't adapt to its current circumstances.
"The Doctor Dances" makes my shipper heart swell with joy. The UST between Nine and Rose reaches new heights. They are so absorbed in each other that they don't notice being teleported! They banter playfully. The intense looks between them are hot enough to melt steel. Of course, there is the eponymous dancing, and it's a thing of beauty. With Jack around to exponentially increase the amount of flirting in the TARDIS, we also have the beginnings of the Doctor/Rose/Jack ship. Huzzah!
The most important reason TDD ranks as my favorite ep is the ending. Nancy's admission of the truth and embrace of her son is moving on its own, but it gets even better when Nine discovers that the nanogenes are able to heal the boy and fix everybody else. Nine carried so much pain, making it particularly wonderful to see the Doctor's most broken incarnation become so jubilant. I enjoy the darker aspects of NuWho, but part of the payoff for all that angst is witnessing its reversal when the Doctor throws his arms in the air and exclaims "just this once, everybody lives!" Jack might have nearly destroyed the Earth, but it was unintentional, and this episode didn't make him follow through with his willingness to pay for his mistake with his life. (Nine's time was all about second chances.) Instead, Jack got to join the Doctor and Rose, completing my favorite Team TARDIS ever. The ending was extraordinarily happy, but every drop of that happiness felt earned by the characters' passage through the darkness and their growth.
Here, enjoy a sample from near the ending of TDD:
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite t.v show
"Love and Monsters" is a contender due to the extreme cringeworthiness of the monster and the situation with Ursula in the paving stone, not to mention the extremely annoying personality of Elton, but Jackie Tyler's speech about those left behind saves this from the very bottom of my list. That dishonor has to go to "The Evolution of the Daleks." The first half of this two-parter, "Daleks in Manhattan," is also lousy, and many of the problems (pig slaves, lousy American accents, Daleks' scheme even stupider than usual) are shared between both halves of the story. DiM is arguably worse than EotD because it's more forgettable and dull, but EotD is more spectacularly bad. The plot is so over the top, and not in a good way. I can believe something of a death wish in S3 Ten, but the Doctor's screaming at the Daleks to kill him was too much. This episode has some of the worst science in all of the nonsense science of DW (DNA transferred though a lightning strike? wtf?) The human-Dalek hybrid develops a conscience, which would been a decent idea if the human in the mix hadn't been such a scoundrel that I found the Dalek's transformation completely unbelievable. Really, this picture is reason enough to put this ep in the bottom of my DW list:
Worst creature design ever.
The Dalek turning its eyestalk from side to side before having a covert conversation was pretty great, however. Even a really bad ep of Doctor Who isn't without redeeming moments.
Let's not close thinking about Evolution of the Daleks. It's much better to end by watching the Doctor dance. I never get tired of watching this.
Day 01 - A show that should have never been canceled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show ( aired this t.v season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite t.v show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite t.v show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you’ve watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best t.v show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First t.v show obsession
Day 29 - Current t.v show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
Day 6: Favorite episode of your favorite t.v show
This one's easy. My favorite episode of my favorite show is "The Doctor Dances." ("The Empty Child" is also really stupendous and part of the story, but I've decided to treat the halves of two-parters separately.)
I love this episode from tip to tail. It's got Nine, my Doctor, and the ever awesome Rose Tyler. Together with TEC, this ep introduced Captain Jack Harkness to the Whoniverse, and that alone would be enough to endear it to me. Nancy is one of my favorite guest characters. I love her determination and her mix of pessimism with humor. The dialog is endlessly quotable and sparklingly witty. (Who looks at a screwdriver and thinks 'this could be a little more sonic'? The empty child and the gas mask zombies are excellent monsters; I get shivers down my spine when I watch the scene where the characters play the recording of the child's voice and start having another conversation, only to realize that the tape has run out and they still hear the child. Eep! As scary as they are as monsters, I appreciate the fact that it turns out that there really aren't any monsters here, just a mistake from Jack that let loose some technology that didn't adapt to its current circumstances.
"The Doctor Dances" makes my shipper heart swell with joy. The UST between Nine and Rose reaches new heights. They are so absorbed in each other that they don't notice being teleported! They banter playfully. The intense looks between them are hot enough to melt steel. Of course, there is the eponymous dancing, and it's a thing of beauty. With Jack around to exponentially increase the amount of flirting in the TARDIS, we also have the beginnings of the Doctor/Rose/Jack ship. Huzzah!
The most important reason TDD ranks as my favorite ep is the ending. Nancy's admission of the truth and embrace of her son is moving on its own, but it gets even better when Nine discovers that the nanogenes are able to heal the boy and fix everybody else. Nine carried so much pain, making it particularly wonderful to see the Doctor's most broken incarnation become so jubilant. I enjoy the darker aspects of NuWho, but part of the payoff for all that angst is witnessing its reversal when the Doctor throws his arms in the air and exclaims "just this once, everybody lives!" Jack might have nearly destroyed the Earth, but it was unintentional, and this episode didn't make him follow through with his willingness to pay for his mistake with his life. (Nine's time was all about second chances.) Instead, Jack got to join the Doctor and Rose, completing my favorite Team TARDIS ever. The ending was extraordinarily happy, but every drop of that happiness felt earned by the characters' passage through the darkness and their growth.
Here, enjoy a sample from near the ending of TDD:
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite t.v show
"Love and Monsters" is a contender due to the extreme cringeworthiness of the monster and the situation with Ursula in the paving stone, not to mention the extremely annoying personality of Elton, but Jackie Tyler's speech about those left behind saves this from the very bottom of my list. That dishonor has to go to "The Evolution of the Daleks." The first half of this two-parter, "Daleks in Manhattan," is also lousy, and many of the problems (pig slaves, lousy American accents, Daleks' scheme even stupider than usual) are shared between both halves of the story. DiM is arguably worse than EotD because it's more forgettable and dull, but EotD is more spectacularly bad. The plot is so over the top, and not in a good way. I can believe something of a death wish in S3 Ten, but the Doctor's screaming at the Daleks to kill him was too much. This episode has some of the worst science in all of the nonsense science of DW (DNA transferred though a lightning strike? wtf?) The human-Dalek hybrid develops a conscience, which would been a decent idea if the human in the mix hadn't been such a scoundrel that I found the Dalek's transformation completely unbelievable. Really, this picture is reason enough to put this ep in the bottom of my DW list:
Worst creature design ever.
The Dalek turning its eyestalk from side to side before having a covert conversation was pretty great, however. Even a really bad ep of Doctor Who isn't without redeeming moments.
Let's not close thinking about Evolution of the Daleks. It's much better to end by watching the Doctor dance. I never get tired of watching this.
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite t.v show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you’ve watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best t.v show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First t.v show obsession
Day 29 - Current t.v show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
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Date: 2010-06-14 03:16 pm (UTC)Oh god, that Dalek two-parter was godawful. So bad. Love and Monsters was also hideous- Ursula's fate was just disgusting, and the fact they made a joke about it- so wrong.
(By the way, the image you're linking to is showing a no- hotlinking message rather than the picture)
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Date: 2010-06-14 05:19 pm (UTC)Image should be fixed now. Got tired and lazy, sorry.
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Date: 2010-06-14 07:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-06-14 08:02 pm (UTC)