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Which non-Power of the Daleks story would you like to see an episode found from? This poll is closed. |
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| Marco Polo |
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36 | 20.69% |
| The Myth Makers |
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10 | 5.75% |
| The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve |
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45 | 25.86% |
| The Savages |
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2 | 1.15% |
| The Smugglers |
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2 | 1.15% |
| The Highlanders |
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45 | 25.86% |
| The Macra Terror |
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21 | 12.07% |
| Fury from the Deep |
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13 | 7.47% |
| Total: | 174 votes | ||
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"I'm sorry, I'm going to need to leave the office right now, there's a personal emergency. Power of the Daleks has been found."
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Apr 28, 2016 14:41
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“Look, I’m concerned about morale in this office. So we’re going to take the afternoon and watch this television episode called The Sun Makers…”
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Apr 28, 2016 15:27
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"I'm feeling incredibly neutral about everything so I'm leaving now to sit in a beige room and watch The Creature From The Pit" There's a thought - it's commonly accepted that no Who fans can agree on what's a good and what's a bad episode... can we agree on what the most average episode is?
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Apr 28, 2016 15:33
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No, we won't be able to. But I say The Lazarus Experiment, anyway.
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Apr 28, 2016 15:45
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pinacotheca posted:No, we won't be able to. But I say The Lazarus Experiment, anyway.
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Apr 28, 2016 15:59
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Fil5000 posted:can we agree on what the most average episode is? Something like Tooth & Claw? Frontios?
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Apr 28, 2016 16:04
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My second choice would probably be one of 42, the Silurians two-parter from Series 5, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship or The Power of Three.
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Apr 28, 2016 16:09
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Power of Three could never be an average episode just because of how rushed its ending is. And the entire ending.
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Apr 28, 2016 16:15
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Fil5000 posted:"I'm feeling incredibly neutral about everything so I'm leaving now to sit in a beige room and watch The Creature From The Pit" Probably something Tennant or Davison. Four to Doomsday or Black Orchid, maybe? 42 or Tooth and Claw? Something you can put on and say, "Yep, that's Doctor Who. That's certainly what this is."
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Apr 28, 2016 16:19
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Toph Bei Fong posted:Probably something Tennant or Davison. Four to Doomsday or Black Orchid, maybe? 42 or Tooth and Claw? Something you can put on and say, "Yep, that's Doctor Who. That's certainly what this is." Isn't Black Orchid the only story after, like, Hartnell in which there's really no alien threat and it's just a historical? That's pretty atypical. 42 is a pretty much perfect for most average revival episode. It's like they played Doctor Who mad libs and then filmed the result.
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Apr 28, 2016 16:24
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Burkion posted:Power of Three could never be an average episode just because of how rushed its ending is. And the entire ending. That's true! I was really just poking fun at Chris Chibnall with that post. Pertwee's got a few well-produced but hugely average stories, e.g. Colony in Space and Planet of the Daleks. Oh, and Planet of Fire for Davison. The Mysterious Planet for Colin.
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Apr 28, 2016 16:30
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Many of the season 15-16 Tom Baker stories just felt merely "Ok" to me. They had their moments, and they were sufficiently entertaining, but they weren't perfect - "The Sun Makers" and "Underworld," for example
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Apr 28, 2016 16:33
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Image of The FendahlWikipedia posted:At the end of Part Two the Doctor asks the Fendahl skull if it would like a jelly baby, but actually offers it a liquorice allsort. This was commented on in the 'Watchdog' segment of Nationwide; the Doctor Who production office replied by saying that this was one of the ways the Doctor liked to confuse his enemy. I had to look it up to remember the plot, and that's the most interesting thing in its wiki article. Big Mean Jerk fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Apr 28, 2016 |
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Apr 28, 2016 16:41
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pinacotheca posted:Oh, and Planet of Fire for Davison. Turlough's short-shorts and Peri's bikini are most certainly NOT average, thank you very much!
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Apr 28, 2016 16:45
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I was also thinking Davison, and Frontios was the one that sprung to mind. It's just THERE. And for the revival I was also thinking 42. Two episodes that exist.
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Apr 28, 2016 17:00
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CobiWann posted:Turlough's short-shorts and Peri's bikini are most certainly NOT average, thank you very much! Actually, the more I think about it (Peri talking in her sleep in the TARDIS, strangely-shaped artefacts, half the cast in swimwear, Peter Wyngarde), the less I'm sure that Planet of Fire is average in any way whatsoever. What was I thinking? (I was thinking of its science vs. religion subplot, which had already been done plenty of times on Who and always seems to just end up as a bunch of bearded men arguing with each other in cod-Shakespearean dialogue over the course of about two and a half hours, is what I was thinking.)
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Apr 28, 2016 17:08
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Sorry, Frontios owns. It's easily one of the most "lived-in universe" stories in the series. I can't really think of anything else where one of the challenges our heroes face is simply providing sufficient illumination for medical treatment, and little things like the phrase "deaths unaccounted for" feel more like something from the serialized sci-fi you wouldn't see for another 15 years. The Visitation is the most middling Davison story. It's Robert Holmes...ish. It's historical... kinda. The aliens have a plan... well, sort of... The only reason anyone remembers it at all is the destruction of the sonic screwdriver.
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Apr 28, 2016 17:16
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The Visitation is great. The Mutants, now there's a safely average story. Some good stuff, some bad stuff, some padding.
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Apr 28, 2016 17:20
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I thought of the Tennant story set in the 50's with the alien living in the TV that steals faces. It's so average that I cannot even remember the name of the episode. MrL_JaKiri posted:The Mutants, now there's a safely average story. Some good stuff, some bad stuff, some padding. Yeah, as far as Pertwee era goes this is pretty average. The Mind Of Evil might fit this as well.
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Apr 28, 2016 17:24
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FreezingInferno posted:I thought of the Tennant story set in the 50's with the alien living in the TV that steals faces. I believe The Idiot's Lantern? After The War posted:The Visitation is the most middling Davison story. It's Robert Holmes...ish. It's historical... kinda. The aliens have a plan... well, sort of... 
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Apr 28, 2016 17:26
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CobiWann posted:I believe The Idiot's Lantern? That's the one.
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Apr 28, 2016 17:29
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I like that I can't think of an average McCoy story. They just veer wildly from good to bad, or at best/most damning 'unique'. Happiness Patrol is probably the most middling but it's still very memorable.
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Apr 28, 2016 17:53
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It would probably be possible to scrape this thread and prior threads to find which episodes are the least frequently mentioned. There's your most mediocre. Anyway, Hide.
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Apr 28, 2016 20:10
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qntm posted:It would probably be possible to scrape this thread and prior threads to find which episodes are the least frequently mentioned. That's gonna be Terminus
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Apr 28, 2016 20:30
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At least it was, now it's The Sensorites
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Apr 28, 2016 20:30
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And now it's -ah bollocks
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Apr 28, 2016 20:30
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The one with the Mandrels?
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Apr 28, 2016 20:48
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Isn't Black Orchid the only story after, like, Hartnell in which there's really no alien threat and it's just a historical? That's pretty atypical. It is, but it's a fun character piece with Davison playing cricket and costume party in the past. It "feels" like Doctor Who without being particularly stand out or terrible.
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Apr 28, 2016 21:02
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Toph Bei Fong posted:It is, but it's a fun character piece with Davison playing cricket and costume party in the past. It "feels" like Doctor Who without being particularly stand out or terrible.
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Apr 28, 2016 21:33
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The_Doctor posted:I like that I can't think of an average McCoy story. They just veer wildly from good to bad, or at best/most damning 'unique'. Happiness Patrol is probably the most middling but it's still very memorable. Delta and the Bannerman is a pretty average serial for me, but I'm well aware I'm the only person that even kind of likes it. Dragonfire, too, maybe.
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Apr 29, 2016 00:14
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Rochallor posted:Delta and the Bannerman is a pretty average serial for me, but I'm well aware I'm the only person that even kind of likes it. Dragonfire, too, maybe. Hey, rule one of Doctor Who fandom always applies. For example I still think it's a goofy fairy tale fun time for the most part. It's all about a alien space-princess near-teen romance in a no-budget nowhere Welsh tourist trap, and there's an awkward proto-Ace, cheesy re-recorded 50's pop songs, and Roger Rabbit's Marvin Acme is an American "agent" of some sort. The whole thing is a puff pastry. But all I can ever remember from Dragonfire is Ace's arrival and  . Not even Sabalom Glitz's return made much of an impression.
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Apr 29, 2016 00:52
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Battlefield would be a pretty average story if it wasn't for the two Brigadiers being awesome characters
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Apr 29, 2016 01:13
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IceAgeComing posted:Battlefield would be a pretty average story if it wasn't for the two Brigadiers being awesome characters Eh, the idea of Bambera is better than the execution. Nothing wrong with how Angela Bruce portrays her, there's just not much on the page beyond 'punches people and makes out with pretty boy'.
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Apr 29, 2016 01:27
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The_Doctor posted:"I'm sorry, I'm going to need to leave the office right now, there's a personal emergency. Power of the Daleks has been found." Your Boss would never believe you because if that happened every television in the Commonwealth would automatically turn on, the Queen would appear and rasp,"The penultimate seal is broken, once Charles has died I can safely shed this mortal form  " and then a National Holiday would be declared.
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Apr 29, 2016 01:39
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Barry the Sprout posted:The one with the Mandrels? I like Nightmare of Eden.
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Apr 29, 2016 02:05
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Davros1 posted:I like Nightmare of Eden. What I love about English is that every so often you see a combination of words that have never been put together in that order before. Like the post I just quoted.
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Apr 29, 2016 02:10
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Jerusalem posted:What I love about English is that every so often you see a combination of words that have never been put together in that order before. Like the post I just quoted. 
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Apr 29, 2016 04:57
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My vote for most middling is the pirate episode from season 6.
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Apr 29, 2016 06:09
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Organza Quiz posted:My vote for most middling is the pirate episode from season 6. The Space Pirates only has one episode surviving, how would you know if it's middling?
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Apr 29, 2016 06:11
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CaptainYesterday posted:The Space Pirates only has one episode surviving, how would you know if it's middling? Yeah, but it's the middle one. Budumtish. Edit: nnnnnope. Episode 2 of 6.
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