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The Curse of Fenric is objectively perfection on an atomic level but we all have the right to our wrong opinions. Just kidding. You are valid. I consider The Key to Time arc and Season along with season 7-10 about as good as classic Doctor Who gets.
Additional point: Richard Hurndall was great in The Five Doctors.
None of this is meant to actually anger anyone just to start conversations.
Genesis of the Daleks while good is not in the top 4 classic dalek stories.
There would be nothing wrong with an actor not originally from the UK playing the Doctor. I think the Doctor's default status should be British coded but so long as a non Brit played the part with a convincing accent I see no issue. Rhys Darby could keep his accent.
Eric Roberts is a great Master both onscreen and in Big Finish.
While poorly executed in the 1996 movie the Doctor being half human isn't a bad idea and works as an effective way to retcon inconsistency in how the Doctor's species was portrayed in his first 2 TV incarnations.
Patrick Troughton was a better Doctor than Tom Baker and had he stayed longer as well as had more surviving episodes that would be the general fan consensus.
Big Finish does the right amount of multi Doctor stories. A lot of people complain about them overdoing it but seeing as the actors aren't immortal and its side content for committed fans it makes sense to make a lot.
Introducing a regeneration limit in The Deadly Assassin was a bad idea. So long as the Doctor can be permanently killed by something there is no need for any sort of arbitrary limit.
It Takes You Away is a modern classic.
Despite some problems Series 6 is the best season so far of New Who.
The Long Game is a really good episode with fun world building and and an interesting companion dynamic with Adam.
Love and Monsters is genuinely good. I'm not even saying it's so bad it's good. It's just funny when it's trying to be funny and touching when it's trying to be touching. The only criticism I'd give it is the Jackie and Elton relationship feels a bit detached from everything else the Abzorbaloff could have been slightly toned down.
The Rani has never had a good story on TV.
The sonic screwdriver is currently used a perfectly reasonable amount for kind of stories that tend to be told.
Out of the four TV stories featuring Weeping Angels as primary villains (Blink, Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone, The Angels Take Manhattan and Village of the Angels) Blink is the weakest. Yes I realize the Statue of Liberty being an angel makes no sense. That's not me bashing Blink I just prefer my Doctor Who with more Doctor and I feel like later stories benefited from having the angels as a pre established threat.
Scott Alan Woodard (The Juggernauts etc.)
Jody Houser (main writer of thirteenth Doctor comics)
Jonathan Blum (The Fearmonger etc)
Lloyd Rose (Camera Obscura etc)
An Unearthly Child (Part 1 is by far the best and if I was ranking the rest of the story separately it it would be lower.
The Keys of Marinus (among the best of Hartnell's stories)
The Reign of Terror (The only historical of this season not to be racist)
The Sensorites (Could have taken the number 2 spot if only it was 2 episodes shorter. This is Susan's best appearance as a character aside from the first episode of An Unearthly Child.)
The Daleks (Obviously iconic but very slow and unfocused. It's a story with a lot of good ideas and some really great moments peppered throughout)
The Aztecs (if it wasn't full of brownface it would be ranked higher. The story is surprisingly not as condescending as you'd expect to indigenous people but still. Ultimately it's a fun story and Cameca and the Doctor's relationship is great)
Marco Polo (Apparently beautiful from set photos and obviously done with some real style based on the short reconstruction I've seen but in my view more racist than The Aztecs. I can't really judge it fairly until it's found by some miracle or animated)
The Edge of Destruction (not terrible but clearly filler and it doesn't fit super well with the tone/vibe of the rest of the season or the show as a whole)
I like Jodie as the Doctor. What I don't like is most of series 11 which is very boring in my opinion (save a couple episodes) and I think gave a lot of people a bad impression of the new incarnation. I also think Chibnall has played it a little too safe with characterization because she's the first woman Doctor. This Doctor rarely gets to get super intense or really mess up in a dark and shameful way. She doesn't do a lot that is new. In many ways she feels like a modern Peter Davison. I also like Davison but more in Big Finish. Hopefully Whittaker has a future with Big Finish.
The TV movie being made by Americans wasn't why it was bad. The problem was their were too many voices and no real driving vision. The movie was written and directed by British people. People only blame Americans for its faults because we're an easy scapegoat in this situation. All that said there's still a lot to like in the finish product.
The Gunfighters, Black Orchid and Hide are pretty weak in my opinion but I definitely see the appeal in The Gunfighters and Hide.
1. The Keys of Marinus
2. The Mind Robber
3. Frontier in Space
4. The Pirate Planet
5. Enlightenment
6. Vengeance on Varos
7. The Curse of Fenric
8. Night of the Doctor
9. Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways
10. Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead
11. The Doctor's Wife
12. Heaven Sent
13. Fugitive of the Judoon
Whovian7 if you're trying to prove something to a friend I really wouldn't be posting your poll in this wiki. Also I know it's not my job to tell people how many polls to post but this whole discussion board has way too many polls in my opinion. A lot of them (not this one) seem to just be the same few polls over and over again.
This list is based on personal preference and only include stories I consider to be "dalek stories" so some episodes with dalek cameos or daleks in a role that define the plot in some way aren't included. A good example of a story I'm not including would be Day of the Doctor.
Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways
The Stolen Earth/Journey's End
Dalek (A lot of people would rank this as number one and it's great but I get more enjoyment out of the first two)
Revolution of the Daleks (Could just be recency bias but this was a lot of fun and visually stunning with a real feeling of stakes)
Army of Ghosts/Doomsday (You could argue this a cyberman story but seeing as an equal or greater percentage of the threat comes from daleks I'm including it)
Into the Dalek (it's basically just a remake of Dalek but it's a good remake and I like the shrunken and put inside something gimmick in fiction)
Asylum of the Dales (I loved the twist and I think the episode looks really wonderful and makes the universe of Doctor Who feel bigger. I don't like how overdone and out of character Amy and Rory's separation feels especially in the beginning. It's not that I don't buy them being separated it just wasn't handled right in this as opposed to Pond Life. It also sucked the daleks in the asylum didn't get to do more. I wish the Parliament would come back.)
The Magician's Apprentice/The Witch's Familiar (A flawed but enjoyable story that pretty much feels like Moffat just playing around with the mythos but not wanting to really change or mess with anything. I enjoyed the tank and guitar. Also Colony Sarff is a great one off side villain. Not sure how I feel about Davros having eyes.)
Resolution (A decent action adventure that's strong enough throughout aside from the dumb scene with the annoying family talking about the WiFi)
Victory of the Daleks (I'm interested in this period in history and Smith is my favorite Doctor and I don't mind the dalek redesign but this episode feels very bland and the daleks designing a robot bomb that could be deactivated with love doesn't make any sense on any level. There isn't any reason at all an android who is also a bomb that is remotely detonated should be able to control the bomb with its mind.)
Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks (The American accents are mostly very bad, a tough New Yorker calls an elevator a lift, large parts of the plot feel disconnected as if they were pulled out of an idea hat and Dalek Sec looks like a dumb CGI blob when he's consuming the human and then like he has six reproductive appendages sticking out of his head which itself doesn't look that unlike one of those appendages. On top of all that this story use the daleks so poorly it actually undercuts the ongoing dalek story Davies was telling across his era. Every other time they show up there are major consequences and it feels epic. Here it just feels obligatory.)
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Caves of Androzani and Genesis of the Daleks are both good stories that aren't the very best of their Doctors as a lot of fans seem to view them being. For new Who I'd probably go with Rosa though I personally know of kids learning about Civil Rights through that episode and that's great. I just found the villain and pacing relatively poorly done and I wouldn't rank in Whittaker's top 5.
Just a minor nitpick but I'm not a fan of these polls having I can't decide options especially when they themselves refer only to other options. That skews the results.
Why even present these as the only options?
As mentioned above the concept has been touched on in expanded media. As far as having a companion like that I don't think it would work as essentially it would be the show constantly patting itself on the back and alienate most new viewers.
Yes but if you're referring to the Susan's War cover that's years later.
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Where are you getting only 25 years from Tobias Pendlebury? I haven't listened to many of her audios but the dating between The Dalek Invasion of Earth and All Hands on Deck is sixty to seventy to seventy years apart plus there's any time spent non linearly and the fact she may have not literally been a teenager in the first place.
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TARDIS75 there have been Time Lords with infinite lifespan such as Rassilon for awhile now. The Timeless Child doesn't alter default rules about Time Lords though it likely will end up having an impact on the Doctor despit the new regeneration cycle likely being very large anyway.
In my head canon one was about 700 as that's what the early production notes say. He regenerated after a major confrontation with the Cybermen. Eight from what I've seen was at least a few hundred years old with barely any signs of aging. War was likely the Doctor for at least 500 or so year given his aging from very youthful to older and the the fact that he was actively fighting a war which involved time and likely forced him to live through a lot of it. Eleven was about 1000 and under constant stress only regenerating in due to a battle much like the first Doctor. Given that Time Lords tend to stay alive a lot better than other species even without regeneration it's feasible that a Time Lord could without dangerous adventures or accidents live to around 1200 in one body.
Given that a Time Lord with the standard regeneration limit in place has thirteen lives that would put a Time Lord's max lifespan at roughly 15600. Now given I said the first Doctor was around 700 but also factoring in numerous adventures some taking place over a lot of time let's round up to him regenerating at around 750 and call that typical. With thirteen lives of 750 years that would put a Time Lord lifespan ate around 9750. So the answer I'm getting pretty arbitrarily from my personal read on the story is a standard Time Lord lifespan would be between 9750 and 15600 years. To put that in context the first humans are said to have arrived in North America about 16000 years ago.
As you'll notice all my reasoning is really based around "natural" lifespans for individual incarnations. Given that some Time Lords have more than thirteen lives or able to come back from the dead and many Time Lords were permanently killed in great number in the Time War and numerous other events there's really no data to provide a meaningful average. Essentially I just tried to answer how long young Time Lords put on an isolated planet with no conflict or danger and instructed to stay there forever might expect to live.
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