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Doctor Who: Blink
Mar. 3rd, 2020 10:52 pmSo now that Season Twelve has concluded, I've decided it's time to take a trip back to other Doctors and earlier TARDIS teams with some of my favourite stories! I've been meaning to do a top twenty-five rewatch for aaaaaaages, and it seems like there's going to be quite a gap between now and Season Thirteen so it's as good a time as any.
In order to compare apples with apples (or at least apple cake with apple pie) I am only going over TV stories here, which is helping to keep the list nice and short. And also only actual Doctor Who, no other shows that share its universe. Maybe some other time I'll do a full top fifty with Children of Earth and Alien Bodies and Spare Parts and The Flood and all that other good stuff, but not right now. This also means I'm missing a few Doctors entirely, since I think all of Six's best appearances are in the spin-off material and the TV movie barely counts as a story, let alone one of my twenty-five favourites. Thirteen is also not here, because I always find it difficult to place stories among my favourites when I don't know their context within the era as a whole. There's every chance Haunting of the Villa Diodati will make this list at some point in the future, but not right now.
With all of that out of the way, and counting upwards, the first thing to make the cut is: Blink!
(This post contains no actual spoilers for The Timeless Children but I do mention my feelings about it, so if that's a thing you're avoiding be aware.)
( There are also actual spoilers for Blink. But if you have not watched it in the past thirteen years you probably are not clicking on this cut right now or even reading a post with 'Doctor Who' in the title. I hope you are having a nice Tuesday. )
In order to compare apples with apples (or at least apple cake with apple pie) I am only going over TV stories here, which is helping to keep the list nice and short. And also only actual Doctor Who, no other shows that share its universe. Maybe some other time I'll do a full top fifty with Children of Earth and Alien Bodies and Spare Parts and The Flood and all that other good stuff, but not right now. This also means I'm missing a few Doctors entirely, since I think all of Six's best appearances are in the spin-off material and the TV movie barely counts as a story, let alone one of my twenty-five favourites. Thirteen is also not here, because I always find it difficult to place stories among my favourites when I don't know their context within the era as a whole. There's every chance Haunting of the Villa Diodati will make this list at some point in the future, but not right now.
With all of that out of the way, and counting upwards, the first thing to make the cut is: Blink!
(This post contains no actual spoilers for The Timeless Children but I do mention my feelings about it, so if that's a thing you're avoiding be aware.)
( There are also actual spoilers for Blink. But if you have not watched it in the past thirteen years you probably are not clicking on this cut right now or even reading a post with 'Doctor Who' in the title. I hope you are having a nice Tuesday. )