Subscribed today after watching your Buffy season rankings. Your channel is perfect for me. Doctor Who and Buffy are two of my favorite shows of all time. I’m an older fan. My Doctor Who introduction was from the Tom Baker era. I live in the US and I didn’t discover Doctor Who until I was in college. Fell in love with it of course and watched every episode I could find (which was a difficult task in 1980’s USA). I agree with you on Season 5 of new Who except for one qualification. I think it is the single best season of Who in the entire run of the show, both Classic and new Who. ❤
Nice ranking, and you make excellent points as ever. Not too far off how I'd rate these stories, except I love The Rings of Akhaten and find The Crimson Horror OK. Somewhat controversially, I'm not a big fan of The Doctor's Wife, as I don't like the fact that Gaiman "humanizes" the TARDIS; it's still a mighty fine episode, though, but it's not a Classic for me.
Thanks, Ahkaten seems to be a Marmite episode - a lot of great stuff in there but it doesnt quite come together for me. Interesting take on "The Doctor's Wife", I've never really thought about that before...
@@thetalisman7722 Cheers. Re "Akhaten", I'm a sucker for fairytales and the operatic, and this episode hits the right buttons for me. Also, it has one of the few non-irritating child actors I've seen in the show... which automatically puts it a notch above Nightmare in Silver for that reason :)
Oh, I absolutely agree. Now that's not a hard and fast rule - and Chibnalls best work for the Whoniverse remains his best Torchwood stuff, but in general on the main show, I'd take 42 or Dinasours on a Spaceship over most of his tenure any day
Subscribed today after watching your Buffy season rankings. Your channel is perfect for me. Doctor Who and Buffy are two of my favorite shows of all time.
I’m an older fan. My Doctor Who introduction was from the Tom Baker era. I live in the US and I didn’t discover Doctor Who until I was in college. Fell in love with it of course and watched every episode I could find (which was a difficult task in 1980’s USA). I agree with you on Season 5 of new Who except for one qualification. I think it is the single best season of Who in the entire run of the show, both Classic and new Who. ❤
Nice ranking, and you make excellent points as ever. Not too far off how I'd rate these stories, except I love The Rings of Akhaten and find The Crimson Horror OK. Somewhat controversially, I'm not a big fan of The Doctor's Wife, as I don't like the fact that Gaiman "humanizes" the TARDIS; it's still a mighty fine episode, though, but it's not a Classic for me.
Thanks, Ahkaten seems to be a Marmite episode - a lot of great stuff in there but it doesnt quite come together for me. Interesting take on "The Doctor's Wife", I've never really thought about that before...
@@thetalisman7722 Cheers. Re "Akhaten", I'm a sucker for fairytales and the operatic, and this episode hits the right buttons for me. Also, it has one of the few non-irritating child actors I've seen in the show... which automatically puts it a notch above Nightmare in Silver for that reason :)
@@ftumschk ah, well it appears we can agree on Nightmare in Silver then - horrible story
Unpopular Opinion: I prefer Chris Chibnalls Scripts Under Moffat over his time as ShowRunner and RTD.
Oh, I absolutely agree. Now that's not a hard and fast rule - and Chibnalls best work for the Whoniverse remains his best Torchwood stuff, but in general on the main show, I'd take 42 or Dinasours on a Spaceship over most of his tenure any day
@@thetalisman7722 Yes.
Agreed