warning: contains memes.

[usuallyhats]

Here is a meme nicked from everlasting_day, based on the new Doctor Who Magazine episode ranking poll.

Bold the stories that you loved, strike through the stories which you hated. Put the ones you haven't seen yet in italics. As for the missing episodes, if you've seen a reconstruction or heard the audio soundtrack, they should be counted as "seen".

001. The Caves of Androzani
002. Blink
003. Genesis of the Daleks
004. The Talons of Weng-Chiang
005. The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
006. Human Nature/The Family of Blood
007. Pyramids of Mars
008. City of Death
009. The Robots of Death
010. Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways
011. The Girl in The Fireplace
012. Turn Left (Twelfth? Really, twelfth?)
013. The Stolen Earth/Journey's End (I had to hide in my study towards the end as I could not believe that the spoilers I'd dismissed as too stupid to be true were, in fact, true.)
014. Remembrance of the Daleks
015. Dalek
016. The Seeds of Doom
017. Terror of the Zygons
018. The Evil of the Daleks
019. Earthshock
020. The Deadly Assassin
021. The Power of the Daleks
022. Army of Ghosts/Doomsday
023. The Web of Fear
024. Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead
025. The Tomb of the Cybermen (the first Two I ever saw! Victoria is ace in in, the Cybermen are properly scary, and there are some lovely bits with Our Heroes.)
026. Horror of Fang Rock
027. Utopia/The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords (spot the moment where my fannish happiness hit a brick wall)
028. The Ark in Space
029. The War Games
030. The Curse of Fenric
031. The Invasion
032. Inferno
033. School Reunion
034. The Daemons
035. The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit
036. Spearhead From Space (a year ago I would have crossed this one out, but when I rewatched it I discovered that I do like it after all. Not enough to bold it, though.)
037. The Daleks
038. The Five Doctors
039. The Green Death
040. The Brain of Morbius (I understand this one has a BRAIN INNA JAR? Therefore I will probably love it.)
041. Fury from the Deep
042. The Dalek's Master Plan
043. Midnight
044. The Dalek Invasion of Earth
045. The Silurians
046. Revelation of the Daleks
047. The Time Warrior
048. The Christmas Invasion
049. Father's Day
050. The Sea Devils
051. Terror of the Autons
052. Tooth and Claw
053. Logopolis
054. The Unquiet Dead
055. The Tenth Planet
056. The Fires of Pompeii
057. The Aztecs
058. The Three Doctors
059. The Abominable Snowmen
060. The Mind Robber
061. An Unearthly Child
062. Carnival of Monsters (it is utterly bonkers and I love it)
063. Rose
064. The Shakespeare Code
065. Marco Polo
066. Smith and Jones
067. The Stones of Blood
068. Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel
069. Kinda
070. The Keeper of Traken (I love the atmosphere of this one.)
071. Day of the Daleks
072. Enlightenment
073. Image of the Fendahl
074. Gridlock
075. The Time Meddler
076. Ghost Light
077. The Visitation
078. The Ice Warriors
079. Planet of the Ood
080. Survival
081. Warriors' Gate
082. The Curse of Peladon
083. The Unicorn and the Wasp
084. Planet of Evil
085. The Masque of Mandragora
086. The Massacre
087. State of Decay
088. Castrovalva
089. Planet of the Spiders
090. The Ambassadors of Death
091. The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky
092. The Mind of Evil
093. Resurrection of the Daleks
094. The End of the World (my very favourite New Series story)
095. The Androids of Tara (it's The Prisoner of Zenda IN SPACE! Of course I love it.)
096. The Hand of Fear
097. The Romans
098. Partners in Crime
099. Planet of the Dead
100. The Crusade
101. Full Circle
102. Mawdryn Undead
103. The Sontaran Experiment
104. Frontios
105. The Ribos Operation
106. Robot
107. The Next Doctor
108. The War Machines
109. The Pirate Planet
110. The Awakening
111. The Seeds of Death
112. The Moonbase
113. Frontier in Space
114. Voyage of the Damned
115. The Runaway Bride
116. The Face of Evil
117. Black Orchid
118. Planet of the Daleks
119. The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
120. Snakedance
121. Destiny of the Daleks
122. The Faceless Ones
123. The Android Invasion
124. Vengeance on Varos
125. The Two Doctors ("Yes, Jamie, it is a big one.")
126. The Myth Makers
127. The Rescue
128. Death to the Daleks
129. The Claws of Axos
130. Revenge of the Cybermen
131. Invasion of the Dinosaurs
132. Aliens of London/World War Three
133. Mission to the Unknown
134. Planet of Fire
135. Doctor Who The TV Movie
136. 42
137. The Macra Terror
138. The Idiot's Lantern
139. The Enemy of the World
140. The Doctor's Daughter
141. Boom Town ("She's climbing out of the window, isn't she?")
142. The Trial of a Time Lord
143. New Earth
144. The Reign of Terror
145. The Highlanders
146. Battlefield
147. The Sun Makers
148. The Mark of the Rani
149. The Leisure Hive
150. The Lazarus Experiment
151. The Celestial Toymaker
152. Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks
153. Love and Monsters (I enjoyed most of this one but really hated the ending, so it's hard to judge it)
154. The Ark
155. The Invasion of Time (I think I would have loved this one if it had been edited down a bit; as it is, it's so slow.)
156. The Wheel in Space
157. The Chase
158. The Edge of Destruction
159. The Smugglers (though perhaps I would have liked it more with pictures? It feels like something I would like.)
160. The Keys of Marinus
161. Attack of the Cybermen
162. The Savages
163. Planet of Giants
164. The Invisible Enemy
165. The Long Game
166. The Krotons
167. Nightmare of Eden
168. The Armageddon Factor
169. Terminus
170. The Happiness Patrol
171. Colony in Space
172. Galaxy 4
173. Four to Doomsday
174. The Power of Kroll
175. The Gunfighters (SO MUCH LOVE)
176. Silver Nemesis
177. Arc of Infinity
178. The Web Planet (I respect it, but I don't particularly like it)
179. The Monster of Peladon
180. Delta and the Bannermen
181. The King's Demons
182. The Mutants
183. The Sensorites
184. The Creature from the Pit
185. Warriors of the Deep
186. Dragonfire
187. The Time Monster
188. Meglos
189. The Horns of Nimon
190. The Space Museum
191. The Dominators
192. Fear Her
193. Paradise Towers
194. The Underwater Menace
195. The Space Pirates
196. Time-Flight
197. Underworld
198. Time and the Rani
199. Timelash
200. The Twin Dilemma

persiflage_1 tagged me for the seven habits/facts/quirks meme:

A. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag seven people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it".

(this was quite hard; I got stuck on five for ages. There are not really seven interesting things I can say about me.)
1. FACT: The first time I ever went in a plane I had a go at flying it.
2. HABIT: Whenever I cook pancakes (crêpe style, not American), the first one must contain banana, the second honey and the third lemon juice and sugar. THIS IS THE WAY IT MUST BE.
3. QUIRK: I am very strict about what order I read books in. Essentially it is the order I buy them in but there are also lots of exceptions that I refer to in terms such as "The Series Codicil" and "The Library Override" and "The Pratchett Exemption" and so on. This is entirely sensible and not mad at all in any way.
4. HABIT: I've been boycotting Radio 5 ever since they stopped broadcasting children's programmes in 1994. Admittedly this requires no sacrifice on my part as Radio 5 is full of sport and I care not for sport.
5. FACT: I was born in the grounds of a stately home.
6. QUIRK: I am incapable of eating breakfast whilst watching TV. Any other meal is fine; breakfast in front of the TV makes me feel sick and makes me eat even more slowly than usual. (An hour for one bowl of cereal is ridiculous even by my standards.)
7. FACT: My dad once had a lovely conversation with JK Rowling about Ford Anglias. OK this is not technically a fact about me, but it is a fact I like.

And I tag: agapi42, eponymous_rose, ghost2, hhertzof, queenthesixth, silly_cleo and wondygal


This week I have been mostly watching... The West Wing. I finished season one on Wednesday and had to know what happened next, even though I sort of already knew due to spoilers and whatnot, so I zoomed up to the main university library and borrowed season 2, which was on three day loan, hence how much I have been watching it. I do feel slightly worried that despite the dialogue being fantastically witty and intelligent, the bits I laugh at the most tend to involve someone falling over or getting hit with a door. Hmmm. I am less keen on the bits where they are all "rah rah patriotism" because that is really not my sort of thing at all, but it does do a good job at convincing me that it matters to the characters, even if it doesn't to me. Also CJ is the most awesomest ever, but that is a KNOWN FACT and does not really need to be stated.

Also this weekend I watch the Something of Boris* Quantum of Solace, which was very entertaining: stuff went boom, cars went zoom, Bond went RAR and I quite liked both Bond girls. Also there was a v. exciting bit towards the beginning where I thought M was going to do some fighting, but alas it was not to be. I liked the scaffolding/roof jumping fight, that was fun. I would have been fairly eye-rolly at the intercutting fight/opera bits if it were not for the fact that it allowed me to make some terrible puns ("it's a fight at the opera!" I said happily), so I forgave them. I also find it quite sweet that they are attempting to emulate the Bourne films.

*this is a large part of why I didn't see it in the cinema; I couldn't be sure I wouldn't get to the window and announce cheerily "one for the Something of Boris, please!"

Comments

[everlasting-day.livejournal.com]

Ever since it was pointed out that Turn Left is a bit racist it's dropped considerably in my estimations. And I almost had a siezure when I saw how high up Journey's End was. Morbius will not disappoint on the BRAIN INNA JAR front - it's probably the Hinchcliffe era at its most hysterically gothic, I think.

I don't get why a lot of people hated Suantum of Quolace (the thingy of wotsit?). I enjoyed it for the exact same reasons as you and I think it's quite admirable that it didn't constantly spoonfeed the audience. It's also a very, very pretty-looking film which I didn't quite appreciate until I rewatched it.

[usuallyhats]

Oh yes, it is gorgeous looking, especially the scene where Bond and Camille are walking back through the desert. I don't understand the hate for it, either - it meant I spent a lot of the film thinking "am I missing something? Isn't this supposed to be awful?"

I would've expected Turn Left and Journey's End to get a bit of a bump for being recent, but not that much :/ And I still can't get over the fact that Turn Left managed three entirely separate racist bits. *headdesk*

it's probably the Hinchcliffe era at its most hysterically gothic, I think.
EXCELLENT.

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

1. FACT: The first time I ever went in a plane I had a go at flying it.

That is UTTERLY awesome!!

[usuallyhats]

Hee! It's not quite as cool as I'm making it sound - I was in the CCF at school and everyone in the RAF section got to go flying, and it just happened to be the first time I'd been in a plane. It was rather terrifying, but also v. fun!

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

You're wrong! Being in the CCF and doing it just makes it even cooler!

[wondygal.livejournal.com]

Wow, this ranking is wrong. Srsly, it are fact. I like Dalek and Bad Wolf/Parting of the Ways as much as the next fangirl, but better than Dalek Invasion of Earth, or Curse of Fenric? I shall have to do this meme too so I can express this sudden vehement feeling of disagreement that has overtaken me.

I love TWW so very much, and while sometimes I did go a bit hmm at the patriotism, it mostly worked well for me, but I can see your point.

[usuallyhats]

I think it's the swelling music, it triggers my inner cynic from time to time! But it's only a minor niggle, really.

Icon!Vicki is making the perfect face for this ranking! Some of it is really very strange.

[silly-cleo.livejournal.com]

The 'Something of Boris' makes me giggle something stupid. ;D Sadly it seems to be the Bond film that finally broke me wrt the sexism so I haven't seen it yet. I dunno why that one but there you go.

I'm sort of ignoring the ranking mostly cuz if I look at it too hard I'll probably be cross, probably cuz of Season 17. ;)

fantastically witty and intelligent, the bits I laugh at the most tend to involve someone falling over or getting hit with a door. Hmmm. I am less keen on the bits where they are all "rah rah patriotism" because that is really not my sort of thing at all, but it does do a good job at convincing me that it matters to the characters, even if it doesn't to me.

This is pretty much how I feel about the West Wing I've seen so far. Also, that CJ is the most awesomest ever. I really need to watch more. :D

And I think your facts and quirks and stuff are terribly interesting. :D I need to get around to doing the meme. ;D Esp that your dad met JK, OMG! :D And well, plane. :D Basically, <3 and yay and hee generally. And I think your book system sounds terribly sensible and interesting and not at all mad. I ought to employ similar cuz the number of books I own but haven't read cuz I thought owning them might make me read them is almost as stupid as the length of this sentence.

[silly-cleo.livejournal.com]

Wait, Horns of Nimon is 189?! You haven't seen it?! But....NIMONS! ;D (See, now I'm looking at the list and I'm cross. Cuz of Season 17. It is the best ever, no lie at all. ;))

[usuallyhats]

Sadly it seems to be the Bond film that finally broke me wrt the sexism so I haven't seen it yet.
Hee, fair enough! It is one of the Judi-Dench-as-M ones so it gets points for that.

Esp that your dad met JK, OMG!
He hasn't even read any of the books! He was just getting my sister's copy of Philosopher's Stone signed.

the number of books I own but haven't read cuz I thought owning them might make me read them is almost as stupid as the length of this sentence.
That is EXACTLY why I have the system! Otherwise there are many things that I would have looked at and gone TOO LONG or TOO SERIOUS, but instead I read them and (usually) enjoyed them.

I have indeed not seen Horns of Nimon (YET)! I am very much looking forward to season 17 though, no matter what DWM readers reckon.

[silly-cleo.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I had forgotten about Judi Dench. Mayhap I shall procure a copy and just watch her bits. ;D

Ahhhhh, that is sort of NOT FAIR. The opportunity was WASTED! WASTED! ;)

Heh, yeah, that happens to me ALL THE TIME. Srsly, this is how I own two copies of Anna Karenina. And I am sure I would like it if I would READ it.

Semi-srsly, whether people find Season 17 funny or not is a fannish yard-stick of mine. ;D BECAUSE IT'S HILARIOUS, DAMNIT. ;D

[usuallyhats]

That is indeed a perfectly acceptable way to watch a Bond film :)

this is how I own two copies of Anna Karenina. And I am sure I would like it if I would READ it.
You would! It's great! I missed a train because I was so determined to finish it.