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‘Silence in the Library’ is better than were it was placed but 99% of classic Who? Ha! Most of SitL was great but I don’t think much of Song which I think is the stories failing, she seems too much like Bernice Summerfield for my tastes.
‘The Stolen Earth’/’Journeys End’ while it is the only new series finale I liked I don’t think it should be placed that high, like ‘Planet of the Dead’ I think it has new episode syndrome.
I think ‘Turn Left’ deserved to be high, I would rate it just a few places lower, maybe 5 or 6 places.
‘The Time Meddler’ wasn’t placed very high, thought that deserved to be higher, shame, it is my favourite Hartnell.

Oh and ‘The Space Pirates’ didn’t do well, I just got the narrated soundtrack today so I will see if it really deserves to be so low, going by the existing episode it doesn’t.

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Z-Ray! Two letters better than X.

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Second.

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Lee Evans was one of the bad parts of ‘Planet of the Dead’.

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Yeh, it proved successful for Clerks so they decided to try it with Firefly too.

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A clip show in episode 2, classic.

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This will be the third Mall Rats I will have, I got the original for a cheap price at the now defunct Music Zone then I manged to get the reissued version which is the one with commentaries and stuff but still not alot of extras. I’m not complaining, I mean I only paid like ?3 for the original, ?5 for the next version and ?7 before for the region 1 version, ?15 all together isn’t that bad. Now all I need is Jersey Girl, An Evening With Kevin Smith 3 and Zack and Miri Make a Porno and my Kevin Smith collection is complete (yes I have Clerks the Animated Series =])

So that Doctor dude, he’s cool, eh?

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The version in region 2 with special features is poor, a laser disc commentary and a few other bits like trailers. According to the info on play.com this is the 10th anniversary version, 2 sides with a version of the film that is 30 minutes longer, being one of my favourite films ever I certainly would like to see a 30 minute longer version as well as a documentary on the making.

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I’ve just pre-ordered Dalek War which is out in 2 weeks people! I also ordered Mall Rats region 1 version but that hasn’t got anything to do with Who.

Currently watching ‘The Keys of Marinus’, for such a tight piece the mistakes of the production are popping up a whole lot more than on any other Hartnell I have seen, I could see a shadow of a boom mic for an entire scene with Ian and Barbera. Still it doesn’t detract too much from the story, it is interesting in that it is several different adventures in one, a nice idea but one that obviously put strain on the production team. ‘The Caves of Androzani’ arrived today too, good night time watching will be that one.

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The Jon Pertwee story ‘The Mind of Evil’ has aparently been re-colourised and Nicholas Courtney has done a commentary and some interviews for the release.

Speaking of Nicholas Courtney he is in very good health and recovered very well from his stroke, he was meant to be in SJA and Hornets Nest but obviously he wasn’t up to it but according to people who went to the Regerations convention he is doing very well and looks forward to seeing if he can do a BBC Audio or BF Audio with Tom Baker (who is now open to BFA according to an interview with him).

So good news all round for Brig fans!

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http://www.ganymede.tv/indepth/the-rob-grant-interview

How did the release of Series VII and VIII feel to you?
Like watching a video tape of your ex-wife?s next honeymoon.

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Plus it gives me an excuse to watch every single episode on the run again.

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Because I live in two different places, A set of Dwarf in one house and a set of Dwarf in the other will be good.

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These are mine now converted –
‘The Tomb of the Cybermen’ should have been in the top 10 for me, I never knew it fared so badly in the polls.

‘The Caves of Androzani’ was a big shock, I have just ordered it on DVD though so I can give it a re-evaluation from the last time I watched it though I thought it was brilliant the last time I seen it I didn?t think it could be given the title of no.1 Doctor Who story.

My biggest shock in the poll was ‘The Sun Makers’, I loved that story, hold it in very high regard, plus from what I have seen it was a popular story, to see it so low down is a big, big shock!

‘The Wheel in Space’ was quite odd aswell, I mean I know only 2 surviving episodes exist but from what does exist it is brilliant, works so well even with 4 episodes missing.

‘The Next Doctor’ was weird too, I certainly thought it was better than that place, especially considering ‘Planet of the Dead’ which was quite poor but got better and followed it ‘The Next Doctor’.

Looking at where ‘Planet of the Dead’, I do think it is new episode syndrome and will be placed much lower next poll, certainly below ‘The Next Doctor’, I can’t see how people would prefer it to ‘Planet of the Dead’.

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If it goes down to ?15-?20 I may very well buy this, I say that price because I already have the Series sets and Bodysnatcher

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>I like #4, #9, #16, #25, and #36 purely because they?re square. Likewise with #34, #55, #144 and #89 as they are part of the Fibonacci Sequence.
However, #119, #31, #89, #113, and #47 can just fuck right off. They?re just primes and not worth my time?

You like ‘Talons of Weng Chiang’, ‘The Robots of Death’, ‘The Seeds of Doom’, ‘The Tomb of the Cybermen’ and ‘Spearhead from Space’ because they’re sqaure. And ‘The Daemons’, ‘The Tenth Planet’, ‘The Reign of Terror’ and ‘Planet of the Spiders’ as they are part of the Fibonacci Sequence.

And ‘The Greatest Show in the Galaxy’, ‘The Invasion’, ‘Planet of the Spiders’ (again), ‘Frontier in Space’ and ‘The Time Warrior’ can fuck right off.

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>And I don?t suppose (m)any people are worried about spoilers save for maybe the top ten.

A bunch of people on GaliifreyBase got pissy ass when people mentioned when a story got placed were saying they didn’t have the mag yet, I just didn’t want to spoil it, if I should then alright, ‘Caves of Androzani’ fucking won.

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I was just putting the numbers down because people get tetchy about spoilers even if it is for a poll so I didn’t want to spoil it, people with the mag can just look ’em up.

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In the entire poll only 2 new series episodes improved on earlier ratings. Interesting.

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In the entire country atleast one person must have had diarrhea or felt ill or something and was then stuck to the seat followed by an unfortunate happenstance.

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I caught two flashing pictures of a person sitting down before the film started.

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I brought up the human horn!

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Remove the human horn!

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If this was a backwards universe you would have already seen Doug on carpool.

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>?Don?t wank. Don?t even wank. Wank and you?re dead. Don?t turn your back, don?t look away and DON?T WANK!?

If Moffat written for Torchwood.

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I didn’t vote! Too lazy and didn’t want to rip out a page of the mag.

>but I got #1 anyway.

So do you love ‘City of Death’?

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>DWM received forms completely filled with ?1?s and ?2?s, by twats.

Yeh, people who haven’t seen the classic series or just don’t like it will fill it with 1s and 2s and vice-versa, they even mentioned that they had some full of 1s and 2s in part of it.

>Due to the way that the scores were compiled, The Twin Dilemma got 82 ?10?s and the most ?1?s of any story, averaging out at 3.844 out of ten. Therefore if the rest of the scores remained the same and The Twin Dilemma were 4/10 it would still not trouble the Top 199.

As I said I would have rated the rest lower, certainly ‘Time and the Rani’ would have got a 1, ‘Power of the Kroll’ too.
It would have been a little annoying with ‘Utopia’ because that episode is bloody fantastic, probably an 8/10 if not a 9/10 but ‘The Sound of Drums’/’Gollum goes the Circus’ would have got a 1/10, together it is about a 3-4/10 but it really isn’t fair on ‘Utopia’, I mean the writer himself says he thinks it is two stories!
I think that ‘Turn Left’ and ‘The Stolen Earth’/’Journeys End’ should have been put as one instead if they so must consider ‘Planet of the Dead’ #200, I mean they finished together.

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‘The Twin Dilemma’ certainly did not deserve to be so low, ask me last week and I would have said it did but a re-evaluation on DVD means I can see it isn’t so bad, it was never going to be classic Who and it is by no means good Who! I would rate it below average, but only just below, I would give it a 4/10, thing is I would rate a fair few other stories lower, probably 20 or so, it would still be low for me but it doesn’t deserve all the flak it gets, I can certainly watch and enjoy it.

#25 should have been in the top 10 for me, I never knew it fared so badly in the polls.

#1 was a big shock, I have just ordered it on DVD though so I can give it a re-evaluation from the last time I watched it though I thought it was brilliant the last time I seen it I didn’t think it could be given the title of no.1 Doctor Who story.

My biggest shock in the poll was #147, I loved that story, hold it in very high regard, plus from what I have seen it was a popular story, to see it so low down is a big, big shock!

#156 was quite odd aswell, I mean I know only 2 surviving episodes exist but from what does exist it is brilliant, works so well even with 4 episodes missing.

#107 was weird too, I certainly thought it was better than that place, especially considering #99 which was quite poor and followed #107.

Oh and lets raise a glass for ‘A fix with the Sontarans’ and ‘Dimensions in Time’ which gained the worst Doctor Who story mantle.

So what cover did people get, I made sure I got ‘The Caves of Androzani’, it was a toss-up between that or ‘Human Nature’ and I decided on ‘The Caves of Androzani’ because it was first on the shelf, all 4 were there but I don’t have ?12 to spend on extra covers.

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I never understood why people found ‘The War Games’ padded out, I couldn’t stop watching, I was fixed to the screen for all 4 hours of it.

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I thought the new series theme was great, then for Series 4 they changed it and now I hate it, who oh why did they have to change.

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You can go and listen to Paul McGann in ‘Blood of the Daleks’ Part 1 and 2 on iPlayer, more will be added as they air I think, enjoy! I am!

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No, the fact that it isn’t street legal probably would.

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Karl II: Wrath of Karl

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Let’s have ‘Time and the Rani’ 13 times, atleast we can look at Karen.

‘Power of the Kroll’ had Mary Tamm, it is still bad. ‘The Time Monster’ had Katy Manning, again still bad. ‘The Invisible Enemy’ had Louise Jameson. ‘Time-Flight’ had Sarah Sutton and Janet Fielding. ‘Timelash’ had Nicola Bryant. ‘Dragonfire’ had Sophie Aldred. ‘Fear Her’ had Billie Piper. I could go on.

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A month before the Play release.

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Oh, I just thought since they had both releases sold out that they had, well, sold out their old stock!

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>I?ve been blocked up and feeling a bit icky these last few days. I figured it was probably just a cold though

Same with me though some friends are much worse than me. The worst I have is a sore throat, the worst some friends gave is chronic throwing up, I consider myself the lucky one.

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Well he said wasn’t right for the part, it isn’t that I am slating Matt Smith, I certainly hope he will be great, I just don’t agree with Moffat on his opinion of who could play the Doctor which gets me a tad worried about Matt, but I will stay positive and not form any opinion on him until a few weeks into his run atleast.
Also note I said “don’t trust him so much”, I still think he will have picked a good man for the part, I just don’t have so much confidence as others, though I couldn’t have as much as some since I don’t see him as a god.

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>> Moffat thinks that Colin Baker was wrong for the part of the Doctor, I don?t trust him so much.

>EPIC SELF-PWNAGE

Oh yes ofcourse, it was all Colin’s fault he didn’t have great scripts. Go listen to ‘Jubilee’ and ‘Bloodtide’ then say that.

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Unless you are too busy writing the new series of Red Dwarf.

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He came into his own from the get go, the scripts did not.

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Moffat thinks that Colin Baker was wrong for the part of the Doctor, I don’t trust him so much.

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I feel quite ill, I might die, maybe before I die I might get to see Doug on carpool, think of it as my last wish.

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Finished ‘The Twin Dilemma’, it was one of my least favourite stories. It isn’t as bad as I remember though, it certainly isn’t as bad as ‘Time and the Rani’ or ‘Last of the Time Lords’ or ‘Power of the Kroll’, it is still very poor but it has gone up in my estimation, I’d give it about a 3/10 which is 2 higher than before.

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>(also, isn?t Zoe meant to be about fifteen when she joins the TARDIS? I mean, I know the actress was older, but still. Ew.)

She is young but not that young. I’d say 18, certainly to have a job on a space station. Oh I wish ‘The Wheel in Space’ didn’t have any missing episodes, episode 3 and 6 are so good.

The actress to play her was 20 when she got the role.

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Oh and I would say Zoe is very Hot! The best looking Troughton companion certainly.

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> The Invasion or The War Games

Buy Both! But if you have to choose one I say go for ‘The Invasion’, it is another Cybermen story and is a slow burner at first but when it gets going it is bloody brilliant. Plus it has lost episodes now animated.
‘The War Games’ is a wonderful story and regardless of what you may of heard it is not boring, not even in the middle. Episode 9 or 10 are probably the best in the story. Oh and the DVD is packed to the brim with bonus features.

If you can get both, then get both, if you can’t then go for ‘The Invasion’ which is cheaper and has Cybermen and animation!

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Try TNG instead.

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>>He has a grand daughter out there too. They haven?t felt the need to bring that up since 1964!

>She?s in The Five Doctors (1983) & Dimensions In Time (1993), and the Doctor being a grandfather is alluded to in The Empty Child (2005).

Ahh, I forgot about ‘The Five Doctors’, I guess it was because she was still with the first Doctor, I didn’t mention ‘Dimensions in Time’ because it is a load of rubbish which is thankfully non-canon, Ace arrives to see the Sixth Doctor, “You’re not the Doctor”, “Yes I am”, *shrug*.

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He has a grand daughter out there too. They haven’t felt the need to bring that up since 1964!

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