#I showed them school reunion. smith and jones. the runaway bride. the next doctor. then today we watched partners in crime

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Ladies and gentlemen, we got them

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We always joke about Doctor Who (especially New Who) having an obsession with Modern London- all the companions are from there, there's quite a few episodes set there due to that, the Doctor is literally British most of the time-

But that made me wonder- is it true or an exaggeration? How much of Doctor Who is set in Modern London?

So, I made a list of all the episodes that did take place, and made up percentages and compiled them together because I have no life I was curious. There are a few episodes that can be counted as exceptions, so I have made one percentage where they do count and one where they don't.

One more thing, I've only done the RTD and Moffat eras because I haven't seen Thirteen's era fully yet.

Anyway, here we go:

Series 1:

Rose

Aliens in London

World War Three

Father’s Day* (parallel universe/alternate timeline)

Boom Town

Total percentage: 

If we include the exceptions in the list: 38.5%

If we don’t: 30.77% (4)

Series 2:

School Reunion

Rise of the Cybermen* 

Age of Steel* (alternate universe)

Love and Monsters

Fear Her* (2012 was 6 years in the future)

Army of Ghosts

Doomsday 

Total percentage:

If we include the exceptions in the list: 53.8%

If we don’t: 30.77% (4)

Series 3:

Smith and Jones

The Lazarus Experiment

Blink

The Sound of Drums

The Last of the Time Lords* (apocalyptic parallel universe)

Total percentage:

If we include the exceptions in the list: 38.5%

If we don’t: 30.77% (4)

Series 4:

Partners in Crime

The Sontaran Stratagem

The Poison Sky

Turn Left* (Alternate timeline)

Journey’s End* (took place mostly on a spaceship)

Total percentage:

If we include the exceptions in the list: 38.5%

If we don’t: 23.08% (3)

Series 5:

The Eleventh Hour

The Hungry Earth* (their future)

Cold Blood*

The Lodger

Total percentage:

If we include the exceptions in the list: 30.77%

If we don’t: 15.4% (2)

Series 6:

Night Terrors

Closing Time

Total percentage:

If we include the exceptions in the list: 15.8%

If we don’t: 15.4%

Series 7:

The Power of Three

The Bells of St John

Total percentage:

If we include the exceptions in the list: 15.4%

If we don’t: 15.4%

Series 8:

Listen* (takes place literally everywhere)

The Caretaker

Flatline

Into the Forest of the Night

Dark Water

Death in Heaven

Total percentage:

If we include the exceptions in the list: 46.15%

If we don’t: 38.5% (5)

Series 9:

The Zygon Invasion

The Zygon Inversion

Face the Raven

Total percentage:

If we include the exceptions in the list: 23.08%

If we don’t: 23.08%

Series 10:

Pilot

Knock Knock

Extremis* (simulation universe)

Lie of the Land

Pyramid at the End of the World

Total percentage:

If we include the exceptions in the list: 38.5%

If we don’t: 30.77% (4)

Specials:

Christmas Invasion

The Runaway Bride

The End of Time Part 1

The End of Time Part 2

Day of the Doctor* (very ishy territory)

Ok let’s list the total Specials so I can calculate the percentages properly:

Christmas Invasion

The Runaway Bride

Voyage of the Damned

The Next Doctor

Planet of the Dead

The Waters of Mars

The End of Time Part 1

The End of Time Part 2

A Christmas Carol

 The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe

The Snowmen

 The Day of the Doctor

 The Time of the Doctor

 Last Christmas

 The Husbands of River Song

 The Return of Doctor Mysterio

 Twice Upon a Time

Total percentage:

If we include the exceptions in the list: 23.7% 

If we don’t: 29.4% (4)

Overall percentage:

If we include the exceptions in the list: 34.07%

If we don’t: 25.7%

RTD era:

Overall percentage:

If we include the exceptions in the list: 43.33%

If we don’t: 31.67%

Moffat Era:

Overall percentage:

If we include the exceptions in the list: 27.4%

If we don’t: 21.4%

So judging by my (hopefully accurate) calculations, less than 40% of the show takes place in London. Take that how you will, I guess. (Personally, I was surprised the number was this small- I was expecting around fifty).

I have a few notes on what this could mean, but I haven't really phrased it too well. Lmk if you guys want an unhinged analysis on that.

One thing I will share though: I find it interesting that Clara's percentages are so high in series 8 and then become low in series 9- almost like her arc of how she tried to live in London for Danny AND go on adventures with the Doctor, and in series 9, she just went "fuck it I'm cutting all ties with Earth"

Anyway, I hope y'all liked this random ass post that nobody needed!

And now I will either go sleep or eat something or continue with my series 5 doctor who rewatch, depending on what i feel like

[gokaihearts35]

My opinion of new series Doctor Who

Top Doctor

I love all the doctors in the new series, but I still prefer Peter Capald, even reviewing every episode. While I really like the ninth doctor,As he stayed only one season had no way to stay on top of the others, comparing how many different situations the other doctors suffered. The tenth and eleven were the most difficult to decide the positions, I love both, plus the tenth has several negative characteristics that I hate

1) 12

2) 11

3) 10

4) 9

Top Companion

Some characters surprised me as how much I liked. I did not remember that Rose was so fun and even with her various faults until I liked her more than I remembered, Donna I thought I would be better positioned since she has the best and More amusing relationship with the tenth doctor, but had forgotten how incredible Martha was, in several episodes she had to act alone to survive and save the day even with the tenth doctor treating her horribly and condescending several times. Rory and Amy did I did not remember how much I liked their relationship, and how beautiful it was Amy's relationship with the Doctor was, I liked her more than I expected. Clara I already knew that  would be in first place, I love your relationship with the doctor, its complexity, its flaws, is the most complex and developed character of the new series (Clara, we knows that she loves stories, she sees the life of her parents as a fairy tale, loves and wants to take care of children she has an authoritarian personality and tries to take control of the situation (I'm not just talking about their several episodes of the eighth season about this, but also looks to the end of The Bells of Saint John different from the other companions that when the Doctor are invited them to Tardis instead of jumping inside the Tardis she sends him come back the next day, she takes control of the situation and it shows that it will do the thing of traveling with him on her terms, she takes control of the situation instead of the Doctor who let her travel with him is the Doctor waiting to know if she will travel with him). I hate it when they say that Clara is too perfect, when she is the companion with more defects being quoted and who are important for the stories and their development, this does not make sense. Clara is my favorite companion of the new series and the most of the people completely lose the arc point of the Impossible girl: The whole point of her season 7 arc was The doctor realizes that he was wrong and she is only a normal person who later did something incredible, like Rose and Donna. Initially she tried to balance her normal life with the life With life with the doctor, And as Danny died it was as if there was nothing else that bound her to Earth, she saw herself as a protagonist of a book, she and Doctor were the heroes who could always save the day and escape the danger, of course it ended Being so equal to the Doctor who ended up dead, plus she and the Doctor forged such a deep bond and he this season (the ninth) was already tired of letting people die (Ashildr's bow, the girl's death in the bow of the underwater base ) and did not want to lose anybody else and with desire of revenge against the Time Lords he ended up going too far and breaking the laws of time and he brought her to life, plus what could end up breaking the universe, but he with his selfish did not want Give up saving Clara, so he had to erase his memories of her, and you can notice he learned the lesson that everything has to end an hour, that nothing is forever, in the at the The Husbands of River Song. Clara of course would return to Gallifrey, her final arc was a critique of the trope of killing of female character and that any person can be the Doctor, that he is not just a being, but an ideal that anyone can try to be, Idea that has several Moffat scripts, like Extremis, The Zygon Inversion, The Witch's Familiar and several others. . Bill, while I quite liked her, she was very simple, and I sincerely liked the others more than hers.

1) Clara

2) Rory

3) Martha

4) Amy

5) Donna

6) Bill

7) River Song

8) Rose

9) Nardole

10) Captain Jack

11) Mickey

Top Season ( The best to worst)

9

4

8

5

10

3

1

6

2

7

Top Season Finale

One thing I prefer in the Moffat season finale is that it focuses on the characters' relationships with each other and their developments, how situations are dealt with, and are centered on the dialogues between the characters while those in Russell T Davies are more focused in action, how the situation affects the characters and their choices. In RT Davies are situations that are increasing, threatening the Earth or the Universe, while Moffat is the opposite, starts with a great threat, with several villains to become small situations, with only a few characters in one place, talking between they, in Davies the characters struggle with the external situation, in that of Moffat they struggle with their interior.

1-Face the Raven/Heaven Sent/Hell Bent

2- World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls

3- The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang

4- Utopia/The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords

5- Dark Water / Death in Heaven

6- Army of Ghosts/Doomsday

7- Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways

8- The Name of the Doctor

9- The Wedding of River Song

10- The Stolen Earth / Journey's End

There are no episodes that I did not like, for me, every episode goes from good to great. Actually it was very difficult to do the lists, because several episodes were good and great, so some positions were decided not only how much I liked, but by elements of the episodes.

SERIES 1

10º — The Long Game

9º — The End of the World

8º — Rose

7º — Boom Town

6º — Father's Day

5º — The Unquiet Dead

4º —  Dalek

3º — Aliens of London/World War Three

2º — Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways

1º — The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances

Series 2

10º — Fear Her

9º —   The Idiot's Lantern

8º — Tooth and Claw

7º — Love & Monsters

6º — School Reunion

5º — New Earth

4º — Army of Ghosts/Doomsday

3º — The Girl in the Fireplace

2º — Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel

1º — The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit

Series 3

9º —  The Lazarus Experiment

8º — Smith and Jones

7º — 42

6º — Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks

5º — Gridlock

4º — The Shakespeare Code

3º —Utopia/The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords

2º —  Blink

1º — Human Nature/The Family of Blood

Series 4

10º — The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky

9º — Partners in Crime

8º —  The Unicorn and the Wasp

7º — The Doctor's Daughter

6º — The Stolen Earth/Journey's End

5º —  The Fires of Pompeii

4º — Turn Left

3º — Planet of the Ood

2º —  Midnight

1º — Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead

Season 5

10º —  The Vampires of Venice

9º —  Amy's Choice

8º —  Victory of the Daleks

7º — The Beast Below

6º — The Lodger

5º — The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood

4º —  The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone

3º — The Eleventh Hour

2º — Vincent and the Doctor

1º —  The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang

Season 6

11º —  Night Terrors

10º — The Curse of the Black Spot

9º —  Closing Time

8º —  Let's Kill Hitler

7º —  The Wedding of River Song

6º —  The God Complex

5º — The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People

4º —  A Good Man Goes to War

3º — The Doctor's Wife

2º — The Girl Who Waited

1º — The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon

Season 7

13º  - Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS

12° -  Hide

11º —  Cold War

10º —  Nightmare in Silver

9º —  The Power of Three

8º —   The Bells of Saint John

7º —   The Angels Take Manhattan

6º —  Asylum of the Daleks

5º — The Name of the Doctor

4º —  Dinosaurs on a Spaceship

3º —The Crimson Horror

2º — A Town Called Mercy

1º — The Rings of Akhaten

Season 8

11º — Kill the Moon

10º — In the Forest of the Night

9º —  The Caretaker

8º — Into the Dalek

7º —  Time Heist

6º —  Deep Breath

5º —  Dark Water / Death in Heaven

4º —  Listen

3º — Robot of Sherwood

2º —  Flatline

1º — Mummy on the Orient Express

Season 9

6º —  Sleep No More

5º —  The Girl Who Died / The Woman Who Lived

4º —  Under the Lake / Before the Flood

3º — The Zygon Invasion / The Zygon Inversion

2º —  The Magician's Apprentice / The Witch's Familiar

1º — Face the Raven/Heaven Sent/Hell Bent

Seasn 10

10º — Knock Knock

9º — Smile

8º —  The Pyramid at the End of the World / The Lie of the Land

7º — Empress of Mars

6º — The Pilot

5º — Thin Ice

4º —  Oxygen

3º —  The Eaters of Light

2º —  Extremis

1º — World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls

Chistmas Specials

12º —  The End of Time

11º —  The Next Doctor

10º —  The Christmas Invasion

9º —  The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe

8º —  The Return of Doctor Mysterio

7º —  The Runaway Bride

6º —  Voyage of the Damned

5º —  The Snowmen

4º —  The Time of the Doctor

3º — The Husbands of River Song

2º —  Last Christmas

1º —  A Christmas Carol

Regarding the list of episodes of cybermen and daleks, one can notice that the list are not only of the ones I liked the most, but also how well I found them to have used these villains in history

Top Cybermen  Episodes

1- World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls

2- Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel

3- Dark Water / Death in Heaven

4- The Next Doctor

5- Army of Ghosts/Doomsday

6- Closing Time

7- Nightmare in Silver

Top Daleks Episodes

1- Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways

2- The Magician's Apprentice / The Witch's Familiar

3- Army of Ghosts/Doomsday  

4- Dalek

5- Asylum of the Daleks

6- Into the Dalek

7- Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks

8- The Stolen Earth / Journey's End

9- Victory of the Daleks

Top Episodes of Russel T Davies

12 - Gridlock

11 - The Stolen Earth/Journey's End

10 - The Runaway Bride

9 - Partners in Crime

8 - Voyage of the Damned

7 - Aliens of London/World War Three

6 -  Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways

5 -  Army of Ghosts/Doomsday

4 -  The Waters of Mars

3 - Turn Left

2 - Utopia/The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords

1 – Midnight

Top Episodes of Steven Moffat

12 - The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances

11 - The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon

10 - Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead

9 - Blink

8 - The Magician's Apprentice / The Witch's Familiar

7 -  Extremis

6 – Last Christmas

5 -  A Christmas Carol

4 - The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang

3 -  The Day of the Doctor

2 - World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls

1 – Heaven Sent/Hell Bent

Top Episodes of Mark Gatiss

1) Robot of Sherwood

2) The Crimson Horror

3) The Unquiet Dead

4) Empress of Mars

5) Cold War

6) The Idiot's Lantern

7) Victory of the Daleks

8) Night Terrors

9) Sleep No More

I love Robot of Sherwood, I think it's a really funny episode, Clara was great, I loved the Doctor's dynamics with Robin Hood and had a great message about heroism and inspiration and fiction from the heroes. The Crimson Horror, I like to focus in the Paternoster gang, mostly in Jenny, and I loved Winifred Gillyflower and Ada, they were great characters. As of Cold War, the episodes for me are just regular. Victory of the Daleks and Sleep No More are not so bad episodes, both have good ideas and scenes, in Victory I liked the story of the scientist, the fact that nobody believed in the Doctor and in the end the daleks win, already in Sleep No More sincerely not I see what's so bad about this episode, it has a good idea, a good mood and a good ending, of course there are several things I would do differently, but there's nothing bad about the villan. The only one I do not like, that I hate is Night Terrors, I hated the kid in the episode and had several things that I think did not made sense. Overall I like Mark Gatiss, he did not write my favorites of the seasons but he is not such a bad roter as people say.

[nasaniaru]

The Essential Doctor Who Watchlist

In honor of Peter Capaldi’s last episode Twice Upon a Time, I wanted to assemble a “Best of” episode watchlist to watch them before watching Twice Upon a Time. I then wanted to go even further beyond and assemble a watchlist for each Doctor. So here is the watchlist for each Doctor assembled into one larger watchlist.

William Hartnell

·         An Unearthly Child

·         The Daleks

·         The Edge of Destruction

·         Marco Polo

·         The Keys of Marinus

·         The Aztecs

·         The Sensorites

·         The Reign of Terror

·         The Dalek Invasion of Earth

·         The Rescue

·         The Crusade

·         The Space Museum

·         The Chase

·         The Time Meddler

·         Mission to the Unknown

·         The Myth Makers

·         The Daleks’ Master Plan

·         The Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve

·         The Savages

·         The War Machines

·         The Tenth Planet

·         The Three Doctors

·         The Five Doctors

·         Twice Upon a Time

 Patrick Troughton

·         The Power of the Daleks

·         The Highlanders

·         The Moonbase

·         The Faceless Ones

·         The Evil of the Daleks

·         The Tomb of the Cybermen

·         The Ice Warriors

·         The Enemy of the World

·         The Web of Fear

·         Fury from the Deep

·         The Wheel in Space

·         The Invasion

·         The Seeds of Death

·     ��   The War Games

·         The Three Doctors

·         The Five Doctors

 Jon Pertwee

·         Spearhead from Space

·         Doctor Who and the Silurians

·         The Ambassadors of Death

·         Inferno

·         Terror of the Autons

·         The Mind of Evil

·         The Daemons

·         The Curse of Peladon

·         The Sea Devils

·         The Time Monster

·         The Three Doctors

·         Frontier in Space

·         Planet of the Daleks

·         The Green Death

·         The Time Warrior

·         Invasion of the Dinosaurs

·         The Monster of Peladon

·         Planet of the Spiders

·         The Five Doctors

 Tom Baker

·         Robot

·         The Ark in Space

·         The Sontaran Experiment

·         Genesis of the Daleks

·         Terror of the Zygons

·         Planet of Evil

·         Pyramids of Mars

·         The Android Invasion

·         The Brain of Morbius

·         The Seeds of Doom

·         The Hand of Fear

·         The Deadly Assassin

·         The Face of Evil

·         The Talons of Weng-Chiang

·         Horror of Fang Rock

·         The Invisible Enemy

·         The Invasion of Time

·         The Ribos Operation

·         The Stones of Blood

·         The Androids of Tara

·         The Power of Kroll

·         The Armageddon Factor

·         Destiny of the Daleks

·         City of Death

·         Shada

·         Meglos

·         Full Circle

·         State of Decay

·         Warriors’ Gate

·         The Keeper of Traken

·         Logopolis

 Peter Davison

·         Castrovalva

·         Kinda

·         Black Orchid

·         Earthshock

·         Time-Flight

·         Arc of Infinity

·         Snakedance

·         Mawdryn Undead

·         Terminus

·         Enlightenment

·         The King’s Demons

·         The Five Doctors

·         Frontios

·         Resurrection of the Daleks

·         Planet of Fire

·         The Caves of Androzani

·         Time Crash

 Colin Baker

·         The Twin Dilemma

·         Attack of the Cybermen

·         The Mark of The Rani

·         Time Lash

·         Revelation of the Daleks

·         The Mysterious Planet

·         Mindwarp

·         Terror of the Vervoids

·         The Ultimate Foe

 Sylvester McCoy

·         Time and The Rani

·         Paradise Towers

·         Dragonfire

·         Remembrance of the Daleks

·         Silver Nemesis

·         The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

·         Battlefield

·         Ghost Light

·         The Curse of Fenric

·         Survival

·         Doctor Who The Movie

 Paul McGann

·         Doctor Who The Movie

·         Shada

·         The Night of The Doctor

 John Hurt

·         The Night of The Doctor

·         The Name of The Doctor

·         The Day of The Doctor

 Christopher Eccleston

·         Rose

·         The End of the World

·         The Unquiet Dead

·         Aliens of London/World War Three

·         Dalek

·         The Long Game

·         Father’s Day

·         The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances

·         Boom Town

·         Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways

 David Tennant

·         Born Again

·         The Christmas Invasion

·         New Earth

·         Tooth and Claw

·         School Reunion

·         The Girl in the Fireplace

·         Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel

·         The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit

·         Army of Shosts/Doomsday

·         The Runaway Bride

·         Smith and Jones

·         The Shakespeare Code

·         Gridlock

·         The Lazarus Experiment

·         42

·         Human Nature/The Family of Blood

·         Blink

·         Utopia/The Sound of Drums/The Last of the Time Lords

·         Time Crash

·         Voyage of the Damned

·         Partners in Crime

·         The Fires of Pompeii

·         The Sontaran Stratagem/The Poison Sky

·         The Doctor’s Daughter

·         Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead

·         Midnight

·         Turn Left

·         The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End

·         The Next Doctor

·         Planet of the Dead

·         The Waters of Mars

·         (The Sarah Jane Adventures) The Wedding of Sarah Jane

·         The End of Time

·         The Day of The Doctor

 Matt Smith

·         The Eleventh Hour

·         The Beast Below

·         Victory of the Daleks

·         The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone

·         The Vampires of Venice

·         Amy’s Choice

·         The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood

·         Vincent and The Doctor

·         The Lodger

·         The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang

·         (The Sarah Jane Adventures) The Death of The Doctor

·         The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon

·         The Doctor’s Wife

·         The Rebel Flesh/The Almost People

·         A Good Man Goes to War/Let’s Kill Hitler

·         The Girl Who Waited

·         The God Complex

·         Closing Time

·         The Wedding of River Song

·         Asylum of the Daleks

·         Dinosaurs on a Spaceship

·         The Power of Three

·         The Angels Take Manhattan

·         The Snowmen

·         The Bells of St. John

·         The Rings of Akhaten

·         Cold War

·         Hide

·         Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS

·         The Name of The Doctor

·         The Day of The Doctor

·         The Time of The Doctor

 Peter Capaldi

·         Deep Breath

·         Listen

·         Time Heist

·         The Caretaker

·         Mummy on the Orent Express

·         Flastline

·         Dark Water/Death in Heaven

·         The Magician’s Apprentice/The Witch’s Familiar

·         Under the Lake/Before the Flood

·         The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion

·         Face the Raven/Heaven Sent/Hell Bent

·         The Husbands of River Song

·         The Return of Doctor Mysterio

·         (Class) For Tonight We Might Die

·         The Pilot

·         Smile

·         Thin Ice

·         Oxygen

·         Extremis/The Pyramid at the End of the World/The Lie of the Land

·         Empress of Mars

·         The Eaters of Light

·         World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls

·         Twice Upon a Time