Five Favorite Episodes - Part 9

Choosing the top five episodes for the 9th Doctor is a little tricky. He only has thirteen to choose from, three of which have Slitheens (I actually don't mind the episodes, just seriously, Russell T. Davies, why did they have to be gaseous?), so that cuts it down to ten. For the others I'll possibly count two-parters as one episode, but I can't for 9 or it would basically then leave me with almost every episode being in the top five. But without further ado, 9's top five.


The End of the World
The episode goes above and beyond with its absurdities, which you can either turn up your nose at or laugh at. I happen to enjoy the silliness. But what I like about this episode is that even with all the silliness, this is the one where you first really see how broken he is. You see that the silliness is hiding a hurting, damaged soul. And the brokenness is the thing I love most about him.


The Empty Child & The Doctor Dances

Yes, Moffat, you did something right. I'll give you these two. The kid is just so creepy, and I am so, so happy for the Doctor when 'everybody lives!' He needed that. More than any other Doctor, he needed that.

Bad Wolf & The Parting of the Ways

His grand finale. I love when the Daleks make their demands and he says, 'No.' And Rose does, too, once she figures out that that doesn't mean he's abandoning her, it means he's saving her. And then there's the look on his face when he sends her home, and later the look of fear when he sees that she absorbed the Time Vortex and yet there's also a tinge of happiness that for one moment at least someone sees things how he does so he's not alone. Is his 'I think you need a Doctor,' line corny? Yes. 
But his last words were perfect for him.

Five Favorite Episodes

A long time ago, I decided I should choose my top five Doctor Who episodes. I promptly decided that was too hard, so I should choose my top five for each Doctor (well, 9th-12th anyway - I couldn't do it for all the Doctors even if I wanted to, since the 8th Doctor only has a [really bad] movie and a mini-episode [poor 8, I would've liked him]). I haven't done this, though, because I still have not finished the 12th Doctor (can't bear the thought of no more Capaldi). Rather than go to sleep last night, however, I told Autosmiler that I was going to come up with my lists and do it as a four-part series, since I so want to do it and don't want to wait. The fourth one will just have to come way later.

So anyway, while I know Auto is the only one who might possibly care, I'm doing it anyway. So here we go.

How girls get in trouble

The other day (back when we were allowed to go places), I was at Half Price Books. I was browsing, and there was a man, probably a little too old for me, but not bad-looking, and I thought, 'Feel free to hit on me. I look cute today and I'm bored.'

So remember when I invented graham crackers?

Me, the other day, as I was speeding: "They should invent something that tells you what a cop's radar gun has you at so you know if you need to slow down...."

Political thought

Young Charles Sumner looks like a generic British actor who plays the dashing young lawyer in period dramas.