Just noticed Planet of the Daleks was included twice in the Daleks data:

The new average is 3.95

@DrBen Indeed! Maybe I should multiply each rating by the length in minutes of each episode, then divide by the total number of minutes…

Nah – far too complicated!

I was actually surprised that Eccleston came out ahead of Tennant!

Cybermen:

Earthshock 5
Army of Ghosts 5
Rise of the Cybermen 4
The Age of Steel 4
The Tomb of the Cybermen 3
Attack of the Cybermen 3
Doomsday 3
The Next Doctor 3
Nightmare in Silver 3
Revenge of the Cybermen 2
Closing Time 2

Average Score 3.36

Daleks:

Day of the Daleks 5
Genesis of the Daleks 5
Resurrection of the Daleks 5
Remembrance of the Daleks 5
Dalek 5
The Parting of the Ways 5
Army of Ghosts 5
The Stolen Earth 5
Asylum of the Daleks 5
The Day of the Doctor 5
Into the Dalek 4
Planet of the Daleks 3
Planet of the Daleks 3
Destiny of the Daleks 3
Revelation of the Daleks 3
Bad Wolf…[Read more]

Paternoster Gang:

The Name of the Doctor 5
The Snowmen 4
The Crimson Horror 4
A Good Man Goes to War 3
Deep Breath 3

Average Score 3.80

River Song:

Silence in the Library 5
Forest of the Dead 5
The Pandorica Opens 5
The Big Bang 5
The Angels Take Manhattan 5
The Name of the Doctor 5
The Time of Angels 4
Flesh and Stone 4
The Impossible Astronaut 4
Day of the Moon 4
Let’s Kill Hitler 4
A Good Man Goes to War 3
The Wedding of River Song 3

Average Score 4.31

Christmas Specials:
The Runaway Bride 4
A Christmas Carol 4
The Snowmen 4
The Christmas Invasion 3
Voyage of the Damned 3
The Next Doctor 3
The End of Time Part One 3
The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe 3
The Time of the Doctor 3

Average Score 3.33

By Doctor:

# Doctor Rating
1 Hartnell Incomplete
2 Troughton Incomplete
3 Pertwee Incomplete
4 T. Baker Incomplete
5 Davison 3.45
6 C. Baker 2.64
7 McCoy Incomplete
8 McGann 4.00
9 Eccleston 3.69
10 Tennant 3.53
11 Smith 3.70
12 Capaldi Incomplete

Anyway – here are my ratings for the seasons that I have seen completely (caveat re: Season 34, as it is still in progress, but of interest in the comparison):

Series Rating
Series 10 3.80
Series 11 3.60
Series 12 3.40
Series 13 4.17 <– Highest rated season (Terror of the Zygons to Seeds of Doom)
Series 14 3.67
Series 16 3.00
Series 19…[Read more]

@Craig If I spiff up the spreadsheet, maybe you can put it as a downloadable file somewhere on the forum, so that other users can input their data? And maybe pull together some charts that would show how our community feels about each story?

@blenkinsopthebrave @DrBen

The spreadsheet was fun to do – I was able to cut the data in many ways – for example I was able to do averages of categories, such as the Christmas Specials, the Paternoster Gang episodes, River Song Episodes or Dalek Episodes.

I was rating stories (BG) and episodes (AG). This means that The War Games gets a single…[Read more]

I’ve just been playing with some spreadsheets, and I’ve put together some personal ratings for all of the Doctor Who stories that I’ve seen in their entirety. I also decided to see, based on those scores, how each series compared with the others. So, if anyone is interested:
As you can see, I’ve by no means seen all the episodes of Doctor Who, but…[Read more]

@FlirtingDinosaur I think the Doctor made the TARDIS go into siege mode. didn’t he say something along the line of “I was able to turn on the siege mode just before the train hit. but there’s not enough power to turn it of.” ?

but I agree that the failing of the life support was due to the power loss, otherwise it’d be a pretty pointless mode[Read more]

@Arbutus The Doctor was quite nice to Rigsy at the end, it was good to see that.

It was almost as if the Doctor knew that he didn’t have a malevolent backstory just waiting to cause a climactic end-of-season finale!

Or it could just have been the fact that he didn’t set off the Doctor’s newfound anti-squaddie prejudice.

I thought that Rigsy’s…[Read more]

@FlirtingDinosaur This time at least one reflection pretty much kicks you in the face, when she’s talking to the Doctor while looking into an incredibly white mirror (at the aunties apartment, was it?) and for once she seems VERY sure of herself. But that while she is playing the Doctor.

I noticed that, too. But then I thought it might just be a…[Read more]

@Brewski No, then she should not have been uncertain about how the HFM died.

Perhaps she was trying to introduce some confusion into the psyche of the newly deceased?

With all the TARDIS resizing, I’m reminded of the denouement of the Time Meddler:

http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/File:A_Surprise_for_the_Monk_-_Doctor_Who_-_The_Time_Meddler_-_BBC

@ReboStar I managed to rip the clip with the UFO in.

I looked back on iPlayer, and the moment occurs at the 40 minutes 2 seconds mark. I wasn’t able to tell if it was a VFX shot or a plane in the background. It seemed to move faster than a plane!

@ScaryB Were the Boneless(?) draining power from the TARDIS? Were they accessing it through the Clara/Doctor “phone” link? The first victim we saw, and the policewoman were both on the phone when the attacks started.

There is definitely an ongoing phone motif in Clara’s story arc. Whether or not this is just an artifact of the show being about…[Read more]

@TardisBlueSky This may sound stupid, but I think Missy might be the Tardis.

It’s not a stupid suggestion. If I recall The Doctor’s Wife, SexyTARDIS did say to the 11th that this was the *only* time that they spoke. There’s a loophole there, as Missy hasn’t spoken to the Doctor!

Alternatively, there’s nothing preventing Missy being someone or…[Read more]