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October 13, 2016

Shabcast 26 – Dark City

Shabcast time again. Listen and/or download here.

This time I’m once again joined by Jane, Shana, and Daniel. We talk about Dark City, the classic surreal-SF-noir from 1998… which you really should see, if you haven’t already. Trust me on this.

Also, my tetchy, strident, and highly-opinionated Bengal cat Quizzy joins in at several points. Which kept us all on our toes.

If you’re interested in Dark City, TMBDOS also did an episode about it, way back when. Here.

Oh, and Jane recently did a stellar guest turn on Kit Power’s Robocop podcast, here.

Thanks for listening, as ever.

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October 12, 2016

Comics Reviews (October 12th, 2016)

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Deathstroke #4

Fine such as things are, with the book’s usual problem that Priest’s out-of-sequence storytelling can get in the way. But I’m dropping the book because when I got to page three of Comixology today I found myself staring at Doom Patrol #2 and Britannia #2 and going “well shit, those were both good books but this is already a big week.” Which is an old complaint, but still a big one – a six-book week fucking hurts when $3.99 is the normal price of a book. And when you have three that are $4.99+ it’s brutal. And frankly, this was the disposable one – being a perfectly nice and fairly clever superhero book just isn’t enough. There are addictions I’ll grudgingly feed, but frankly Deathstroke isn’t one of them, and it kept me from being able to afford a probably better book by dint of coming up too early on the list of new releases. So it’s dropped. God I hate comics.

Doom Patrol #2 (Bought by a reader)

The excessive weirdness of the first issue settles out, but it leaves a distinct “Grant Morrison fanfic” vibe in its wake. Inoffensive and even a bit fun – probably a better comic than the first issue by any reasonable standards. But its not even trying to be interesting to anyone who hasn’t read Morrison’s Doom Patrol. Probably done with this. (Oh, and dear reader who bought the comic and wanted to chat with me about it – send me an e-mail if you would.)

Cinema Purgatorio #6

An off issue for me, with the title story not really doing anything for me (or perhaps more accurately doing too many things to actually have any of them land particularly well), Code Pru being weak as well, and the backing two being their usual ballasty selves. Modded’s great, of course, but this is a $6.99 book on a week I’m already bitter as fuck about what my comics cost, so yeah, kinda stuck resenting this for existing this time around.

Darth Vader #25

In no way helped by the delay to its publication, as it means that a somewhat slender conclusion that could have worked coming off of momentous pace and a brilliant, weird previous issue is instead just somewhat slender. Aphra’s resolution is nice. Really, it’s all nice – a solidly OK stick-the-landing conclusion to what’s never been my favorite Gillen book anyway. I look forward to the inherent lunacy of Aphra’s solo series.

Lazarus #25

A solid, focused issue hingeing on a single character interaction between two developed-enough characters that it would be hard to screw up. Sure enough, Ruck and Lark don’t, and if there’s a shred of honesty to Joanna’s spiel to Forever there’s even some interesting ways for the book to move forward from here. I suspect this book is done surprising me, and I admit I’ve gone off Rucka a bit between being sorely disappointed by Black Magick and Wonder Woman, but this is still solid more months than not. …

October 12, 2016

Permanent Saturday: All cats can see futures, and see echoes of the past

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With deepest apologies to Chris Stangl, Permanent Saturday is a semiregular critical exploration of Jim Davis’ comic strips Garfield and U.S. Acres/Orson’s Farm.

In Garfield, the space-time continuum is an arrow that moves from left to right. Movement across comic panels corresponds to movement through both time and space and, while it is often played with, the law itself is inviolate. So Garfield’s physical positioning within the strip itself reinforces the central joke of this strip: With his eyes closed, the cat faces left and declares that he is “contemplating the future”. But because he is facing left he is, in fact, looking into the past. Indeed, as this is the first panel, he’s looking so far into the past it extends into his own prehistoric deep time, as the only thing to the left of the first panel is the first border of the strip itself, the boundary of his own reality. Garfield realises his mistake in panel two: Note how while he’s still facing left, his eyes are now open, and, as this is the second panel, he is explicitly gazing into his own immediate personal history.

(My fellow Alice Aficionados may catch some subtle Looking-Glass motifs here that also tie into the central joke, but while Garfield can and does play with Alice on occasion, I don’t think it’s as pronounced, or really relevant, in this particular instance.)

The unfolding present only becomes the past once we stop to reflect on it (and let’s flag that to return to later). The first punchline, the humourous dissonance and absurdity of a cat who can’t tell the difference between the past and the future, is subsumed and undercut by the winking acknowledgment of the rules and realities of comic strip time. And indeed, without missing a beat, the feline sage delivers a second by confessing that his pasts and futures “look a lot alike”.

The two biggest criticisms of Garfield and Jim Davis’ writing are, curiously enough, the two most mutually incompatible. According to its critics, Garfield is somehow simultaneously a boring, unfunny, patronizing hack job blatantly only written to cynically pander to cat owners and start a merchandising empire that has been this way since day 1 *and* a brilliantly subversive postmodern deconstruction of the comic strip medium that used to be hilarious and cutting edge in the 1980s and early 1990s but stopped being that at some point. Whether this cutoff point is pegged at 1995, 1997, 2000, 2006, 2008 or 2013 tends to change depending on who’s making the argument at any given time, and that there are so many dates given is probably telling. But Jon’s last name is Arbuckle, not Schrödinger, and Garfield can’t be both at once. The strip has outlasted all of its critics and attacks, and is well aware of the reputation it has amongst the comic strip intellegentsia, hence jokes like this one: Garfield’s pasts looks a lot like his futures (and his presence: Note how he’s staring straight ahead, out of the strip and at us, in that last panel) because not much in his world ever changes.…

October 10, 2016

Mr. Robot Season 2: A Furious Defense

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The recently completed second season of Mr. Robot has served as an occasion for critics to put the knife in. As with most critical maulings there’s a sense that the fix was in. Ambitious and genuinely iconoclastic shows like Mr. Robot don’t get to triumph for long before people decide they need to be brought down a peg. But there’s been something darkly amusing about watching critics throw themselves at the task of slagging off Mr. Robot and repeatedly failing to produce anything more insightful than essays that can be summarized as “I wish this literally revolutionary show was more conventional.” Still, as entertaining as it is to watch nominally intelligent people completely fuck up at their jobs, it’s left something of a deficit in actually decent and coherent criticism of Mr. Robot this year, with only the AV Club managing to avoid confusing the show with CSI: Cyber.

Let’s start by puncturing the usual lines of critique, since explaining why they’re wrong-headed is a good way of getting at what’s actually going on here. The big one centers on the seventh-episode revelation that Elliot has not in fact been staying with his mother but has been in prison since the season premiere. We’ll set aside for the moment the basic structural question of why this had to happen (although I’ve got some sympathy for anyone who wishes it had taken an episode less than it did) and look instead at the way in which it’s meant to be read, and particularly at those who have suggested it was a problem that people guessed the twist.

Obviously the thing to look back to is the equivalent “Elliot’s perceptions as revealed to the viewer are misleading” twist of season one, which, recall, was considered such a massive bombshell that it was treated as a pre-commercial cliffhanger, lampshaded with the line “are you really going to make me say it out loud,” and guessed by essentially everybody as of the first or second episode of the season with the only tension being “are they really just building to a Fight Club rip-off?” Which is to say that complaining that you could see the twist coming rather misses the point. Indeed, the whole adage about “fool me once, shame on you” springs to mind, especially with this season’s gleefully disingenuous promise not to do it again after the reveal.

In other words, if you’re imagining Mr. Robot as a show whose twists are first and foremost about surprise you’re doing it very, very wrong. Indeed, aside from its various narrative purposes (which are substantial), the major point of the “he’s actually in prison” twist is to scream, as loudly as possible, at any audience members who are watching the show without actively questioning what is and isn’t being shown to pay attention. It’s not just “not a surprise,” it’s an overt warning that the audience should expect this kind of thing. Sam Esmail has all but said as much in interviews, asking reporters what about the season they guessed and agreeing with them when they identify the major twists.…

October 9, 2016

The Eruditorum Press Doctor Who Poll Wrapup

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All right. Let’s go through those extra questions, then we’ll get on to some overall thoughts on this ridiculous endeavor.

Favorite Doctor

First the options that got one vote, namely Arabella Weir, River Song, The Curator, The Other, and “The one in the early Target books, written by Dicks, Hulke, and Letts.” But of those getting multiple votes…

Jon Pertwee: 3

Clara Oswald: 4

Splendind Chap, All of Them and Variations: 5

Colin Baker: 8

Peter Davison: 9

William Hartnell: 11

Paul McGann: 11

David Tennant: 17

Christopher Eccleston: 24

Matt Smith: 47

Tom Baker: 50

Patrick Troughton: 52

Sylvester McCoy: 62

Peter Capaldi: 63

Best Companion

Single votes were cast for the Brigadier, Cass, Elisabeth Klein, Ian Chesterton, Izzy S, Kamelion, Katarina, Lucie Miller, Mickey Smith, Molly O’Sullivan, Nyssa, Peri, Rigsy, Sara Kingdom, Shayde, Tegan Jovanka, and Zoe Heriot

Fitz Kreiner: 2

Frobisher: 2

Steven Taylor: 2

The TARDIS: 2

Wilf: 2

Liz Shaw: 3

Captain Jack Harkness: 3

Charley Pollard: 3

Vicki: 3

K-9: 4

Jamie McCrimmon: 5

River Song: 5

Evelyn Smythe: 6

Rose Tyler: 6

Martha Jones: 6

Jo Grant: 7

Bernice Summerfield: 9

Rory Pond: 11

Leela: 15

Romana: 16 (One specifying Mary Tamm, Nine specifying Lalla Ward, Five not specifying, and one specifying both. I count them separately, personally, but there you go.)

Amy Pond: 16 (Votes for Amy/Rory as a combo were split equitably, though one voter was adamant that was what they meant.)

Barbara Wright: 17

Sarah Jane Smith: 39

Donna Noble: 44

Ace: 46

Clara Oswald: 76

Classic vs New Series

Classic Series: 112

New Series: 165

Searching For Fuchal: Child Abuse and Authoritarianism (Better Than Life)

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I guess it’s time to fess up: I’ve been a bit remiss in posting content for the last few weeks. Life is hectic, work is stressful, and producing podcast content (let alone essays) is possibly a bit more time-consuming than it seems.

That said, I’m trying to catch up this weekend, and if you’re a fan of fairly dark discussions of the realities of authoritarian, abusive parenting told through a comedic lens then you’re in luck, as Shana and I discuss Red Dwarf: Better Than Life on this week’s Searching for Fuchal. It’s a bit of a mess of an episode structurally, but gives us the best look to date at Rimmer’s psychology, the way we as people process grief, and the sins of the fathers being visited upon the sons. Also: the way Yvonne McGruder plays into Rimmer’s relationship patterns, some silliness involving the way the Cat uses utensils, and a non-ironic use of industrial alternative rock for the final song. (Sorry about that.) Obviously, this one has quite a bit of chat that may be disturbing for some listeners (including a reference to Fred Phelps’ abuse of his nine children), so I completely understand those who need to skip it.

Tomorrow I hope to give you guys a podcast episode I’m not on, as Big Damn Shiny Heroes reboots and everyone gets the Firefly coverage they deserve, rather than that I’d like to provide. …

October 8, 2016

The Eruditorum Press Doctor Who Poll Results: The Top 50

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And now for the grand finale. Though not before I make one last stab at pointing out that if you want Class reviews and don’t back the Eruditorum Press Patreon, you’re gonna want to change that, as there’s no way those are going to happen if you don’t.

50: Kill the Moon (57 Points, 8 First Place, 8 Last Place, 13 Downvotes)

This may be the Marmite king of the poll. I know at least some of the last place/downvotes were openly trolling me, which is a bit aggravating, if only because I’m genuinely curious how it would have done without that. But it made the top 50 by the skin of its teeth and I’m perfectly happy with that. Frankly, I wouldn’t want my favorite story not to be a bit Marmite.

49: Alien Bodies (58 Points, 1 First Place, 44 Non-Televised)

Lawrence Miles’s best placing, as well as the highest-placed BBC Books novel. Or if you’d prefer the highest-placed Faction Paradox book, but to be fair, not even the Faction Paradox Wiki counts it as such.

48: Inferno (61 Points, 1 First Place, 2 Downvotes)

Still overrated.

47: Dark Water/Death in Heaven (61 Points, 3 First Place, 3 Last Place, 6 Downvotes)

Highest-placed Cybermen story.

46: Turn Left (63 Points, 2 First Place, 1 Downvote)

45: An Unearthly Child (64 Votes, 4 First Place)

Highest-placed Hartnell story. Which… OK. I did say people could vote for it on the basis of the first episode alone, I guess.

44: Paradise Towers (65 Points, 3 First Place, 2 Downvotes)

Highest-placed Kangs story. This was 230th in the Doctor Who Magazine 50th Anniversary poll, twelfth from bottom. Not the only low-ranked story to do way better here, but obviously the one I’m happiest about.

43: Human Nature (67 Points, 1 First Place, 41 Non-Televised)

This one’s tricky – I pretty much had to give it any and all votes cast for “Human Nature,” but every single TV two-parter had multiple votes submitted under the title of its first episode, which means that some of these votes were intended for the TV version. As a result, this surely has a slightly inflated placement while the TV version has a slightly lower one. Personally I think it’d be more accurate if you just swapped their places, but oh well. Highest-placed Virgin book, in any case.

42: Torchwood: Children of Earth (71 Points, 59 Non-Televised)

Highest-placed spin-off. I can’t imagine I have to link it.

41: Enlightenment (71 Points, 2 First Place)

40: The Robots of Death (73 Points)

39: The Chimes of Midnight (74 Points, 2 First Place, 56 Non-Televised)

Highest-placed McGann story.

38: Gridlock (74 Points, 3 First Place, 1 Downvote)

Delighted this one did so well – it was firmly mid-table in the Doctor Who Magazine poll, and strikes me as an almost textbook example of the sort of story this crowd likes more than average.

37: Vincent and the Doctor (77 Points, 2 First Place, 4 Downvotes)

36: Jubilee (78 Points, 2 First Place, 51 Non-Televised)

Highest-placed Big Finish story, non-televised story, and Colin Baker story.…

October 7, 2016

And I’m Not Young; I’m Closer to Death Than Birth (Yoshi’s Island)

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There’s only one way to begin this.

In a sense of course that’s a lie – there’s a vast and multifaceted history of side-scrolling platformers to which Yoshi’s Island was the momentary apex, countless aspects of which could be used as ways into the game. But I mean it simply in the literal sense that unlike its nominal predecessor, Yoshi’s Island does not have any sort of forking path in its initial worldmap, offering a straightforward and unambiguous “first level,” and indeed a wholly linear level structure through the entire game.

This is the difference between it and Super Mario World in a microcosm. The earlier game is a demo of the Super Nintendo – an advertisement for its supposedly infinite potential, and opens accordingly with a choice so as to signify the breadth of what can happen. Yoshi’s Island, on the other hand, exists deep in the twilight of the Super Nintendo, and less than a year before Super Mario 64 transitions the Mario franchise away from the side-scrolling mechanic that had defined it for its first decade. It is not a game about showing off possibility, but rather a late masterpiece – a final demonstration of the form before it passes into history. Its structure is fixed because it demonstrates perfection, not potential.

[Here’s a secret history for you. A retcon to Nintendo’s mascot, a new first adventure for him that predates not only his first discovery of the Mushroom Kingdom in Super Mario Bros., but all the existing prehistory of Mario as a carpenter, cement mixer, and monkey fighter. The already heavily frayed notion that Mario was ever just an ordinary Italian plumber gives way. Now he is always already bound into the history of the Mushroom Kingdom, his battle with Bowser now truly eternal, defining him from the very moment of his birth. His sibling relationship is also now set in stone from the first instant, Luigi always secondary, Mario always the adventuring hero.

But what’s inserted into the narrative is not just Mario’s role as a video game protagonist, but his relationship with Yoshi (like Toad at once a singular character and a species), who turns out not to have been a random dinosaur met at the start of Super Mario World but a guide and protector who has served throughout Mario’s life.]

Is it perfect? Well… no. It’s fun, certainly, and there are some good levels, but it ends up feeling like a collection of one-shot ideas – mechanics that are entertaining for a level (or, more often, a subsection of a level) but that can’t support much more than that. It’s not so much a boutique showcase of levels as a clear-out sale of ideas that were almost good enough for previous games.

In this regard it is also significant that the game is appreciably shorter than Super Mario World, which had 74 levels and 96 total exits to find. Yoshi’s Island has a mere six worlds of eight levels each, all with single exits, along with six bonus levels unlocked if you find all the items within a world, which is a grindy tedium for only the most obsessive of players.…

October 7, 2016

The Eruditorum Press Doctor Who Poll Results: 100-51

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At last we come to the top 100. Let’s dive in.

100: The Gunfighters (19 Points, 2 First Place, 1 Last Place, 2 Downvotes)

The “Jeremy Bentham” point of view went unrepresented until the last set of votes counted. I am disappointed in whoever cast that vote. DISAPPOINTED.

99: The Face of Evil (19 Points, 1 First Place)

98: The Husbands of River Song (19 Points, 1 First Place, 2 Downvotes)

97: The Romans (19 Points, 1 Downvote)

96: The Magician’s Apprentice/The Witch’s Familiar (19 Points, 4 Downvotes)

95: The Girl Who Died (20 Points, 2 Downvotes)

94: The Lodger (20 Points, 4 Downvotes)

93: Dead Romance (21 Points, 1 First Place, 7 Non-Televised)

Alternatively, this could be the highest-placed Faction Paradox book.

92: The Curse of Fatal Death (21 Points, 4 Non-Televised)

This is another of those ones where the order is really funny.

91: The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit (21 Points, 1 First Place, 2 Last Place, 3 Downvotes)

90: The Edge of Destruction (22 Points, 1 First Place, 1 Downvote)

89: Planet of the Ood (22 Points, 1 First Place, 1 Downvote)

88: The Green Death (23 Points, 1 First Place, 3 Downvotes)

87: The Invasion (23 Points)

86: The Sun Makers (24 Points, 1 Downvote)

85: The Also People (25 Points, 18 Non-Televised)

84: Terror of the Zygons (25 Points, 1 First Place, 1 Downvote)

83: The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone (25 Points, 1 Downvote)

82: The Waters of Mars (25 Points, 1 First Place, 2 Last Place, 3 Downvotes)

81: Castrovalva (27 Points, 1 First Place)

80: The God Complex (27 Points, 1 Downvote)

79: The Talons of Weng-Chiang (28 Points, 3 First Place, 4 Last Place, 13 Downvotes)

This was 6th in the most recent Doctor Who Magazine poll. One of the people to put it in first place apologized for doing so. Another person both upvoted and downvoted it. Personally, I’m pretty happy with the fact that it was beaten by

78: The Ambassadors of Death (29 Points, 1 First Place)

One voter went with The Ambassadors… OF DEATH. Another went with the even more emphatic The Ambassadors [Ker-Chow!] OF DEATH.

77. Flatline (30 Points)

76. Father’s Day (32 Points, 1 Last Place, 1 Downvote)

75: The Aztecs (32 Points, 2 Last Place)

74: Utopia (34 Points, 1 Downvote)

73: The Seeds of Doom (35 Points, 3 First Place, 3 Downvotes)

72: The Pyramids of Mars (35 Points, 2 Downvotes)

The two most overrated Hinchcliffe-era stories finish level on points and pleasantly far down.

71: Face the Raven (35 Points, 1 Last Place, 1 Downvote)

70: Horror of Fang Rock (36 Points)

69: The Evil of the Daleks (37 Points, 2 First Place)

68: The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon (37 Points, 1 First Place, 2 Last Place, 5 Downvotes)

67: The Three Doctors (38 Points)

66: Scherzo (38 Points, 31 Non-Televised)

65: The Night of the Doctor (38 Points, 16 Non-Televised)

Paul McGann’s highest “televised” story.

64: The Holy Terror (39 Points, 36 Non-Televised)

63: Mummy on the Orient Express (40 Points)

62: Rose (40 Points, 1 Downvote)

61: Snakedance (41 Points, 1 First Place, 1 Last Place, 1 Downvote)

The person who voted for “Dances with Snakes” flummoxed me until very late in the counting.…

October 6, 2016

The Eruditorum Press Doctor Who Poll Results: 200-101

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And now at last to the meat of the poll.

200: The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure (6 Points, 1 First Place, 1 Non-Televised)

199: The Turing Test (6 Points, 6 Non-Televised)

198: The Tides of TIme (6 Points, 6 Non-Televised)

197: Seeing I (6 Points, 6 Non-Televised)

196: The Marian Conspiracy (6 Points, 6 Non-Televised)

195: The Dying Days (6 Points, 6 Non-Televised)

194: The Time Travellers (6 Points, 6 Non-Televised)

193: The Room With No Doors (6 Points, 5 Non-Televised)

192: Lucie Miller/To the Death (6 Points, 7 Non-Televised, 2 Downvotes)

191: Just War (6 Points, 4 Non-Televised)

190: The Seeds of Death (6 Points)

189: Black Orchid (6 Points, 1 Downvote)

188: The Christmas Invasion (6 Points, 2 Downvotes)

187: Frontier in Space (6 Points, 1 Last Place, 1 Downvote)

186: TARDIS Eruditorum (7 Points, 1 First Place, 2 Non-Televised)

I’d have had fifteen points if I’d counted all the things that were entries of TARDIS Eruditorum here. Keep that in mind when we get to 138th place.

185: This Town Will Never Let Us Go (7 Points, 1 First Place, 1 Non-Televised)

184: Master (7 Points, 7 Non-Televised)

183: Davros (7 Points, 6 Non-Televised)

182: The Iron Legion (7 Points, 6 Non-Televised)

181: The Well-Mannered War (7 Points, 6 Non-Televised)

180: Deadline (7 Points, 5 Non-Televised)

179: Set Piece (7 Points, 5 Non-Televised)

178: The Year of Intelligent Tigers (7 Points, 5 Non-Televised)

177: Shada (7 Points, 1 First Place)

176: Death of the Doctor (7 Points, 3 Non-Televised)

175: Planet of the Spiders (7 Points)

174: The Tomb of the Cybermen (7 Points, 1 First Place, 11 Downvotes)

This was 23rd in the most recent Doctor Who Magazine poll.

173: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (8 Points, 1 First Place, 3 Non-Televised)

172: Festival of Death (8 Points, 7 Non-Televised)

171: …ish (8 Points, 7 Non-Televised)

170: Dark Eyes (8 Points, 6 Non-Televised)

169: The Book of the War (8 Points, 6 Non-Televised)

This is arguably the highest placed Faction Paradox book.

168: The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot (8 Points, 5 Non-Televised)

167: Full Circle (8 Points, 1 First Place)

166: The Keeper of Traken (8 Points)

165: State of Decay (8 Points)

Something of a consensus regarding Season Eighteen there.

164: The Curse of Peladon (8 Points, 1 Downvote)

What do you reckon the odds are that the downvote was aiming for Monster of Peladon and missed?

162: Campaign (9 Points, 1 First Place, 3 Non-Televised)

163: The One Doctor (9 Points, 8 Non-Televised)

161: The Daleks’ Masterplan (9 Points, 1 Downvote)

160: The Name of the Doctor (9 Points, 1 Last Place, 5 Downvotes)

159: The Infinity Doctors (10 Points, 8 Non-Televised)

158: Hide (10 Points, 1 Last Place, 3 Downvotes)

157: A Good Man Goes to War (10 Points, 2 Last Place, 12 Downvotes)

156: The Eleventh Doctor Comic (11 Points, 11 Non-Televised)

Combined a bunch of votes for individual issues and various parts of the series here.

155: The Scarlet Empress (11 Points, 1 First Place, 6 Non-Televised)

154: Continuity Errors (11 Points, 10 Non-Televised)

153: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (11 Points, 8 Non-Televised)

152: The Macra Terror (11 Points)

151: The Day of the Daleks (11 Points, 1 Downvote)

150: The Dæmons (11 Points, 3 Downvotes)

149: Terror of the Autons (11 Points, 1 Last Place)

148: The Daleks (11 Points, 5 Downvotes)

147: Asylum of the Daleks (11 Points, 1 Last Place, 2 Downvotes)

146: The Web Planet (11 Points, 1 Last Place, 6 Downvotes)

145: Smith and Jones (12 Points)

144: The Time Warrior (12 Points)

143: Doctor Who and the Silurians (12 Points, 1 Downvote)

142: The Space Museum (12 Points, 1 Downvote)

141: Boom Town (12 Points, 2 Downvotes)

140: The Unicorn and the Wasp (12 Points, 2 Last Place)

139: Shada (Gareth Roberts Novelization) (13 Points, 13 Non-Televised)

As promised, all non-televised votes for Shada went to this, which made it Shada’s highest placing.…

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