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Sunday, May 19th, 2013
3:38 pm [freakytigger]	It's the end of the season but the moment has been etc etc I am going to leave the End Of Season omnipoll to people who have, er, actually seen all the episodes and can list the monsters and supporting cast. BUT there is another part of the End Of Season ritual I do feel competent to address: do we want to visit the PUB and talk about Who? (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, May 18th, 2013
7:51 pm [meserach]	The Name of the Doctor Well, then. Poll #1914184 Reactipoll 7.13 Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 20 How good was "The Name of the Doctor"? View Answers Mean: 7.20 Median: 8 Std. Dev 2.23 1 1 (5.0%) 2 0 (0.0%) 3 1 (5.0%) 4 0 (0.0%) 5 1 (5.0%) 6 4 (20.0%) 7 1 (5.0%) 8 6 (30.0%) 9 4 (20.0%) 10 2 (10.0%) What was the best bit? View Answers What was the worst bit? View Answers (14 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, May 17th, 2013
6:38 pm [meserach]	Nightmare in Survey Only just got round to seeing this! Poll #1914030 Reactipoll 7.12 Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 20 How good was "Nightmare in SIlver"? View Answers Mean: 6.00 Median: 6 Std. Dev 1.86 1 0 (0.0%) 2 1 (5.3%) 3 1 (5.3%) 4 2 (10.5%) 5 3 (15.8%) 6 3 (15.8%) 7 6 (31.6%) 8 2 (10.5%) 9 0 (0.0%) 10 1 (5.3%) What was the best bit? View Answers What was the worst bit? View Answers While we're here: Poll #1914031 Anticipoll 7.13 Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 23 How good is "The Name of the Doctor" going to be? View Answers Mean: 6.53 Median: 6 Std. Dev 2.03 1 0 (0.0%) 2 0 (0.0%) 3 1 (5.9%) 4 2 (11.8%) 5 3 (17.6%) 6 3 (17.6%) 7 2 (11.8%) 8 3 (17.6%) 9 1 (5.9%) 10 2 (11.8%) The Doctor's name will: View Answers be something alien-sounding and weird (Tlerk, Gabblebreen) 2 (3.7%) be something normal-sounding, bathetic and mundane (Dave, Bob) 2 (3.7%) be the same as a figure from history or myth (Merlin or something) 3 (5.6%) be the same as a character from the recent history of the show (River? God knows how that would make sense) 1 (1.9%) be something from the deep history of the show's continuity (Rassilon? Omega? "the Other"? Romana? I would laugh.) 2 (3.7%) be something vaguely cosmic and Important sounding (Imagination, Hope) 1 (1.9%) be disappointing 10 (18.5%) not be a good idea to have based a series long arc around 13 (24.1%) not actually be revealed in the episode 16 (29.6%) be something else I'll specify in the comments 4 (7.4%) (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
2:14 pm [atommickbrane]	The Bells of St. Bvm (courtesy Old Jokes dept) verlaine has noted in the comments to the last Reactipoll: So this is the season so far SCIENTIFICALLY RANKED by diggerdydum correspondents: 1. The Angels Take Manhattan 2. Hide 3. Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS 4. The Crimson Horror 5. The Snowmen 6. The Power of Three 7. Dinosaurs on a Spaceship 8. Asylum of the Daleks 9. The Bells of St John 10. Cold War 11. A Town Called Mercy 12. The Rings of Akhaten Does that seem reasonable at this stage? What do we think? Personally I'm quite happy with this, although I'd switch the Snowmen and The Bells of St. John, put the Power of Three down (I enjoyed it but plenty flaws innit) and jump Dinosaurs on a Spaceship much further up, because it was GRATE. Akhaten definitely in the right position. (I've still not seen A Town Called Mercy and don't really feel inspired to? I mean, I've seen the Gunfighters and those scars are OLD and run deep, know what I mean)? (I have mentioned this in pub to a few diggerdybots, but I never saw Dinosaurs on a Spaceship when it aired - I saw it just before the start of S7 pt 2, if that's what we MUST call it, and I think it's the thing that actually tipped me over from just liking Matt Smith to really, really rating him... of course, by then I'd seen most of the rest so had the more 'serious' episodes to bear in mind, but yeh! Chibnail! Who knew? Also, Nefertiti + Lestrade >> Amy and Rory. Let's gently move on from the Mitchell & Webb-bots though who I thought were rub. Oooh "challops"...) PS: I've gone back and added the 'reactipoll' tag to untagged entries if (like me!) you haven't voted for a bunch of them and want to HAVE YORE SAY. (20 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, May 5th, 2013
1:55 am [meserach]	The Crimson Poller Virago? Poll #1912068 Reactipoll 7.12 Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 22 How good was "The Crimson Horror"? View Answers Mean: 7.65 Median: 8 Std. Dev 1.82 1 0 (0.0%) 2 1 (5.0%) 3 0 (0.0%) 4 0 (0.0%) 5 1 (5.0%) 6 2 (10.0%) 7 3 (15.0%) 8 6 (30.0%) 9 5 (25.0%) 10 2 (10.0%) What was the best bit? View Answers What was the worst bit? View Answers Children on the TARDIS? View Answers Yes 6 (15.8%) No 6 (15.8%) Maybe 7 (18.4%) Adric klaxon 8 (21.1%) The Doctor is enough of a child for anyone surely 7 (18.4%) They are the target audience I guess 4 (10.5%) (29 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
1:02 pm [dubdobdee]	important (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 28th, 2013
1:50 am [meserach]	Journey to the Centick of the TARDIS The sodding Eye of Harmony! Right there! On the screen! Poll #1910870 Reactipoll 7.11 probably Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 15 How good was "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS"? View Answers Mean: 7.36 Median: 8 Std. Dev 1.59 1 0 (0.0%) 2 0 (0.0%) 3 1 (7.1%) 4 0 (0.0%) 5 0 (0.0%) 6 2 (14.3%) 7 3 (21.4%) 8 6 (42.9%) 9 1 (7.1%) 10 1 (7.1%) What was the best bit? View Answers What was the worst bit? View Answers Jules Verne pun titles! View Answers Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS 1 (4.2%) Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Devils 1 (4.2%) Around The World in Eighty Daleks 4 (16.7%) From the Earth to the Moonbase 1 (4.2%) A Floating City of Death 1 (4.2%) Five Weeping Angels in a Balloon 1 (4.2%) move over pollsmith I can do better (in the comments) 0 (0.0%) actually you just exhausted all the titles I knew 2 (8.3%) you looked at Wikipedia to make this, didn't you 6 (25.0%) tbh most Jules Verne titles would work for Doctor Who episodes as-is 7 (29.2%) (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, April 26th, 2013
1:37 pm [atommickbrane]	set the controls for the heart of the TARDIS It's a lesser-spotted Anticipoll! Cor! Poll #1910626 Spliiish! Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 14 How good do you reckon "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS" is going to be? View Answers Mean: 7.50 Median: 7.5 Std. Dev 1.26 1 0 (0.0%) 2 0 (0.0%) 3 0 (0.0%) 4 0 (0.0%) 5 1 (8.3%) 6 1 (8.3%) 7 4 (33.3%) 8 4 (33.3%) 9 1 (8.3%) 10 1 (8.3%) Let's play TARDIS bingo! View Answers swimming pool 10 (26.3%) jungle gym 1 (2.6%) graveyard 2 (5.3%) cloister bell 8 (21.1%) salad of all the roundels 1 (2.6%) terribly drawn creepy watercolours of ALL companions 2 (5.3%) an extremely well executed origami model of Mickey 6 (15.8%) Matt Smith's pants 3 (7.9%) Clara's second-best pair of gloves 3 (7.9%) you've missed a bit! 2 (5.3%) What else are you hoping to see in the journey through the TARDIS? View Answers I still haven't seen last weeks, and only just managed to get around to watching the teasers for this one. From descriptions of the forthcoming ep that people had told me, and hearing that it is written by the dude who did "Curse of the Black Spot" (meh) and the two worst Sherlocks, I didn't have high expectations. But the trailers actually look... PRETTY GRATE! So let's have a poll Here be trailers, if you feel like taking a look... (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
4:17 pm [dubdobdee]	belated missed-ep “Lytton must be exterminated when it is convenient” ketchup In which 5IVE and disgruntled chums help a revenant* but unrepentent DAVROS to infect his multitudinous metal brood with MORGELLONS the MORVELLAN DISCO VIRUS, as a reward for getting him out of jail. Or something. *Fancy word for RESURRECTION, tho the Daleks themselves are merely (as usual) returning A notoriously very-hard-to-follow DO-YOU-SEE allegory for the utter lack of honour among the galactically villainous. Doesn't help that from the off it's a switchback of mistaken identity via doubles: meaning that coppers and soldiers and even daleks are not who you immediately think they are. Doesn't help that I watched it more than a year ago, before various distractions intervened and derailed me, and haven't revisited (bcz my "method" does not allow me to). So instead of discussing the plot in any detail, I'm going to bore on abt the Daleks, turning the tables you might say hohoho *sigh* The setting: two places and two time (Butler's Wharf and a prison ship in space; 1984 and THE UNSPECIFIED FUTURE ) have been superglued together by a time-corridor. The prison ship is under attack by a space cruiser. The upshot: a four-or-more sided battle where everyone can seemingly suborn everyone else, no one knows whose masterplan is what, or why anyone is doing anything. ( Matters get no clearer under the cut...Collapse ) (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, April 20th, 2013
7:32 pm [meserach]	One-Syllable Titles Aren't Good For Tick Puns Poll #1909449 Reactipoll 7.10 Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 21 How good was "Hide"? View Answers Mean: 8.10 Median: 8 Std. Dev 1.34 1 0 (0.0%) 2 0 (0.0%) 3 0 (0.0%) 4 0 (0.0%) 5 2 (10.0%) 6 0 (0.0%) 7 2 (10.0%) 8 9 (45.0%) 9 4 (20.0%) 10 3 (15.0%) What was the best bit? View Answers What was the worst bit? View Answers (14 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 18th, 2013
1:08 pm [atommickbrane]	On the subject of a Certain Returning Doctor Poll #1909109 Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 22 Tennants is back View Answers Classic - about time too 8 (38.1%) DUD - i prefer mine in tins at the BUS STOP 13 (61.9%) Who could they have had instead? View Answers John Sim - what's he up to these days? 7 (13.5%) Benny (on the loose) 4 (7.7%) Benny (tied to a tree) 3 (5.8%) Iris Wildthyme 6 (11.5%) K9 on a dry stone wall 8 (15.4%) MICKEY 8 (15.4%) Reggie Yates from Mighty Truck of Stuff 4 (7.7%) Jamie McCrimmons Dirk 7 (13.5%) Other 5 (9.6%) Other? (ps I SAID 'DIRK'). View Answers (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, April 14th, 2013
9:01 pm [atommickbrane]	Cold War Poll #1908319 Polled War Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 23 How good was "Cold War"? View Answers Mean: 6.50 Median: 7 Std. Dev 2.06 1 0 (0.0%) 2 2 (9.1%) 3 0 (0.0%) 4 2 (9.1%) 5 2 (9.1%) 6 2 (9.1%) 7 7 (31.8%) 8 4 (18.2%) 9 2 (9.1%) 10 1 (4.5%) What was the best bit? View Answers What was the worst bit? View Answers ICE WOZ!!! View Answers ICE WOZ! 8 (20.5%) Bottle episode! 8 (20.5%) Red - red with the blood of HUMANITY, more like! 7 (17.9%) "and I'm hungry like the woooo-oolf" 11 (28.2%) Etc etc 5 (12.8%) Yet again, this poll took three bloody efforts to post (including one hastily deleted mis-post to the Sweet Valley High community, my bad) - can't the Doc wave the sonic at LJ these days? Also, we appear to be calling it "the sonic"? Is that... cool? (15 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, April 8th, 2013
11:26 pm [meserach]	The Ticks of Akhaten SUSAN REFERENCE KLAXON Poll #1907150 Reactipoll 7.8 or 7b.2 or 233 or 3.8 by production codes I guess Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 18 How good was "The Rings of Akhaten"? View Answers Mean: 5.61 Median: 6 Std. Dev 2.50 1 1 (5.6%) 2 2 (11.1%) 3 1 (5.6%) 4 2 (11.1%) 5 1 (5.6%) 6 5 (27.8%) 7 2 (11.1%) 8 1 (5.6%) 9 2 (11.1%) 10 1 (5.6%) What was the best bit? View Answers What was the worst bit? View Answers (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, March 30th, 2013
7:07 pm [meserach]	The Ticks of St. John "It's a time machine. You never have to wait for breakfast." Poll #1905430 Reactipoll 7b.1 (or 7.6 or I don't even know any more) Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 24 How good was "The Bells of St John"? View Answers Mean: 6.74 Median: 7 Std. Dev 1.82 1 1 (4.3%) 2 0 (0.0%) 3 0 (0.0%) 4 0 (0.0%) 5 2 (8.7%) 6 8 (34.8%) 7 5 (21.7%) 8 4 (17.4%) 9 1 (4.3%) 10 2 (8.7%) What was the best bit? View Answers What was the worst bit? View Answers (32 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
10:11 am [atommickbrane]	The roast suckling pig of Saint John Good grief, LJ makes it hard to do polls these days... cross your fingers this works, Oswalds! Poll #1904690 The Balls of Saint John (it's like they don't even want me to TRY any more) Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 22 How good do you think 'The Bells of Saint John' is going to be? View Answers Mean: 7.27 Median: 7 Std. Dev 1.48 1 0 (0.0%) 2 0 (0.0%) 3 0 (0.0%) 4 2 (9.1%) 5 1 (4.5%) 6 0 (0.0%) 7 10 (45.5%) 8 6 (27.3%) 9 1 (4.5%) 10 2 (9.1%) MONKS! Are they cool, or not? View Answers COOL! 16 (72.7%) NOOL! (this means 'not') 6 (27.3%) Here is a space to talk about your favourite Monks, whether they be Meddling, OCD-ridden detectives or... other. View Answers Current Mood: hungry? (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 27th, 2012
7:56 pm [meserach]	He's sulking in the air... He's emo in the moonlit sky... Poll #1887394 Reactipoll 7.wobs Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 34 How good was "The Snowmen"? View Answers Mean: 7.39 Median: 8 Std. Dev 1.37 1 0 (0.0%) 2 0 (0.0%) 3 1 (3.0%) 4 0 (0.0%) 5 1 (3.0%) 6 5 (15.2%) 7 9 (27.3%) 8 12 (36.4%) 9 3 (9.1%) 10 2 (6.1%) What was the best bit? View Answers What was the worst bit? View Answers Early speculation: what's the deal with Clara Oswin Oswald coming back to life/being all over time? View Answers Jenna Louise-Coleman? View Answers Yes 22 (14.4%) No 1 (0.7%) Maybe 8 (5.2%) WOOF (Official Something For The Dads tickybox) 10 (6.5%) Ugh another one wants to sex the doctor zzz (Official "Boo Kissing" answer) 9 (5.9%) Too hyper-flirty 4 (2.6%) Too Mary-Sue smart 4 (2.6%) Too conceptually convoluted (already) 5 (3.3%) Actually I like flirty 15 (9.8%) Actually I like smart 24 (15.7%) Actually I like convoluted 14 (9.2%) Boo not a Dalek 8 (5.2%) I trust Moffat to make her good eventually 6 (3.9%) I trust Moffat to make her awful eventually 11 (7.2%) It would be better if Stark/Madam Vastra/Jenny/etc. were the companion instead 12 (7.8%) (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 23rd, 2012
11:07 am [atommickbrane]	Anticipoll: The Snowmen Poll #1886490 snow fronts, snow tricks, no snowman politics Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 24 How good do you think "The Snowmen" is (are?) going to be? View Answers Mean: 6.74 Median: 7 Std. Dev 2.11 1 1 (4.3%) 2 0 (0.0%) 3 1 (4.3%) 4 1 (4.3%) 5 3 (13.0%) 6 3 (13.0%) 7 3 (13.0%) 8 7 (30.4%) 9 3 (13.0%) 10 1 (4.3%) Prequel/minisode for those who haven't seen it. FUN FACT: new companion Jenna-Louise Coleman went to my local private secondary school: the delightful bottle-green sporting Arnold. The same school as Chris Lowe from the Pet Shop Boys! Make of that what you will! Ever since I found out that CL went there I can't stop myself from picturing him in green shorts. I wonder if the same thing will happen with Clara. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, October 12th, 2012
6:15 pm [meserach]	P.S. (Comment on this)
Saturday, September 29th, 2012
8:07 pm [meserach]	The Angels Tick Manhattan Plenty of angels, plenty of weeping... Poll #1869445 Reactipoll 7.5 Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 28 How good was "The Angels Take Manhattan"? View Answers Mean: 8.37 Median: 8 Std. Dev 1.42 1 0 (0.0%) 2 0 (0.0%) 3 0 (0.0%) 4 0 (0.0%) 5 1 (3.7%) 6 2 (7.4%) 7 4 (14.8%) 8 7 (25.9%) 9 5 (18.5%) 10 8 (29.6%) What was the best bit? View Answers What was the worst bit? View Answers (27 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 27th, 2012
8:21 pm [meserach]	...Then They Take Berlin? Poll #1869034 Anticpoll 7.5 Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 16 How good do you think "The Angels Take Manhattan" is going to be? View Answers Mean: 7.12 Median: 7 Std. Dev 1.69 1 0 (0.0%) 2 0 (0.0%) 3 1 (6.2%) 4 0 (0.0%) 5 1 (6.2%) 6 3 (18.8%) 7 5 (31.2%) 8 2 (12.5%) 9 3 (18.8%) 10 1 (6.2%) (3 Comments |Comment on this)