- The Mind Robber
- The Pirate Planet
- City of Death
- The Caves of Androzani
- Remembrance of the Daleks
- Ghost Light
- The Curse of Fenric
- Dalek
- The Impossible Planet
- Smith and Jones
- Silence in the Library
- The Waters of Mars
- A Christmas Carol
- Listen
- Face the Raven trilogy
- Thin Ice
- Extremis (not the other parts)
- World Enough and Time
- Demons of the Punjab
- Once, Upon Time
- Eve of the Daleks
- Wild Blue Yonder
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in reply to @hthrflwrs's post:
I haven't been caught up with Doctor Who in YEARS but watched the 60th anniversary specials, and Wild Blue Yonder honestly had me tempted to start watching again it was so good
Only problem I have with Wild Blue Yonder was the resolution with "a time machine would know!" felt very cheap as an ending, like a quick get out of jail free card that the Doctor could whip out at any possible moment. But that's more down to the show gradually personifying the TARDIS more and more even since Neil Gaiman basically made the TARDIS' sentience extremely and loudly canon haha
yeah that's fair! i personally think it works in WBY because it accentuates the aspect of "there's no fixing this solution; you're powerless and all you can hope to do is escape in the last second" (which is one of my favorite Rare Doctor Who Plotlines) but i totally get why that'd cheapen it for you
True, gotta love a Who story that's really an unsolvable puzzle box that leaves the Doctor and co Fucked Up afterwards, it definitely pulled that off. Also I guess it can be argued it's very rare for the TARDIS to behave the way it does because of that Battle Escape mode or whatever it was called that accidentally got turned back on when Donna spilled coffee all over the console, the Doctor does say he leaves it off because otherwise the TARDIS would ditch him every time he landed anywhere, so maybe I just need to watch the episode again sometime haha
it fucking rips. i really wish the other two parts lived up to the setup, but that's a hella hard act to follow
fwiw I thought Pyramid at the End of the World was still really good but it should've just been two parts because Lie of the Land was just stupid beginning to end. Extremis/Pyramid would've fucked as a two-parter but Moffat had to stretch the concept way further than it could hold up to.
tbh i think i would add midnight to this list. also it's really hard for me not to knock silence in the library down a point or two for being the origin point of some of my least favorite stuff moffat did, but you're probably right that it belongs here if viewed in isolation
that man was the king of taking an idea that absolutely rules as a one off and ruining it by making it load bearing for the plot of an entire season
My favorite part of the River Song stuff was after like seven seasons of television I was left asking myself "So... is he married to her, or not?" Gotta love the Moff!