Remember what I was saying about children? Please, by all means, let’s have a whole comedy episode taking place in a school. Ultimately nothing happens, and it would have happened if the Doctor were there or not, which is the hallmark of an episode I say “nope” about. A forest suddenly, overnight, grows to engulf not just London, but the whole world, and one of Clara’s students gets weird visions (“The foughts….the fooooooooughts!”) that tell the Doctor that the plants are protecting the Earth from a solar flare. I know the show is sort of for kids, and sometimes the occasional child can make for a great episode, but this series’ fixation on Clara’s students really got on my last nerve.
#Doctor who specials between season 8 and season 9 series
In an incredibly strong back half of a series that has (spoilers) four of my top five stories, right in the middle there was this story, written by Frank Cottrell Boyce. There’s no beating around the bush here (pun intended), this episode is dumb.
Here we go! 12 – “In the Forest of the Night” Also I’m including the Christmas special “Last Christmas” in this list, because it seems to fit thematically much better with Series 8 than Series 9. This was a series of almost entirely single, standalone episodes, the same as most of Series 7, though I’m going by official story-numbering to denote the one two-parter. These are my personal choices, of course, and your experience, I’m sure, will vary. I really appreciated this aspect in retrospect, but it didn’t necessarily make me like the individual episodes any more than I already did.Īnyway, to that end (and because I did it for Series 7 lo those many years ago) I’ve decided to rank Series 8 (and later 9). It was a weird co-dependent relationship, and it even led Clara to lie to her boyfriend. That series, quite different from all of the rest of New Who, dealt with a Doctor and a companion who don’t get along very well, but also desperately need each other.
I took a look at Series 8, which I ultimately liked but it took a while. He started out incredibly abrasive and shouty - prone to telling people to shut up - and he’s become one of the most passionately compassionate Doctors of the bunch. In light of recent news that Doctor Who Series 10 will be premiering on April 15, and that it’ll be star Peter Capaldi‘s final series, I’ve been reflecting on the Twelfth Doctor’s seemingly all-too-short reign and how much it’s changed even just in the two series we’ve seen.
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