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butterflyI was originally planning on letting the poll run longer (and I am leaving it open), but the percentages for 'favorite episode' are so interestingly stable that I needed to post.
Poll Results as of Friday Night at 8:14 pm (PST)
Overall Favorite Episode
"The Christmas Invasion" is the clear winner, with 50% of the vote.
Interestingly, it's had between 40-50% of the vote since near the very beginning and stabilized at around 50% pretty quickly.
"The Runaway Bride" has consistently has around 25% of the vote (or, in other words, half the number of votes as TCI).
"The Unquiet Dead" and "The Next Doctor" have been in a dead heat since almost the beginning and have stayed at a bit over 10% each for most of that time.
This is utterly, utterly fascinating. The shape of the poll has, basically been exactly the same shape since it had around eight votes in it.
Episode with most fives
"The Christmas Invasion" got twenty-six standing ovations, but "The Runaway Bride" was close behind it, with twenty-three.
Episode with fewest ones, twos
"The Unquiet Dead" got four twos and zero ones.
Episode with the most ones
"Voyage of the Damned", by a landslide of fifteen. None of the others come close.
Now, if I set Ones at -2, Twos at -1, Threes at 0, Fours at +1, and Fives at +2, this is what you end up with:
TUD: +42
TCI: +71
TRB: +49
VotD: -34
TND: +50
Which has "The Next Doctor" showing more strongly than TUD. TCI is still the clear favorite.
Raw Numbers
The Unquiet Dead
One: 0
Two: 4
Three: 20
Four: 34
Five: 6
The Christmas Invasion
One: 3
Two: 3
Three: 4
Four: 28
Five: 26
The Runaway Bride
One: 1
Two: 5
Three: 15
Four: 20
Five: 23
The Voyage of the Damned
One: 15
Two: 19
Three: 16
Four: 13
Five: 1
The Next Doctor
One: 0
Two: 5
Three: 17
Four: 23
Five: 16
Favorite
TUD: 7
TCI: 32
TRB: 16
VotD: 1
TND: 7
What does it all mean? Nothing, really, except that it was kinda fun to do all that.
So, regarding the rating system that I used for this poll, where one = horrible; two = mostly bad; three = good and bad; four = mostly good; and five = excellent, I just thought I would share how much I adore this show by telling you where the lines for all the episodes fall for me.
Back in August, I listed all fifty-five episodes of New Who in order of preference. So, the episodes that would be considered number 'ones' would be the first three -- "Silence in the Library", "Forest of the Dead" and "Girl in the Fireplace".
I don't have any category two episodes.
"Daleks in Manhattan" and "Evolution of the Daleks" are the only occupants of category three.
Number 50-26 on my list are in category four, the 'mostly good' category.
The other twenty-five (twenty-six if you include "The Next Doctor", which would likely fit right between "Blink" and "Bad Wolf" and would be the very start of this category) are all category five for me.
That's fifty-one episodes in the 'mostly good' to 'completely good' range, with only five episodes falling underneath those numbers. Yeah, I kinda love this show a lot.
Overall Favorite Episode
"The Christmas Invasion" is the clear winner, with 50% of the vote.
Interestingly, it's had between 40-50% of the vote since near the very beginning and stabilized at around 50% pretty quickly.
"The Runaway Bride" has consistently has around 25% of the vote (or, in other words, half the number of votes as TCI).
"The Unquiet Dead" and "The Next Doctor" have been in a dead heat since almost the beginning and have stayed at a bit over 10% each for most of that time.
This is utterly, utterly fascinating. The shape of the poll has, basically been exactly the same shape since it had around eight votes in it.
Episode with most fives
"The Christmas Invasion" got twenty-six standing ovations, but "The Runaway Bride" was close behind it, with twenty-three.
Episode with fewest ones, twos
"The Unquiet Dead" got four twos and zero ones.
Episode with the most ones
"Voyage of the Damned", by a landslide of fifteen. None of the others come close.
Now, if I set Ones at -2, Twos at -1, Threes at 0, Fours at +1, and Fives at +2, this is what you end up with:
TUD: +42
TCI: +71
TRB: +49
VotD: -34
TND: +50
Which has "The Next Doctor" showing more strongly than TUD. TCI is still the clear favorite.
The Unquiet Dead
One: 0
Two: 4
Three: 20
Four: 34
Five: 6
The Christmas Invasion
One: 3
Two: 3
Three: 4
Four: 28
Five: 26
The Runaway Bride
One: 1
Two: 5
Three: 15
Four: 20
Five: 23
The Voyage of the Damned
One: 15
Two: 19
Three: 16
Four: 13
Five: 1
The Next Doctor
One: 0
Two: 5
Three: 17
Four: 23
Five: 16
Favorite
TUD: 7
TCI: 32
TRB: 16
VotD: 1
TND: 7
What does it all mean? Nothing, really, except that it was kinda fun to do all that.
So, regarding the rating system that I used for this poll, where one = horrible; two = mostly bad; three = good and bad; four = mostly good; and five = excellent, I just thought I would share how much I adore this show by telling you where the lines for all the episodes fall for me.
Back in August, I listed all fifty-five episodes of New Who in order of preference. So, the episodes that would be considered number 'ones' would be the first three -- "Silence in the Library", "Forest of the Dead" and "Girl in the Fireplace".
I don't have any category two episodes.
"Daleks in Manhattan" and "Evolution of the Daleks" are the only occupants of category three.
Number 50-26 on my list are in category four, the 'mostly good' category.
The other twenty-five (twenty-six if you include "The Next Doctor", which would likely fit right between "Blink" and "Bad Wolf" and would be the very start of this category) are all category five for me.
That's fifty-one episodes in the 'mostly good' to 'completely good' range, with only five episodes falling underneath those numbers. Yeah, I kinda love this show a lot.