The Top 10 Doctor Who Episodes

What's happening folks?! So here we are at another top ten list, this one for my top ten episodes of my favorite show currently on tv: Doctor Who. The hit british sci fi series revolves around The Doctor, a human-looking alien who travels through time and space in a police box that's bigger on the inside than the outside. It's freaking awesome. The show was on the BBC from 1963-1989, got cancelled, and then, in 2005, got revived and is amazing. It's in it's sixth season since it's revival, with 114 episodes. Now, i know there's nothing Who-related going on right now, but i was bored and i couldn't think of another top ten list idea. A few rules: i'm only doing episodes from the revived series, mainly because i've never actually seen the classic series, and two-part episodes will be regarded as one episode. Heads up, this contains spoilers. Let's get started.

10. School Reunion
Season 2

New who meets old who in this instant classic. The doctor, rose, and mickey are looking into strange events at a high school, and they run into one of the doctor's old companions while doing so: Miss Sarah Jane Smith, one of the most iconic companions from the classic series. She even has K-9 with her. We finally get some closure regarding Sarah Jane's story, which many fans previously felt had a blah sort of ending. Also in the mix are the monsters lurking at the high school, the Krylitane, who are big bat things disguised as teachers, eating ones who get bad grades. There leader is played by Anthony Stewart Head (Oh my God it's Giles!) and they have a plan. just beautiful, it was.

9. The Stolen Earth/ The Journey's End
Season 4
This season finale was about as hollywood blockbuster as Who will probably ever get. As Davros, the creator of the Daleks, re-emerges, he pulls Earth and 25 other planets out of time and space to use in there plan to destroy the universe. At the same time, all of the doctor's former companions from the last 4 seasons (that is Rose, Mickey, Jackie, Martha, Jack, and Sarah Jane) team up to help the doctor stop davros, crossing over with the show's two major spinoffs , Torchwood and SJA in the process. The Doctor and Donna find them all there, and from there they deal with the ultimate Dalek invasion. One of the most epic episodes the show has ever produced, it was, as expected, action packed, entertaining, and funny, plus we got great closure for most of the recurring cast, and the saddest companion departure ever  when Donna's memory was wiped, and a tearjerking speech from Wilf as the Doctor marches off into the rain after losing Donna. If you didn't feel something when that happened, you have no soul.

8. The Time of Angels/ Flesh and Stone
Season 5
Matt Smith's debut season as the Doctor was impressive, and this episode confirmed that. The Doctor and Amy run into River Song, who brings them to a planet to help a group of priest recover a Weeping Angel from space ship trapped in a cave. The twist: the cave is filled with statues, and the statues are all weeping angles. I found that out and was just like "oh (expletive removed)" Some will bag on this episodes for making the angels do things they didn't do in Blink, but frankly, Steven Moffat created the weeping angels, he can make them do whatever the hell he wants. Any weeping angles story is good, especially one that was this exciting and a little bit eerie. Plus, River Song, and she's always a fun time.

7. The Pandorica Opens/ The Big Bang
Season 5
Season 5's finale was one of the most majestic, reaching the climax of the absolutely brilliant concept used throughout the season. The concept was that, after the TARDIS explodes sometime in the future, cracks were created in the skin of the universe, and anything that goes into a crack will have never existed. The crack's are getting bigger, and all of the Doctor's former enemies team up to trap him in hopes the cracks will never be created. That obviously doesn't work, so the cracks are getting bigger and literally wiping the entire universe from existence. Phenomenal performances from everyone, especially the Doctor, obviously, and River being River, plus Rory as a plastic Roman Centurion, and Amy bringing the Doctor back from non-existence. Excellent end to and excellent arc.

6. The Army of Ghosts/ Doomsday
Season 2
You've probably figured out by now i've got a bit of a thing for season finales. So, The Doctor and Rose arrive on Eartha, only to find that ghosts are everywhere. They're investigation of it leads them to Torchwood, the government agency that investigates alien phenomena that the doctor and rose had been running into over the course of the season. Eventually, they find out the ghosts are cybermen from the alternate universe, who then proceed to invade, while, naturally, a dalek invasion is also taking place. Yeah, that's right: Daleks vs Cybermen. With a little help with from the alternate universe Pete and company, the doctor traps the daleks and cybermen in the the void, but Rose ends up getting trapped in the alternate universe in the process, leading to one of the most heartbreaking scenes the show has ever seen.

5. The Doctor's Wife
Season 6
So, here we have famed author Neil Gaiman writing episode of Doctor Who; this can only lead to much fun. The Doctor, Amy, and Rory get a distress call from another Time Lord, leading the Doctor to believe there's still time lords out there. This leads them to a bizarre planet outside of the universe (never really explained how that one works) where they find the TARDIS's consciousness has been put in a human body, and an energy being called House has taken control of the TARDIS. Fun ensues. And there's and Ood! One of the most inventive episodes, with a great performance by the woman who played the TARDIS, and we finally see what it would be like if those bigger-on-the-inside-walls could talk.

4. The Waters of Mars
Specials Season
 Now, the number above this says four, but at this is actually tied for first. Ordering this was a pain in neck. Probably the darkest and most intense story the show has ever told, we find the Doctor, traveling alone, arrive on Mars, circa 2059. He runs into a base with where the first humans to colonize mars are living. The catch: the Doctor knows what happens on that day in that place, that everyone on the base will die. And it's a fixed point, so the Doctor can't interfere. Throughout the episode, you can tell it's killing him that he can't save these people, even though he knows it will actually help advance humanity. What's killing everyone? A parasite that lives in water and turns people into deformed slaves to do there bidding. There called the flood, and they're one of the show's scariest monsters. At the end, he goes a little bit nuts and tries and fails to break the rules, leading to one of the most controversial endings the show has ever had.

3. Blink
Season 3
You all knew this would be here. One of the most brilliant hours of television ever produced introduces the Weeping Angels, stone statues that can only move when you're not looking. The real twist in this episode: the doctor's barely in it. He and Martha are stuck in 1969, and he's using the help of a girl named Sally Sparrow (Carrey Muligan) to get the TARDIS back to him before the angels get it, there intention being to feed of it's energy, which would be very bad. Brilliantly written, brilliantly executed, just plain brilliant.

2. The Impossible Astronaut/ Day of Moon
Season 6
I may or may not get a lot of crap for putting this here. Season 6 was fairly polarizing for fans; there were those who embraced the heavy serialization and those who couldn't accept the idea, mainly because they just don't like either Smith or Moffat, or both (a group i refer to as imbeciles) I'm a fan of serialized TV, so i was pretty happy about this episode. So, season 6 premier, Amy, Rory, and River are called to Utah by the Doctor, only to watch him apparently killed by an astronaut who rose from a lake. While grieving, they find that the doctor invited a past version of himself, and, based on some information the future doctor gave them, they go to Washington DC, 1969, where they meet Richard Nixon, as well as deal with a conspiracy surrounding the moon landing involving a group of aliens called the Silence. When you see the silence, you remember them, but when you look away, you lose all memory of them, even that you saw them in the first place. Plus, if they tell you do something while you see them, when you forget them, you have to do it, sort of like post hypnotic suggestion. And they can control electricity. This serves both as an amazing stand alone story and as a great way of setting up the complex story arc of the season. A masterpiece.

1. The Empty Child/ The Doctor Dances
Season 1
While Christopher Eccleston's time as the Doctor was brief, this amazing two-parter was one of the major reasons we loved him anyway. Steven Moffat's first episode, The Doctor and Rose track a spaceship to London, 1941, the height of the Blitz. They meet Captain Jack Harkness (fist shakes, BARROWMAN!) and find that a child wearing a gas mask is actually a sort of zombie, turning other people into gas mask zombies upon touch, which they find out is the result of microscopic robots altering human DNA.. And it may have been Jack's fault. A very impressive debut for both Moffat and Jack, who would later go on to star in his own spinoff, Torchwood. The gas mask zombies were both compelling and a little bit frightening, and the story makes you keep wanting more. For the first time, everybody lived. Best episode ever.

So, that's it from the list. But wait, it's time for honorable mentions:
The Unquiet Dead
A Good Man Goes to War
Amy's Choice
The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit
Utopia
Tooth and Claw
The Doctor's Daughter
The Aliens of London/ World War Three
The Christmas Invasion
A Christmas Carol