General Discussion for Ranking Game

A fun idea for an Elimination Game :slightly_smiling_face:
I am a bit confused about some of these anniversary specials.

How is “Love and War” an anniversary specials?
How is “Rise of the Cybermen/Age of Steel” an anniversary special?

And wouldn’t the returning villains of season 20 (Mara, Black Guardian, Master) be included if season 25 villains were included :slightly_smiling_face:

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I will probably sit this one out. I’m not familiar with most of these.

And I’m also curious as to how Love & War is an anniversary special?

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I mostly was following this page - List of anniversaries - Tardis Wiki

They only really mentioned the Five Doctors from Season 20.

Love and War’s audio adaptation was produced for the 20th anniversary of Bernice Summerfield’s debut in the original novel. I probably should have specified but no comics/books were included.

The Cybermen New Who episodes were apparently made for their 40th anniversary, which was news to me!

I’m sure it’s not perfect but it felt like a lot of stories and villains to include to begin with! We can always add the returning villains from Season 20 though.

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That all makes sense :blush:

I wonder why I hadn’t heard that one about the Cybermen before :person_shrugging:

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Apparently they even acknowledge it in the episode by having Jackie celebrating her 40th birthday. I had no idea and it makes it the first real time the revived series ever did something Anniversary-themed.

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Because no one makes a fuss about a Cyberman episode that happens to have come out 40 years after their debut :joy:

Empress of Mars is probably an anniversary episode as well, because it was broadcast 50 years after the debut of the Ice Warriors…

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Helen A is supposed to be at 8.

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I was really confused about how some of these are ‘anniversary specials’ especially Rise of the Cybermen. But that TARDIS wiki article sort of explains it.

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Finally a game where I got an agenda. The last time was Stained-Glass Dalek!

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I have to say there’s far too many things I’m unfamiliar with to really participate in this particular elimination game, but I hope people enjoy it.

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Some of the anniversary stories on here are pretty accessible. If anyone needs help finding anything feel free to @ me or send me a message!

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This is one where I know the tv stories, but that’s half or less of the list, so I’m not planning on participating…

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I wasn’t going to, and then I saw Helen A was on the list, and needed to upvote her

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I think I managed to accidentally press the quote button in the middle then I panicked and deleted it because I missed my three second edit window :sob:

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Borusa being eliminated is not surprising. I think he could have been a very cool villain but, as much as I enjoyed The Five Doctors, he isn’t much of a presence as an antagonist.

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And he turning into one should be tragic but honestly… I kinda don’t care

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Yeah! He has good set-up, it feels as though he should be a lot more significant than how it comes across.

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As @BillFiler says, I feel like this elimination game is going particularly slowly…

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I think that it involved a lot of characters people had little or no knowledge of popular when they focus on TV stories.

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Yeah, it’s a tricky one.

Of course I don’t really want people what haven’t listened to the audios storming in and voting Nobody No-One down… :wink:

…but perhaps it would be nice to have a audio/books EL running alongside the regular TV ones? Best of both worlds.

(Maybe when enough film have caught up to Zagreus via Audio Club we could do a Main Range first 50…)

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