I love Kerblam, but it is not better than Demons of the Punjab, which is an amazing episode.
Why???
It seems like it…
I think I might actually read some of these reviews to see if they actually have some form of reasoning behind their ratings…
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I was really shocked at that one, especially as they seem to be going by ‘general fan consensus’ (shudder) for their reviews, and Remembrance is well regarded by almost everyone!
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That’s because it is the best… 4, I would have forgiven them because I will accept that the plot does not 100% make sense (but it’s Doctor Who… is it meant to ‘‘make sense’’…). But THREE??? And they called my Allison useless >:( (which again I accept she a little bit is in the episode but I also love her so there)
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Im sorry I shared the link haha
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Same here. Timeless Children getting more than half a star? Crazy!
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Oh whops just seen that Thread 
But personally speaking while there are plenty which i disagree with here cough Toymaker and Gunfighters cough, most of those are honestly fair even if I had rated some Stories higher or lower (like I don’t think The Tenth Planet is better than The Massacre). Love seeing The Smugglers with such a high rating!! (I know this one is something a lot to disagree with, but it tells me at the very least that some Thought went into it, even if a lot of it feels like pandering to the fan consensus (especially with the Whittaker era) or some just being a bit baffingly .
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It’s on the one hand heartening to see An Unearthly Child getting laurels, but I have to wonder if that’s symptomatic of the perceived importance of it being the first serial - the very same goes for The Tenth Planet as the last Hartnell outing. I also wonder if that perception aligns with things like the high rating for The Celestial Toymaker and adversely low rating for The Gunfighters, especially given the popular, persistent eighties/nineties fan consensus that seems to operate off that metric. The two ratings I agree with from this list are those for Marco Polo and The War Machines.
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Also, the point about Steven and Dodo resembling “children’s entertainers” in their Gunfighters costumes seems strangely out-of-touch. With this being a sixties children’s show, you have to wonder what image they have of the audience.
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