I loved The Giggle! Loved all of the 60th specials.
I didn’t hate the others like so many people seem to, but The Giggle was the one with the most satisfying ending for me.
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Out of 1169 completed, I’ve only rated 7 Doctor Who stories 0.5 stars. All three of these options are amongst them – on par with the likes of Mission: Find Lilith and the game Lost in Time[1]. So needless to say this was a difficult poll. The Reality War is easily the worst amongst them. The visceral rage I felt about the bigeneration in The Giggle probably puts Empire of Death as my – let’s go with very slightly least despised rather than favourite.
which is hardly a story, really, just an app trying to get you to make purchases ↩︎
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See, I find this hard to credit. Mission: Find Lilith is amateurish in every sense of production; Lost in Time is a money-grabbing cynicism at its worst. For all their ills to put two actual episodes of the TV show in the same bracket as them, seems to be, rather nonsensical.
That said, I’ve rated episodes of K9 as 3 stars like I have The Reality War and the quality of those is quite obviously lower again in all aspects so I suppose I’m just as guilty of it and it is, I guess, about relative values (as in it’s 0.5 or 3 stars compared to stories within the same ‘part’ of the show).
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This is the problem with quantifying something that’s purely subjective!
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I rate purely based on my personal enjoyment while completing a story, not its objective quality.
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I mean a 3* K9 episode is totally different to a 1* DW episode (and probably about equal in objective quality) - such is the issue with rating systems, I guess
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The Giggle because its perfect until the bigeneration. The others… abysmal 
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I wish 14 just regenerated into 15. I mean I’m happy for 14 and Donna but still 
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I wish Thirteen had just regenerated into Fifteen
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I am so happy that she didn’t. I love the three specials and 14 and Donna!!!
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As for the three episodes, I voted the giggle because i had a lot of fun with the toymaker, although I hated the bigeneration
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I thought bigeneration was fun. But I love Multi-Doctor stuff and don’t care that much about lore.
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Yeah, I don’t have an issue with bigeneration at all. I didn’t like RTD’s silly ‘it’s rippled back through his entire timeline’ soundbite in the commentary but that was just him riffing. And I sort of liked the idea that it’s come about because of Gallifrey being sterile. It means its something that doesn’t need to be permanent because that’s just the Doctor and Rani theorising. They could easily be wrong (because actually, if the previous incarnation now can’t regenerate, how exactly does that help repopulate Gallifrey?)
And at a base level, I’ve always liked the visual of Tennant and Gatwa splitting off from each other:
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Bigeneration looked cool, fun as a one off. Apart from the fact it seemed like an obvious way of keeping Tennant around. & for some bizarre reason giving him a happy ending as if he is somehow a seperate entity to the rest of the Doctors, past & future. No you’re the same Time Lord. Don’t you get it RTD? 
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I saw it more as a way to give Ncuti more of an introduction in the 60th instead of the usual short first phrase after regenerating.
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Yeah this bit was a bit weird but, as it was, it was one of those things that will just get absorbed into the tapestry of the show like the Watcher or being half-human or the Valeyard. Just because something happens once in the show doesn’t mean it ever has to reappear. And, okay it’s come back a second time but, again, if another showrunner takes over and they never ever refer back to it, it won’t matter. Apart from the central tenets, whenever has Doctor Who ever revered what came before?
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Had a genuine belly laugh when I saw just how grouped the votes were on this.
The Giggle might be my favourite RTD script that isn’t confronting or astoundingly depressing, and it’s what gave me the most hope that RTD2 would turn out well overall.
Honestly, aside from how Reality War turned out… kind of accurate, at least for me?
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Maybe, but if they wanted to do that 14 would have just disappeared rather than have a lengthy epilogue sat in a garden in Chiswick & cleary carrying on.
I don’t trust RTD not to bring him back, especially now we have Billie 
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Well time will tell, but I’m not going to worry about a ‘maybe’.
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And if Moffat wanted Clara to die, he would not have made her travel with me in another TARDIS. I don’t know if it does have to mean that much more than it was a nice way to end the story 
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