Which is your favourite series of Doctor Who since the revival?

[Gingerbread Demon]

Which series is your favourite since the 2005 revival of Doctor Who?

For me series 1 and series 9

9 for me seems to be the strongest season and the one I have liked most.

Series 8 did have about 4 good episodes though.

Time Heist
Mummy On The Orient Express
Into The Dalek
Flatline, and honorable mention for Listen

 

[The Wormhole]

Season 3. Especially the last half, with such great episodes like the Human Nature two-parter, Blink, and the Master's finale arc. The season's first few episodes were really great too. Granted the season did slump a bit with the Dalek story, The Lazarus Experiment and 42, but even those episodes aren't bad, just kind of average. And Last of the Time Lords does kind of go off the rails once humanity unites in their faith in the Doctor. But regardless, season 3 was a really awesome year.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

For me, its the first and fourth series, easily. Followed by the fifth and the third.

They're all characterized by the consistency of good storytelling and overall brilliant execution. The story arcs, too, were subtle but relevant, and they added up logically at the end nicely (whereas series 9's story arc was both nonexistent and nonsensical, to begin with). It also has Eclesston's brilliant sole turn as Nine and Tennant having perfected the part to such a point, where watching him is just sheer pleasure in itself. Luckily, that feeling lasts in 4B/Specials year, but the stories serve him much better in 4.

It also helps that these four series have also the companions at their best game. Especially Donna, who's quite simply the funniest companion the Doctor's ever had, full stop.

 

[The Wormhole]

whereas series 9's story arc was both nonexistent and nonsensical, to begin with

The problems with season 9's story arc:
-It was depressing. I'm okay with the show getting a darker edge, but I do not want to be reminded of my own mortality each week when I tune into Doctor Who. Even The Walking Dead is more uplifting than the typical season 9 episode was.
-There was no subtlety. Every season 9 episode might as well have had a giant neon sign visible in every scene with "PEOPLE DIE CLARA WILL DIE" written on it.

 

[kirk55555]

I'd say Series 5 is my favorite overall , with Series 4 and Series 1 close behind. Series 5 had the best Doctor introduction (and best first episode for a Doctor) in the revival, and the whole series was just great from a quality standpoint. The overall story that went through the series was cool and kept me wondering. It had two episodes I didn't like (Vampires of Venice and Amy's Choice), but that's not too bad and the other episodes are more than good enough to make up for two weak ones.

Series 4 was the best 10th Doctor series in my opinion. I liked Rose as a companion, but there were two many weak or just plain bad episodes in Series 2. Series 3 was better, but Martha is the most boring Doctor who companion I've ever seen, in Nu or old Who (not the worst, that would be Clara, but definitely the most boring). Series 4 had a great companion, some great episodes, and my favorite Series finale in NuWho.

Series 1 was pretty important, was the only series with the 9th Doctor who was pretty great, and had some awesome episodes.

Honestly, the only NuWho Series I'd say I disliked was Series 8, where the bad episodes so outweighed the good it made most of the series painful. Series 7B was also pretty mediocre, but 7A makes up for it.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

I overally like the RTD years and the first and a half of Moffat's. Everything else is basically very weak, with the occasional bright spots (like, you know, Day of the Doctor and stuff like that).

The problems with season 9's story arc:
-It was depressing. I'm okay with the show getting a darker edge, but I do not want to be reminded of my own mortality each week when I tune into Doctor Who. Even The Walking Dead is more uplifting than the typical season 9 episode was.

I was fine with the tone, as long as the series had an endgame. In other words, I could excuse the edgier feel if there was a reason to it. But there was none. I mean, I still don't understand what the Hybrid is, or what the danger that it entails was. All I know is that the Doctor loved Clara so much that he basically broke the rules of time and space with her.

-There was no subtlety. Every season 9 episode might as well have had a giant neon sign visible in every scene with "PEOPLE DIE CLARA WILL DIE" written on it.

Absolutely. I don't understand what happened, as even stuff from latter Moffat Who has had subtle touches here and there. Its the most obvious sign that he basically cares ziltch, on a producer and on a writing level.

Seriously, the more I think about it, the more I dislike 8 and 9. Sure, 9 had some decent two-parters, but they're too threaded into the arc for me to be enjoyable.

So, in short, 6, 7, 8 and 9, with special emphasis on the latter two.

 

[redball]

Long time Lurker, first time poster. For me, S5 is my favorite. 11 was my "first" Doctor and, as with love, nothing will ever come quite up to par as your first. 9 has some great eps in S1 and 10 does a great job, particularly in S4. Of the most recent, I've enjoyed 12 in S9 (especially his one man show in Heaven Sent). However, series 5 was my first experience with the magic that is Who, and nothing can top that!

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Series 4 remains my favorite season. It has the most consistent writing, featuries some of my favorite episodes ("Midnight," "Turn Left," "The Fires of Pompeii," "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead") and only one weak episode ("The Doctor's Daughter"), as well as featuring my favorite finale and my favorite New Series companion.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Oh wow yeah for me series 4 and 5 were my second and third favourite season. Season 1 was good too and Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor was just bloody brilliant..

Donna was and is my all time favourite companion. I yelled and screamed at the TV when she finally left at the end of that series. I was absolutely angry at how she left the series. I felt they had destroyed her as a person considering how she had grown over the series. I really could not forgive the writers.

For me series 9 was good. I liked it. However now have the writers written themselves into a a hole with Doctor Clara and Ashildr travelling through time and space in a diner? I mean TARDIS of their own? Is Clara now immortal till she decides to die?

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

Series 6. The River/Silence arc kept me glued. That, and I just really enjoyed the episodes.

 

[The Wormhole]

11 was my "first" Doctor and, as with love, nothing will ever come quite up to par as your first.

I often hear the term "no one compares to your first Doctor" but really, it becomes less relevant to me as the years go by. Eccleston was my first, and at first I was resistant to Tennant taking over (despite knowing the role always changes actors). But then by the end of Tennant's first year, I considered him to be "my Doctor" and continued to do so for the longest time. But these days, I've really taken a shine to Pertwee, and might even find myself enjoying him more than Tennant. So really, being my first Doctor doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of things.

 

[STEPhon IT]

Series 5 is my favorite and it's Matt Smith who made me a regular viewer of Doctor Who. Still sad to see him go. The other Doctor I liked was Eccleston, but his series was rough around the edges--a work in progress--but nice. He's the Doctor I was really hoping would return for the 50th anniversary; a shame Moffat couldn't make arrangement so he would return.

Now, I thought series 4 with Donna Noble/Catherine Tate was a hoot, and I could see where series 5's tone was inspired. That series was just crazy fun and sadly had to end. I'm hoping one day Matt Smith and Christopher Eccleston will return for some sort of adventure special; they were my kind of Time travelling Doctors.

 

[TommyR01D]

For me the quality works rather like Red Dwarf:

The first two series are good but a bit weird in retrospect. The third, fourth and fifth are the strongest and then it falls apart in the sixth and seventh. The eighth makes big changes to turn things around but it still doesn't return to its former quality.

 

[The Wormhole]

^^Unfortunately, that comparison falls apart when you consider that Red Dwarf's ninth series was its best.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I'm still iffy on the whole Clara / Ashildr thing.
I keep thinking as I said that maybe the writers are in a hole with that one.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

How so? All of time and space is huge. The odds of The Doctor running into them again is slim, except when the story requires it. No big deal. *shrug*

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

Definitely season 5! But Capaldi is still my favorite Doctor.

 

[Csalem]

Season 4 is my favourite. Tennant and Tate were a great match for each other and I thought Donna's maturity made the stories stronger. There was no wide-eyed teenage girl lusting after the Doctor but rather someone who could stand up to him and offer a proper point of view. And the finale was perfect.

Seasons 1 or 7 would come after 4 for me.

 

[EnderAKH]

I know it is an unpopular opinion, but Season 3 for me. It had a run of 4 not great episodes (Daleks in Manhattan - 42), and 9 good to great episodes. It also contains 4 episodes that are in my favorite list for the entire new series run in Blink, Human Nature/Family of Blood, and Utopia.

 

[kirk55555]

I often hear the term "no one compares to your first Doctor" but really, it becomes less relevant to me as the years go by. Eccleston was my first, and at first I was resistant to Tennant taking over (despite knowing the role always changes actors). But then by the end of Tennant's first year, I considered him to be "my Doctor" and continued to do so for the longest time. But these days, I've really taken a shine to Pertwee, and might even find myself enjoying him more than Tennant. So really, being my first Doctor doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of things.

Yeah, I agree about the "first Doctor being your favorite" idea not being relevant, at least to me. My first Doctor was Eccleston. He's a great Doctor, but I'd say Matt Smith is my favorite NuWho Doctor, and after getting into Classic Who Colin Baker quickly became my favorite Doctor overall.