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Title: Best Introductory Story
Post by: Aneurin on August 28, 2012, 10:18:27 pm
Which Doctors introduction story is the best?


Title: Re: Best Introductory Story
Post by: Aneurin on August 28, 2012, 10:20:57 pm
I've gone with Rose. I don't think it is the best story of the bunch but I do think it does the best job of introducing the Doctor.


Title: Re: Best Introductory Story
Post by: Joshua on August 28, 2012, 11:10:29 pm
I've only seen NuWho so I can only choose between 3, but The Eleventh Hour is just awesome - one of my favourite episodes!


Title: Re: Best Introductory Story
Post by: hannahcole93 on August 29, 2012, 11:51:36 am
Of the ones I've seen I'm going with Rose. I loved the way that the 9th Doctor was introduced, very well done.


Title: Re: Best Introductory Story
Post by: Scott on September 01, 2012, 01:25:02 am
Spearhead for me. I love it. It completely reboots the show, brings in amazing new character, villains and a new Doctor, introduces stories in colour and is the first in a run of amazing stories. Total winner


Title: Re: Best Introductory Story
Post by: Peri-Peri on September 05, 2012, 04:37:47 pm
I went with Castrovalva. It's not the best but I love it and it's Five, who I love, so that's why it got my vote. Perhaps not the fairest way to do it though ;D


Title: Re: Best Introductory Story
Post by: Saber on September 07, 2012, 11:54:14 pm
I've gone with Spearhead from Space. It completely revamped the show and was just a great story.


Title: Re: Best Introductory Story
Post by: Twisted-Sister on September 10, 2012, 02:36:40 pm
I've gone with Spearhead from Space. It completely revamped the show and was just a great story.

Agreed


Title: Re: Best Introductory Story
Post by: TheDoctorDonna on January 12, 2013, 11:45:41 am
Definitely The Eleventh Hour


Title: Re: Best Introductory Story
Post by: Vampyros Adric on February 19, 2013, 02:50:48 pm
It has to be An Unearthly Child - difficult to overstate the importance of this particular 25 minutes of TV to the whole cultural DNA of Science Fiction. Yes, the other 3 episodes are not the most thrilling, but that very first introduction, with Ian and Barbara following Susan back to Totters Lane and entering the TARDIS for the first time - that is something special. 


Title: Re: Best Introductory Story
Post by: ardalyon on February 19, 2013, 08:45:29 pm
The Eleventh Hour here too.


Title: Re: Best Introductory Story
Post by: CollieMonster on February 21, 2013, 08:40:13 am
I voted Eleventh Hour, but barely - best of the New Who intros (though Rose served its purpose in getting me hooked!), and only winning over Spearhead by a hair. I really, REALLY liked Spearhead. I haven't seen all the others yet. I did like Robot well enough, but it wasn't anything spectacular. Time and the Rani I saw out of sequence, so I'll reserve judgement until I come back around to it. Unearthly Child was good and obviously set the stage for EVERYTHING, but I don't think it really compares to later introduction stories. It can't be.

The movie...we won't go there. The acting was fine, I loved Paul McGann in it. But as a whole, just, no.

The next one I'll be seeing is Castrovalva. I'm starting Tom Baker's last season in just a few minutes :(


Title: Re: Best Introductory Story
Post by: ardalyon on February 23, 2013, 10:37:59 am
I wasn't altogether keen on Spearhead from Space. Revamping the Doctor as a kind of Dick Barton Special Agent didn't work for me, though I did really like the second half.


Title: Re: Best Introductory Story
Post by: chrissymarieb on February 25, 2013, 02:31:35 pm
I went with The Eleventh Hour mainly because it was my first exposure to Who and it caused me to go back and re-watch the series starting from 2009 and began my 'obsession'.  (I have seen some of the classic series at this point too!)  And besides all that, it's a fantastic episode :)


Title: Re: Best Introductory Story
Post by: Miss Hartigan on March 17, 2013, 09:48:33 pm
I chose the eleventh hour...
One reason, and only onr...
Fish fingers and custard mate!!!


Title: Re: Best Introductory Story
Post by: CollieMonster on March 18, 2013, 06:17:25 am
I really want to change my vote to Castrovalva. I absolutely LOVED every minute of it. I thought I'd be in a funk with the end of 4, but 5 doesn't let that happen, not for one minute.


Title: Re: Best Introductory Story
Post by: Tardis-Console on August 20, 2013, 11:00:25 am
There are a lot of good ones to choose from, but The Eleventh Hour got my vote. It was awesome and the first one I watched, so it had to win my vote.