More Top 5 answers
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thisbluespiritIn other news, I just went for my walk round the block and was rather touched to see that in one of the streets in particular, people had been colouring pictures of rainbows and putting them on the windows with encouraging messages. ♥
el_staplador asked top five planets in Doctor Who
(Well, actually, they asked for top 5 fruits, but mainly anything to do with food is Complicated, but #1 is bananas in case anyone else was filled with the same burning fruit curiosity).
And I was trying to think about this, because New Who must have some good planets, but I think they mostly just have occasional pretty because they rarely have time for planetary world-building, so the only one I can really think of right now is the Rings of Akhaten where you got a feel for a culture and it was interesting. I'm sure there are others! My brain is like a sieve.)
1. Kaldor (we never even see it but it and its dangerously robot-dependent culture, decadence, art deco creepy robots, and snarky politicking is totally real and my fave. Bonus points because of Kaldor City)
2. Varos (again, we get a sense of its history as a prison colony, where it came from, and Etta and Arak's 'chorus' like function adds more. Not that I'd like to live there. I wouldn't want to live on Kaldor, but it'd be way better than Varos. Provided the robots weren't trying to kill you or Uvanov wasn't after your job or something).
3. Gallifrey (it's a stuffy old place, but pretty in New Who and we see a lot of it and who does not love the many Accessories of Rassilon? "I didn't know he was musical...")
4. The Rings of Akhaten
5. Inferno!Earth
(I am probably forgetting things here, but in my defence most DW classic planets are just a quarry again. The Doctor's always, like, "I'll take you to an amazing holiday planet!" and then you wind up in a quarry/Antarctica/Wales or you make it to the amazing holiday planet only to find it's being invaded. etc.)
lirazel asked for Top 5 Press Gang characters and while I'm sure Lynda would be totally okay with them all being Lynda, I shall not do that:
1. Lynda Day (I expect there probably is someone out there who might have a fave PG character who isn't Lynda Day, but not necessarily more than one and it certainly isn't me)
2. Kenny Phillips (so nice teddy bears sneer at him)
3. Colin Mathews (is Colin)
4. Spike Thomson (Lynda would be cross if we left him off)
5. Sam Black (I'm very sorry they couldn't get Gabrielle Anwar back for S3-5, even if Julie is also v good)
swordznsorcery asked B7 episodes:
1. Blake (I'm sorry, but yes!)
2. Star One
3. The Way Back
4. Rumours of Death
5. Orbit (Probably? At this point it gets tough)
el_staplador asked top five planets in Doctor Who(Well, actually, they asked for top 5 fruits, but mainly anything to do with food is Complicated, but #1 is bananas in case anyone else was filled with the same burning fruit curiosity).
And I was trying to think about this, because New Who must have some good planets, but I think they mostly just have occasional pretty because they rarely have time for planetary world-building, so the only one I can really think of right now is the Rings of Akhaten where you got a feel for a culture and it was interesting. I'm sure there are others! My brain is like a sieve.)
1. Kaldor (we never even see it but it and its dangerously robot-dependent culture, decadence, art deco creepy robots, and snarky politicking is totally real and my fave. Bonus points because of Kaldor City)
2. Varos (again, we get a sense of its history as a prison colony, where it came from, and Etta and Arak's 'chorus' like function adds more. Not that I'd like to live there. I wouldn't want to live on Kaldor, but it'd be way better than Varos. Provided the robots weren't trying to kill you or Uvanov wasn't after your job or something).
3. Gallifrey (it's a stuffy old place, but pretty in New Who and we see a lot of it and who does not love the many Accessories of Rassilon? "I didn't know he was musical...")
4. The Rings of Akhaten
5. Inferno!Earth
(I am probably forgetting things here, but in my defence most DW classic planets are just a quarry again. The Doctor's always, like, "I'll take you to an amazing holiday planet!" and then you wind up in a quarry/Antarctica/Wales or you make it to the amazing holiday planet only to find it's being invaded. etc.)
lirazel asked for Top 5 Press Gang characters and while I'm sure Lynda would be totally okay with them all being Lynda, I shall not do that:1. Lynda Day (I expect there probably is someone out there who might have a fave PG character who isn't Lynda Day, but not necessarily more than one and it certainly isn't me)
2. Kenny Phillips (so nice teddy bears sneer at him)
3. Colin Mathews (is Colin)
4. Spike Thomson (Lynda would be cross if we left him off)
5. Sam Black (I'm very sorry they couldn't get Gabrielle Anwar back for S3-5, even if Julie is also v good)
swordznsorcery asked B7 episodes:1. Blake (I'm sorry, but yes!)
2. Star One
3. The Way Back
4. Rumours of Death
5. Orbit (Probably? At this point it gets tough)