Reflections of adulthood

Doctor Who, revisited.

I'm watching every episode of Doctor Who again from 2005 onwards, simply because I have the time and the DVD boxsets to do so. Some episodes I've seen dozens of times (I hate to think how many times I've watched Rose over the last eight years), some I haven't seen since original transmission (The heartbreaking Girl in the Fireplace plays so much better to eighteen-year-old me than it did when I was eleven). As such, I'll address each episode with a sort-of rating. A bad/average/good/outstanding system. I'll try and reserve outstanding for only the episodes that I really feel are the pinnacle of the series, so probably less than ten over the hundred-odd episodes I'll be re-watching. Average for Doctor Who is still good. I'm not trying to demean the episode in any way. Average is good but not as good as good, which, in turn, means better than almost everything else on TV, just not this series at the peak of its powers. Sometimes 'bad' isn't that bad, but it's still below average. Is all that clear? Good, then we'll begin. I'll update it when I've watched further than that point-

Bad - Average - Good - Outstanding

Series One
Rose
End of the World
The Unquiet Dead
Aliens of London
World War Three
Dalek
The Long Game
The Empty Child
The Doctor Dances
Boom Town
Bad Wolf
The Parting of the Ways

The Children in Need Scene
The Christmas Invasion

Series Two
New Earth
Tooth and Claw
School Reunion
The Girl in the Fireplace
The Rise of the Cybermen
The Age of Steel
The Idiots Lantern
The Impossible Planet
The Satan Pit
Love and Monsters
Fear Her
Army of Ghosts
Doomsday 

The Runaway Bride

Series Three
Smith and Jones
The Shakespeare Code
Gridlock
Daleks in Manhatten
Evolution of the Daleks
The Lazarus Experiment
42 
Human Nature
The Family of Blood
Blink
Utopia
The Sound of Drums
The Last of the Time Lords 

Voyage of the Damned

Series Four
Partners in Crime
The Fires of Pompeii
Planet of the Ood
The Sontaran Stratogen
The Poison Sky
The Doctor's Daughter
The Unicorn and the Wasp
Silence in the Library
Forest of the Dead
Midnight
The Stolen Earth
Journey's End 

The Next Doctor
Planet of the Dead
Waters of Mars
The End of Time Part One
The End of Time Part Two

Series Five
The Eleventh Hour 
The Beast Below
Victory of the Daleks
The Time of Angels
Flesh and Stone
Vampires in Venice
Amy's Choice
The Hungry Earth
Cold Blood
Vincent and the Doctor