Everyone's doing sterling work over on Monday's meme: the voice of the people is pretty clear and it appears to be saying, “Steven Moffat is top!” The only debate appears to be over which of his episodes are topper than the others.
Toby, meanwhile, has started up a counter-meme in response. He wants to know which three of nu-Who's guest stars have been the best. I'm guessing people like Lis Sladen and Catherine Tate don't count once they've become regular cast members on the main show or its spin-offs (Tobes: help me out here!). Ditto the Torchwood crowd.
Anyway, mine are:
- Bernard Cribbins (for just being brilliant),
- Julian Bleach (for being creepy enough to be Davros and doing a brilliant impression of the previous Davroses) and
- John Simm (I'm not saying it was a subtle performance, only that it was the equal of David Tennant's, which is what you need from The Master).
As always, leave your own list on your own blog and a link on Tobe's blog or just post straight to Tobe's comments. And you can leave a link to yours here, too, if you want.
PS Toby suggests MINErs as a collective name for anyone who comments here regularly. Is this apt and should it be officially adopted? Do any of the assembled Welsh here feel upset at the suggestion they're miners (cf that Pot Noodle ad)?
July 18, 2008 | Reply
Well, as Rob said, I started up the new meme over at Inner Toob and I hope you post over there. But I'm still going to share my choices here, with the reasoning over there:
1) Sir Derek Jacobi, 'Utopia'
2) Simon Callow, 'The Unquiet Dead'
3) Zoe Wanamaker, 'The End Of The World'
July 19, 2008 | Reply
Typing from my mother's 1998 laptop in Victoria, BC before going into "computer silence" until Wednesday, so must be brief and off the top of my head:
1. Jessica Hyndes (Stephenson) in Human Nature/Family of Blood
2. Lesley Sharpe in Midnight
3. Tie between Ann Reid in Smith and Jones and Alex Kingston in The Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead and Sir Derek Jacobi in Utopia.
If that's cheating, so be it...
July 21, 2008 | Reply
That probably is cheating but you'd have to check with Toby to be sure!
July 21, 2008 | Reply
1. Derek Jacobi
2. Jessica Hynes
3. John Simm
But really 1. Derek Jacobi, 2. Derek Jacobi, 3. Derek Jacobi...
July 21, 2008 | Reply
I wouldn't call it cheating. Greedy, yes. LOL
July 22, 2008 | Reply
...right up to the point he remembers he's the Master. Then, oh dear.
July 22, 2008 | Reply
This is an easy one - in first place comes the magisterial Bernard Cribbins then there's a massive, terrifying gorge of a gap before Callow and Jacobi arrive, bickering interminably like the two great old thesps that they are.
July 23, 2008 | Reply
Didn't dare start another Dr Who meme on my blog in case I put off those of my readers who inexplicably don't understand Dr Who(yes, apparently they exist), though I appear to have made one convert...
Anyway, my choices have got to be...
yes, Bernard Cribbins is THE guest star of Nu Who (although, if a character has a longrunning part in the series does it count?),
Derek Jacobi who was fanastic both as Yana and when he became the Master and
John Simm, just because...
July 27, 2008 | Reply
If Bernard Cribbins counts then hell yeah he gets the nod. Three times over for being great.
Otherwise, Derek Jacobi, Lesley Sharpe, Jessica Hynes.