I is big nerd

[jedi_of_urth]

So, for some reason I decided I wanted to rank all of the Doctor Who episodes and determine not only my favorite but the entire order I like them in. This is kind of nerdy enough.

But do I just sit down and figure it out? no I make a spread sheet so I can rank whether I like each episode more or less than every other episode.

I am NEVER doing this with a show with more episodes than this. Sorry B5, I love you but you're twice as long (although I don't know for sure, but *maybe* a little easier ranked). This is taking forever and I haven't even error checked it to make sure I haven't said at one point that I prefer 'Rose' to 'Dalek' and at another point say the opposite, I have to finish it first before I can check that.

So even though I'm still working on the last 2% or so, feel free to throw binary decisions regarding episodes at me, any two episodes and I can probably tell you my preference.


Edited because 2% is much lower than 10% so I was under-representing my progress.

Comments

[shaela]

But do I just sit down and figure it out? no I make a spreadsheet so I can rank whether I like each episode more or less than every other episode.

Why a spreadsheet? Are you assigning separate scores for plot, setting, and so forth?

(That doesn’t sound like such a bad idea, actually. When I tried to do something similar a while back, I was just assigning a single score to each episode, and I got hung up on whether I should use a scale from 1 to 10, or from -5 to 5.)

[jedi_of_urth]

Why a spreadsheet? Are you assigning separate scores for plot, setting, and so forth?

a) Because I like charts, I like to put things in chart form and do funky things with Excel, for fun.

b) No because that would have been more logical. I'm just asking myself for every individual episode "Do I like this more than [each other episode]" with no direct influence by how I have previously ranked it in connection to other episodes/other episodes to each other. I think in one row I say I like The Long Game better than New Earth and then say the opposite when it comes to ranking NE vs TLG. Error checking, and straightening the list out, is going to take forever once I even get there (because things like PotW vs Turn Left is giving me heartache).

Next time, scoring before charts (well scoring will need charts too I'm sure)