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Not necessarily episodes that everyone hates but you love. More like episodes that no one pays attention to but you think are really interesting and cool.

/can also be applied to installments of other serial works, like comic books or short stories, etc.

There's an arc of Detective Comics called "City of Crime." I think I may be the only person who actually talks about how fucking great that arc is.

I really liked the Doctor Who episode "Boom Town." I thought the dilemma was really interesting and the quiet atmosphere & setting of having them all hanging around town at night waiting to refuel was gorgeous. And the domestic-y flirty Nine/Rose/Jack interaction was so beautiful. I love that episode.

Everyone says it's either crap or really boring and pointless. This makes me a sad panda every time I see the sentiment mentioned, even though I kind of understand where they're coming from.

I'm with you. There are so many great moments in that ep!

I agree with this whole comment.

I think I liked it better the second time around. It does seem dry the first time, and the pig stuff... didn't win me over. But the second time I kind of enjoyed it. I agree with you, the dilemma was interesting.

...pig stuff? Er, sorry if I'm being an idiot and not remembering something really obvious, but...what pig stuff? Are you mixing it up with Daleks in Manhattan?

NAYRT

Your mentioning of DiM made me grin a bit because I actually liked it. Bonus: I got to see Andrew Garfield in a worthwhile performance prior to him flushing his career down the toilet with the Spider Man cheese fests.

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It is a good episode and it was one that convinced me an OT3 could work.

For me the episode of Doctor Who I wish was more popular is "Gridlock." I think it's a better episode than people give it credit for, and when David Tennant gives that speech at the end, with Ten talking about and describing Gallifrey, it's really a beautiful moment.

That's one of my top favorites too! I love every bit of it. Fun and insane and colorful and beautiful and heartbreaking all in one episode.

I like that ep too.

The Swamp from ATLA is so well-directed, has great humor and character writing, and has one of the best fights in the show and no one cares about it.

Though it does have the "redneck" swamp guys which is... iffy to say the least, but I don't think it kills the episode.

Oh yeah, I really liked The Swamp too! That really was a good episode, now that I think about it. Kind of odd it get passed unnoticed.

I think the Star Trek TNG episode "The Wounded" is one of the very best hours of TV -- let alone episodes of Star Trek -- I have ever seen.

Very few people care about it enough to even mention anything about it beyond "this was the ep that introduced the Cardassians." Some people who cross-pollinate between TNG and DS9 care about it as O'Brien backstory, but that's it.

Very much this. It really was a powerful episode.

I like that ep too. The only thing about I didn't care for was Keiko talking about eating "sea berries", which sounds like slang for fish shit.

"Masters of All Time"(from Danny Phantom) raises a lot of interesting questions. I once used to hate it because I thought it was a cop out that even in another time line Vlad was still evil and Jack was good...I expected an actual swap of roles. But looking back that is a pretty silly thing to expect. Character Consistency , younger self, character consistency.

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COPP and VEIL. The former has some of the finest colour imagery and the most unusual plot devices I have ever encountered. Plus, possibly the best female character in the whole of the canon.

As to the latter, I'm so utterly alone in liking it?? Possibly because it is a part of "Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Missing Fucks" and so constantly gets overlooked. Even so, I've seen people praise YELL (which is a part of the same collection) for its treatment of the race issue, but no one ever praises VEIL for how humane and emotional it is, for how much its events say about Holmes's character AND ACD's own feelings on the matter. And even the people who like Violet Hunter fail to notice Mrs. Ronder.

How I wish it were filmed at least once.

Holmes at the end of VEIL literally made my eyes well up. Dear man. A big reason why I assume anyone who can say he's cruel and cold hasn't actually read or paid attention to all the stories.

Same. Whenever someone wants to disprove Doyle's claim that Holmes is unemotional, they invariably bring up the flower monologue. And I mean, I like it, too, but did everyone miss that part where Holmes made an incredibly passionate speech that had most likely saved a person's life? And how he was proud of it and called her "brave"?

My feelings :')

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I know everyone rags on the recent Simpsons seasons (and, well, so do I) but "A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again" is one of my favorite Bart centric episodes and I'd probably even throw it in my top 10 favorite episodes. It's a very sweet episode and I think it gave Bart a lot of depth that we don't usually see from him (especially in the recent seasons which often tend to play up his more...sociopathic tendencies more than earlier seasons did). Ngl, I cry a little at the end every time

Babylon 5: Passing Through Gethsemene: A lot of people don't like it for the religious parts of the story. However, I think the story of forgiveness is really powerful. And the question of memory and culpability for things a person doesn't remember doing and was a different person when they did them is an interesting one.

I have always had a soft, perverse spot in my heart for this episode, (possibly for Spock's post-humiliation display of anger management; I think that's why I also love "This Side of Paradise.")

Hey! I like Plato's Stepchildren. I thought it was a fun episode.

*high fives*

(Now that I think of it, it certainly ... had some pretty kinky undertones for 1968. I still remember Philana becoming rather ... avid. :p)

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