Doctor Who: Top 5 Two-Parters And What Series 9 Can Learn From Them

5. The Time Of Angels/Flesh And Stone

A humdrum excursion to a museum exhibiting ancient artifacts from centuries untold is about to get a bit wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey. It€™s just one of those days when a scarlet-lipped, opulently-garbed psychopath flings herself into outer space, brings some friends along to excavate a wrecked spacecraft, and mentions that a few weeping angels might be concealed in the ship€™s detritus. Oh, and there€™s a dense forest thriving on starlight as well as a crack in the universe among the draping moss and living statue-infested foliage. This wild tale is surrounded by resplendent, innovative sets ranging from rock-strewn beaches to subterranean cathedrals. Weeping angels clutch at prey through television screens and entire armies of them flank dimly-lit, labyrinthine passages. Aside from the angels being reduced to neck-cracking murderers instead of cunning, time-zapping assassins, there isn€™t really much to gripe over€ except, perhaps, Amy€™s very *ahem* blatant insinuations directed at our innocent Time Lord. It all happened just a little too fast for the girl who waited. What Series 9 Can Learn From It: This pair of episodes is purely fun and exhilarating, never pausing to catch its breath before an unexpected twist is revealed. Then everything cartwheels into sudden mayhem, similar to an anti-gravity bubble exploding into orbs of staggering light, as the ceiling become the new floor. A two-parter that relies solely on fast-paced action and untamed imagination to culminate its plot would give the Doctor and Clara a much-deserved respite after having their brains steadily consumed by face-suckering dream crabs and learning that the dead can feel cremation -- just a 90-minute sequence of genuine, adrenaline-infused fun. These are their "glory years," after all.