YOUR Verdict on “Revolution of the Daleks” – Impure
It’s time to reveal DWTV’s poll results for the 2021 New Year’s special, “Revolution of the Daleks”, as voted for by you following broadcast.
“Revolution of the Daleks”: Score Breakdown
As always, we asked you to rate the episode on a scale from 1 to 10. We then took an average.
- A few thousand of you voted, and the average score was 5.98. According to the Doctor Who TV score guide, this indicates the episode was generally considered to be just shy of “above average”.
- This result leaves “Revolution of the Daleks” as the 22nd lowest rated episode of the whole revival (according to the DWTV ranking polls taken in 2018). More specifically, it is situated between “Nightmare in Silver” (5.99) and “The Long Game” (5.97).
- “Revolution of the Daleks” actually places lower than the last Dalek special “Resolution” (6.54). The score also makes it the third lowest of all revival Dalek stories, only narrowly surpassing “Victory of the Daleks,” and “Daleks in Manhattan”/ “Evolution of the Daleks”.
- The standard deviation – which is our measure for how divisive an episode is – was 2.68. We’re now 22 episodes in and the Chibnall era episodes continue to exhibit extremely high divisiveness, with voting all over the shop. This is not quite the worst we’ve seen though, as it’s only the 9th most divisive of his era thus far.
- Overall: After the “record-breaking” performance of “The Timeless Children”, this is a marginal improvement. It’s certainly not a good result, but for the Chibnall era some improvement is better than none.
Series 12 Episode Ranking
The complete Series 12 episode ranking, including the special, looks like this:
- 1. Fugitive of the Judoon – 8.01
- 2. The Haunting of Villa Diodati – 7.56
- 3. Spyfall, Part 1 – 7.43
- 4. Ascension of the Cybermen – 7.30
- 5. Spyfall, Part 2 – 7.01
- 6. Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror – 6.71
- 7. Revolution of the Daleks – 5.98
- 8. Can You Hear Me? – 5.94
- 9. The Timeless Children – 5.87
- 10. Praxeus – 5.43
- 11. Orphan 55 – 4.97
If we include “Revolution of the Daleks” into the Series 12 rankings, the series average would be 6.56 (down from 6.62 without the special). Whether you choose to include the special or not, Series 12 is still the lowest rated of the whole revival. The second lowest is Series 11 with an average score of 6.70, and the 3rd lowest is Series 2 with 6.98 (not counting specials).
Conclusion
Well that’s it for the episodic polls for a little while. Series 13 is currently scheduled for later this year, and we’ll be back for you to rate the new episodes then. Let’s hope things fare better! Until then, thanks for all your votes.
- See the results for Spyfall, Part One here.
- See the results for Spyfall, Part Two here.
- See the results for Orphan 55 here.
- See the results for Nikola Tesla’s Night of Terror here.
- See the results for Fugitive of the Judoon here.
- See the results for Praxeus here.
- See the results for Can You Hear Me? here.
- See the results for The Haunting of Villa Diodati here.
- See the results for Ascension of the Cybermen here.
- See the results for The Timeless Children here.
