YOUR Verdict on “Once, Upon Time” – Fluxed

It’s time to reveal DWTV’s poll results for the third episode of Series 13, “Once, Upon Time”, as voted for by you over the last week or so.

“Once, Upon Time”: 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 5.68. According to the Doctor Who TV score guide, this indicates the episode was generally considered to be in the “average” to “above average” range.
• “Average” isn’t an awful result on that term alone, but when we take into account the score in the wider context of the revival, it’s not good. In fact, a score this low means “Once, Upon Time” is now the 12th lowest rated episode of the whole revival (according to the DWTV ranking polls taken in 2018).
• More specifically, it is situated between “Evolution of the Daleks” (5.59) and “The Lazarus Experiment” (5.69).
• This is Chibnall’s 8th episode to make it into the bottom 20 so far.
• The standard deviation – which is our measure of how divisive an episode is – was 2.87. After a couple of weeks of slightly less polarising episodes, Series 13 has shot back up. In fact, this episode is now the 4th most divisive of the entire revival!
• Overall, after some improvement with Series 13’s first two episodes, this is a disappointing return to Chibnall era lows.

Series 13 Episode Ranking

So far, the Series 13 episode ranking looks like this:

• 1. “War of the Sontarans” – 7.06
• 2. “The Halloween Apocalypse” – 6.94
• 3. “Once, Upon Time” – 5.68
• 4. TBC
• 5. TBC
• 6. TBC

The series average after three episodes has now dropped to 6.56.

Conclusion

Join us next week when we examine the results of “Village of the Angels”, the fourth episode of Series 13. Hopefully with a much better result… Until then, keep voting!