Three Hugo nominations this year for short dramatic presentation (i.e., TV episodes). The three eps are “School Reunion” (the return of Sarah Jane Smith), “The Girl in the Fireplace” (the Doctor meets Madame de Pompadour), and the series finale two-parter “Army of Ghosts” + “Doomsday.”
Not sure I can wholeheartedly root for any of the above. The first ep is too backstory-driven, and while good is also nothing too spectacular aside from the nostalgia factor. I really didn’t care for the Pompadour ep all that much, all things considered (it suffered from “Protagonist falls far too quickly in love with someone you know is going to die before it’s all over” Syndrome). And while the season finale was spectacular and gut-wrenching at times, at other times it was … well, okay, maybe I can get behind that nomination.
(To my mind, though, the eps don’t hold up vs. last year’s nominations — “Fathers Day,” “Dalek,” and the Hugo winner two-parter “The Empty Child” and “The Doctor Dances.”)
Others on the voting form are Battlestar Galactica (“Downloaded“) and Stargate SG-1 (“200”).